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How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?

...sources and much, much more. Whatever the cause, this damage must be repaired in order for cells to carry on functioning properly. On the whole, our cells are exceptionally good at this and, for most of our lives, things usually go according to plan. But if mistakes are made, bad things can happen – bad things like cancer. Poorly repaired DNA damage can cause changes in...
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Yachts, planes and buses... Mind the (inequality) gap
Society, Politics & Law

Yachts, planes and buses... Mind the (inequality) gap

...Source: Sunday Times Rich List) YEAR COLLECTIVE WEALTH 1997 £98 billion 2008 £413 billion 2010 £336 billion 2012 £414 billion 2013 £450 billion 2014 £519 billion Important as it is, depicting wealth is one thing, but explaining it and making sense of why there is such growing inequality on a global scale is another. For Oxfam a key factor is tax evasion. Oxfam...
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Should we read John Locke today?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...Source of Entry: Collection of Sir Robert Walpole, Houghton Hall, 1779.]John Locke (pictured left) was an English philosopher, educator and political writer. Over the course of an eventful life he lived through the English Civil Wars, the violent overthrows of two kings (Charles I and James II) and the rapid expansion of English colonialism and slave-trading across the...
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Speeches and speech-making
History & The Arts

Speeches and speech-making

...though, are more likely to refer to original writings as ‘documents’ or ‘sources’. In both areas, ‘text’ refers to something written, and this is often, though by no means always, the case. So let us try coming at the issue from a different angle and ask what counts as a text in relation to different academic subjects. The most inclusive approach I can think of is that of the anthropologist Clifford Geertz, who ......
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...Open University course L161 Exploring languages and cultures...Exploring languages and cultures: Learning outcomes - After studying this course you should be able to: explain what intercultural encounters are and how people can learn from them discuss how the use of English as a lingua franca is perceived by native and non-native English speakers illustrate how different...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...open to examining your views and to considering the evidence behind new developments. Section 1 considers the nature of knowledge. Section 2 focuses on learning and some of the main theories of learning. Section 3 considers the implications of these ideas for teaching and pedagogy. This course is generic and is designed for people who are learning to be a teacher, are in...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...Open University Transcript Stories of Change Project Professor Lord Nicholas Stern interview Key RH: = Roger Harrabin interviewer NS: = Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, Economist, and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the LSE, participant RH: Nick Stern, Lord Stern, thank you very much for agreeing to be interviewed for the OU...
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Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...open the issue of how to interpret or explain those ‘facts’. An alternative starting point is to examine how poverty is socially constructed as a problem – to scrutinise ‘what everybody knows’, alongside public, political and policy definitions of the problem and to disentangle the constructions that we find. This means that the practice of social science...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs