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Revealing the surface of an asteroid using robotic telescopes
Science, Maths & Technology

Revealing the surface of an asteroid using robotic telescopes

...Open University we are looking at asteroids with the OpenScience Observatories to study their rotation and surface. To understand the conditions present in the early solar system, we must study the remnants of its formation. By studying the dynamical and physical properties of the asteroidal bodies we see today, we can trace back their evolution to better understand the...
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Ten top tips for writing a novel
History & The Arts

Ten top tips for writing a novel

...Open University's English courses [A cat looking at a laptop ] Just do it. Forget about procrastination. The time is now. Write early in the morning, before you have time to distract yourself with self-doubt and Twitter. Write the first thing that comes into your head, and don’t stop for at least 20 minutes. After that, you are more likely to carry on. Then do the same...
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How does online intergroup contact compare with face-to-face?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How does online intergroup contact compare with face-to-face?

...Open University's Psychology courses and qualifications. In 1954, Gordon Allport, a Harvard academic published ‘The Nature of Prejudice’. In one of the thirty-one chapters, he discussed how prejudice between groups might be reduced simply by intergroup contact – provided certain conditions were met. This became known as the contact hypothesis and has become one of...
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The trouble with teaching physics
Health, Sports & Psychology

The trouble with teaching physics

...Open University's Psychology courses and qualifications. Misconceptions about physics Teaching is not as simple as presenting students with facts to memorise. Students have their own ideas about the world based on their everyday experiences. For example, students sometimes mistakenly think that light and electricity flow like water or that cold is not the absence of heat,...
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Race and place
History & The Arts

Race and place

...opens then snaps shut incredulous yet too polite to say outright liar she tries another manoeuvre ‘And you parents?’ ‘Glasgow and Fife.’ ‘Oh?’ ‘Yes. Oh?’ Snookered she wonders where she should go from here – ‘Ah, but you're not pure’ ‘Pure? Pure what. ‘Pure white? Ugh. What a plight Pure? Sure I'm pure I'm rare …’ ‘Well, that's not exactly...
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Getting started on classical Latin
History & The Arts

Getting started on classical Latin

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses. Course image: The Roman poet Virgil depicted in a fifth century CE manuscript (the Vergilius Romanus) of his poetical works, the Eclogues. Biblioteca Apostolica, Vatican City. Photo: © The Art Archive/Alamy. Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Researching Antarctic ice sheets
Nature & Environment

Researching Antarctic ice sheets

...Open University. Thank you for reading my first article here on OpenLearn. I’m part of a team of British and French scientists with a new study published in Nature about Antarctic ice sheet instability. Here is a Guardian article I wrote as an introduction to our work. I also recorded a video explaining our focus on Antarctica and the uncertainty surrounding the impact...
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60 second adventures in microgravity
Science, Maths & Technology

60 second adventures in microgravity

...Open University's Science courses. Why do astronauts float on the space station? Contrary to popular belief, it isn't because there's no gravity. The gravitational pull of the Earth is almost as strong in the orbit of the International Space Station as it is on you as you read this. Astronauts are experiencing weightlessness because they are in a microgravity environment....
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