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Design from the inside
Science, Maths & Technology

Design from the inside

...account of the redesign of the partitions in the cabin of the Airbus A320 using a cellular structure, which increases the strength-to-weight ratio significantly, allowing the partitions to be manufactured from less material. This resulted in a reduction of 45% in component weight, and it is reported that if this change was introduced throughout the fleet, there would be a...
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Medicine in ancient Greece and Rome
Health, Sports & Psychology

Medicine in ancient Greece and Rome

...account for the continuing popularity of the Greek spas. Excavations of Roman towns and military forts have uncovered baths and flushing toilets. A good water supply was provided via aqueducts, although the extent to which these were associated with hygiene, in our sense of the word, remains a topic of academic debate. The first buildings for housing the sick were the...
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Making young children give everything to football is a bad idea – here’s why
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making young children give everything to football is a bad idea – here’s why

...in this way are surely more likely to end up with the better players in the long run. The UK has long had a reputation for producing very few top players from club academies. If Euro 2016 ends up being another campaign where England falls short, it needs to take this into account. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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A hard day at the Met Office: The BBC look for a change in the weather
History & The Arts

A hard day at the Met Office: The BBC look for a change in the weather

...account for local factors, such as hills and valleys. For UK forecasts, a large-scale model of the North Atlantic and a still smaller-scale model of the UK and Ireland alone can be embedded into the global picture, each working down to finer scales. Other meteorological services can run similar local-area models focused on the UK, but it is not a trivial task and requires...
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From Pakistan to Britain: Identity and Belonging
Society, Politics & Law

From Pakistan to Britain: Identity and Belonging

...account or her experiences as a migrant from Pakistan who has now lived in Britain for over twenty years…...Twenty-one years ago, I came to Britain from Pakistan to start a new life. I had some ideas about this country through reading novels and hearing stories of ex-pats. Great Britain, in my mind, was always associated with the British Raj. The Raj has left a profound...
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How to start a course
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How to start a course

...account, you can browse the hundreds of courses available of OpenLearn and select one that you interested in studying. Open the course and click on the enrol button. You will receive an email saying you are enrolled on that particular course. The starting point is the Introduction, under 'Course content'. You then navigate through the course either using the left hand...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...account in it. It had become, by all causes, a national interest,--by no means conspicuous, so that some great scholar would have thought of treating it in an English history,--but not a whit less considerable, because it was cheap, and of no account, like a baker's-shop. The best proof of its vitality is the crowd of writers which suddenly broke into this field; Kyd,...
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Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...account of his visit to the home of William Herschel, also a musician and composer, and his sister Caroline. The Herschels were to become the greatest astronomical observers of the time. On 15th June I went from Windsor to (Slough?) to Doctor Herschel where I saw the great telescope. It is 40 feet long and 5 feet in diameter. The machinery is very big, but so ingenious...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs