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Retrofitting older buildings to help mitigate the climate emergency
Nature & Environment

Retrofitting older buildings to help mitigate the climate emergency

...Open University, I did modules on the challenges of climate change and the need to take action in all sectors, including for buildings. I, therefore, decided that I wanted to do a PhD on a topic that had direct practical relevance to the climate crisis, in the hope that I could make a useful contribution. My research is investigating ways to reduce carbon emissions from...
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Design from the inside
Science, Maths & Technology

Design from the inside

...Open University, we are exploring the mechanical behaviour of honeycombs, a type of cellular structure defined according to geometric two-dimensional patterns. Our research is exploring the relationship between the geometry of the patterns and the resulting mechanical behaviour, measured according to Young’s modulus and Poisson’s ratio, see Figure 2. We plot this...
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Christmas at war: 1915 - A wish deferred
History & The Arts

Christmas at war: 1915 - A wish deferred

...open to them. It is not going too far to say that the Stock Exchange has purged itself for ever of the charge of being mainly devoted to Mammon, and that no body in the kingdom has evinced a more unselfish and fervent spirit of loyalty and has more justified its faith by works. The Stock Exchange, however, though it may have been more severely hit by the war than most...
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Stoke-on-Trent, where they’re loving angels instead...
History & The Arts

Stoke-on-Trent, where they’re loving angels instead...

...Open University. Here you will be able to view archive images of Spiritualism in Stoke-on-Trent, listen to stories about what it’s like to live with angels and spirits in everyday life, and look at our Spirit Trail which maps all the sites that have been registered for Spiritualist worship and services across the city since 1870. You may be surprised at what a magical...
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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

...opener about the state of the weather is invariably followed by the comment that it wasn’t predicted correctly. Yet anecdotal evidence is misleading. The “skill” of a weather forecast is determined by measuring the correlation between a forecast weather map and what actually happened. This can be judged against the skill of a forecast based on statistical summaries...
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From ‘refrigerator mothers’ to paracetamol: why harmful autism myths are so common
Health, Sports & Psychology

From ‘refrigerator mothers’ to paracetamol: why harmful autism myths are so common

...O'Dell, Professor of critical developmental psychology, The Open University; Charlotte Brownlow, Professor of Psychology, School of Psychology and Wellbeing, University of Southern Queensland, and Sandra Thom-Jones, Honorary Professor, University of Wollongong This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article....
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Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology
History & The Arts

Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology

...openness. Bibliography Asad, T. (1973) ‘Introduction’ in Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter, Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press. Barofsky, R. (2020) ‘Rethinking Ethnography: A Study in Public Anthropology’, Anthropology Today, 36(5): pp. 1-2. Harvey, G. (2020) ‘Trans-Indigenous Festivals: Democracy and Emplacement’ in Pike, S.M., Salomonsen, J. and...
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Murals in Belfast
OpenLearn Ireland

Murals in Belfast

...may evolve rather than disappear, not the least because they are an increasingly popular tourist attraction. This article is an adapted extract from the free course 'Political Ordering', which is adapted from the Open University course Introducing the social sciences (DD102). Mural photographs © Bill Royston Painting from the Same Palette © Mark Ervine and Danny Devenny...
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