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Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...physical, ecological, and human processes. Then it helps students critique the relative benefits of trying to prevent or respond to the environmental challenge of wildfires in the future...This course explores how environmental and social factors interact to cause wildfires and shows why these interactions need to be considered when preparing for future wildfires....
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Earth from above, 18th Century style
History & The Arts

Earth from above, 18th Century style

...physical attributes were a gift to satirists of the late eighteenth century, who riffed delightedly on the graphic and semantic associations of this new and somewhat unlikely technology. Furthermore, in the first few decades of ballooning, its utility was unclear. Although flight had been achieved, the power to navigate had not, so balloons could not be used as aerial...
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Article 5 mins
Leaving no stone unturned in the pursuit of female athletic performance
Health, Sports & Psychology

Leaving no stone unturned in the pursuit of female athletic performance

...physically and emotionally, the menstrual cycle can be divided into four distinct stages with each having significantly different hormonal profiles: The start of the cycle is known as the early follicular phase, when oestrogen and progesterone, the two main hormones of the cycle, are both low. The first day of the cycle is the first day of bleeding (known as the period or...
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Article 15 mins
Internet of everything
Digital & Computing

Internet of everything

...physical world can connect to the internet how the internet has already changed our lives where we (the people) fit in with the evolving internet where we (the people) fit in with the evolving internet. Before you start, The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations of the course. Your input will...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...physics, chemistry, engineering or a social science. Describe in words what the graphs in figures 1 and 2 below tell you, and comment on any features of the way that they are drawn, which you think are important. What does rate of change mean? Describe in words the following: y = 24x 2 + 2x - 3 Calculate [Figure 1] Figure 1 [Figure 2] Figure 2 Answer For the purposes of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The author at home
History & The Arts

The author at home

...physical encounter with the author’s body. So the writer’s house museum generally tries to make it possible for us to feel as though the writer is still ‘at home’. Some of the ways of doing this are very familiar and feel natural. The writer’s desk is key – here’s Dylan Thomas’s, complete with coffee cup and crumpled up paper as though he had just popped...
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Video 5 mins
The rural dimension – rundale in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

The rural dimension – rundale in the West of Ireland

...physical factors, but as a result of wider social processes involving landlords, governments and the economic system. There are, of course, small farms all over the world, and in many parts of Europe and Britain as well as all over Ireland. In that sense, what we see in the West of Ireland is part of a widespread distribution of this system of agriculture. It is the...
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Article 5 mins
The Social and Discursive Construction of Disability
Society, Politics & Law

The Social and Discursive Construction of Disability

...physical, sensory, learning difficulties, mental health issues, chronic illness etc., but if given the right support and if society were more inclusive, the experience of disability would dissipate. Furthermore, disability is argued as a form of oppression, or socially imposed restriction. [Disabled People's Equality - art by Stephen Lee Hodgkins] Disabled People's...
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Article 5 mins