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Selective laser melting (SLM)
Science, Maths & Technology

Selective laser melting (SLM)

...systems, unmelted material is not lost and can generally be reused. Furthermore, because the layer height is defined by the amount the build chamber is lowered, the layers can be very small, resulting in very fine feature resolution...[Images to demonstrate 'Selective laser melting (SLM)' -see article ] Manufacture: The main heat sources are as follows: Lasers are the...
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The Labour Party purges
Society, Politics & Law

The Labour Party purges

...think they are missing a nuance there.” Marienna Pope-Wiedemann, another rejectee, is a freelance writer and producer who was also politically active as a student and has continued activities outside Labour. But she is no longer in anything else and, as she points out, being active outside Labour is rather inevitable: “most people are active through organisations...
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George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...system in which order is imposed on the population through ideological manipulation and the systematic use of state terror. A totalitarian state is a one-party state in which dissent is ruthlessly suppressed. The term has been used to describe both Hitler's Germany (a fascist totalitarian state) and Stalin's Soviet Union (a communist totalitarian state). In an era of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
How was the US election viewed in the Middle East
Society, Politics & Law

How was the US election viewed in the Middle East

...think he will be a disaster for the US, and they think the American system is utterly corrupt, and deserves him. 5) There are mixed feelings about Obama While the most common attitude among Palestinians seems to be that Obama has been the same as all presidents before him, I did come across a view on both sides of the divide that differed a little from this: one man in...
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Voices from the Global South: confronting climate coloniality
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: confronting climate coloniality

...systems, alongside hierarchies of power relations that persist. Transcript. Decolonising to reimagine better futures We need to reimagine better futures. What I found in observing these films is that some of these voices do help us think about how this is possible and rethink what’s at stake and what are the challenges we need to recognise and confront. Transcript....
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Innovation Design: Sustainable Communities
Science, Maths & Technology

Innovation Design: Sustainable Communities

...think that living an "alternative" lifestyle has to mean painful and radical changes to the way you live now. This album looks at various small scale initiatives which show that living sustainably may not be as unpalatable as you might imagine. Bedzed, Findhorn, Hockerton, Samsoe Island; these are all decentralised communities at the forefront of a major social and...
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Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation

...thinking about how pitch systems are organised more globally...Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation: 6 Frequency and note identity - Western musicians often assign specific frequencies to the notes of the gamut. In the most widely used system for allocating frequencies, the A below middle C vibrates at 220 hertz, or 220 vibrations per second. Table 1 lays...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The fascination with crime
Science, Maths & Technology

The fascination with crime

...systems: making sense of complexity... The fascination with crime An introduction to this album. The notion of crime Open University criminology lecturer Louise Westmarland shares her interest and knowledge of criminology, justice and crime. Crime fiction versus crime reality Why are we so obsessed with crime fiction? Two novelists of the genre offer us an insight and...
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