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The Rise of Museums
History & The Arts

The Rise of Museums

...to be seen. References J. V. Pickstone, Ways of Knowing, Manchester University Press (2000) Sharon Macdonald, editorial, Science as Culture vol 5 (1992) Susan Sheets-Pyenson, Cathedrals of Science, McGill Queens University Press (1988) The Natural History Museum The British Museum The BBC and the Open University are not responsible for the content of external websites....
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Getting started with a Password Manager
Digital & Computing

Getting started with a Password Manager

...opening your web browser. Here I am using Google’s Chrome browser, but all modern browsers are supported. Now go to www.lastpass.com – you should see a page like this: [Screengrab as described in the text] The easiest way of using LastPass on a desktop machine is to add it to your web browser, so scroll down to the bottom of the home page. On the right-hand side of...
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28 July 2005: 4 o'clock and all is well
OpenLearn Ireland

28 July 2005: 4 o'clock and all is well

...opened a path to the restoration of the Stormont Executive, and to the once unthinkable government of Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness as First and deputy First Minister. That year, the loyalist organisations declared ends to their wars and, eventually, moved to decommission arms - a plan and process that was almost derailed because of dissident republican killings in...
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How to manage the digital-related stress of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to manage the digital-related stress of technology

...Smartphones and cognition: A review of research exploring the links between mobile technology habits and cognitive functioning. Frontiers in psychology, 8, 605. This resource is part of the 'Wellbeing and Mental Health Collection' created by the Open University in Wales. You can learn more and find courses, articles and other activities on the collection's homepage....
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Fossil evidence for evolution
History & The Arts

Fossil evidence for evolution

...Open University, for example, painstakingly collected and studied some 15,000 trilobite fossils through approximately two million years' worth of muddy sediments that had accumulated in what was then a deep subsiding marine basin in mid-Wales. In each of eight different lineages, he was able to demonstrate gradual transitions between different species going up through the...
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Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology
Society, Politics & Law

Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology

...openness, transparency and the uncertainties around scientific knowledge. The stress was now on how a ‘crisis of trust’ required a new era of dialogue between scientists, experts, policy makers and the public and the modality switched from ‘pubic understanding of’ to ‘public engagement with’ science. A more recent approach to constitute a ‘healthy public’...
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What is Planetary Protection?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is Planetary Protection?

...open document in front of him. This is then passed to the United Kingdom representative, and then the representative from the U.S.S.R. The men stand and shake hands with one another, to applause from an audience (not visible). [The wording of Article 9 of the Outer Space Treaty]Article IX of the Outer Space Treaty, which underpins Planetary Protection principlesShow...
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How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?

...opened from the coast to the interior by early explorers, settlers and military men. One appealing notion is that the founder was a tropeiro, one of a band of travelling traders who journeyed by mule between the scattered settlements, carrying goods and gossip and mail in the 17th and 18th centuries. Away from home most of the time, a tropeiro would likely have had a...
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