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The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses
Society, Politics & Law

The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses

...course, be expected to make efficiency savings by sharing resources, something that has been shown to work effectively in the past. For example, earlier this year Warwickshire and West Mercia Police began sharing IT and training resources – and even responding to calls in each other’s localities – with great success. Osborne has said that revisions to OBR forecasts...
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Modelling the planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling the planets

...Open University's Science courses and qualifications. Astrobiology isn’t a subject on the school curriculum or even in many universities. Could you tell me something about your journey to astrobiology? It was a long journey. A very long journey indeed! I was always fascinated by rocks and minerals, how they formed and how they behaved, so I studied mineralogy at...
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How can the Hajj be made safer?
History & The Arts

How can the Hajj be made safer?

...open. This is particularly important due to the variety of rituals the pilgrimage involves. A model that treats the crowd as a homogeneous entity also can’t explain how large groups of people will try to stick together within a moving crowd, separating themselves from other groups and creating mass contraflows. We should be wary of relying exclusively on computer...
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Are women under-represented at tech accelerators?
Money & Business

Are women under-represented at tech accelerators?

...open to all”. The well-rehearsed counter-argument to this imbalance is that this is merely a reflection of engineering and technology entrepreneurship – women just don’t feature prominently in the industry and the numbers in accelerator programmes reflects this. The evidence, however, indicates that within Europe women own around 15% of all science engineering and...
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Urbanism in Blade Runner
Science, Maths & Technology

Urbanism in Blade Runner

...open air markets and restaurants. Freeways are conspicuously absent and the streets are for pedestrians only. Granted, cars fly through the sky instead of on the ground and it’s hard to call a city laden with toxic waste and murderous robots walkable, but it’s still a far cry from the sprawling, car-centric Los Angeles we know today. The city as a machine Blade Runner...
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St David’s Day and the role of the crowd in perceptions of Welsh musical identity
History & The Arts

St David’s Day and the role of the crowd in perceptions of Welsh musical identity

...Open University Music academics, Emeritus Professor Trevor Herbert and Drs Helen Barlow and Martin Clarke are currently co-editing The Cambridge History of Welsh Music, which will be the first major academic study of Welsh music history. Drawing together the work of twelve leading scholars, it will examine Welsh music and musical life from the earliest medieval sources...
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Time to look again at HIV and relationships
Health, Sports & Psychology

Time to look again at HIV and relationships

...open about their experiences. With a recent survey by the National AIDS Trust suggesting that more than half of the UK public did not believe U=U was true, there is a long way to go. Reducing the stigma of HIV is an important step if we are to achieve the goal of zero new transmissions in the UK by 2030 or globally. So, this World AIDS Day why not take some time to see...
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Nine top tips on talking about sex… for young people with a life-limiting or life-threatening condition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Nine top tips on talking about sex… for young people with a life-limiting or life-threatening condition

...by The Open University and Mencap. 2021 'Talking about Sex: Young people speak out'. 2020 'Talking about Sex: A booklet for young people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions and their carers'. 2019 Guidance and Standards 'Talking about sex, sexuality and relationships: For those working with young people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions'....
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