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Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess

...open sewer with a squashed cat and all this sort of detritus around the place. And there Hogarth is actually exposing these people - you know if you tear off their finery they'll be stinking and sweating and pissing just like the rest of us. And so what the Heath picture is doing is showing that things might appear to be clean and good on the outside but actually we've...
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...openness and transparency about who funds what research is deemed essential so that reviewers can take this into account when assessing whether a paper is suitably objective. Events in the MMR debate took an important turn on 22 February 2004 when the Sunday Times reported that Wakefield had secured £55 000 from the Legal Aid Board in 1996, two months before the study...
Ratio, proportion and percentages
Science, Maths & Technology

Ratio, proportion and percentages

...Open University warehouse take 20 minutes to stick labels on 500 packages for an MU120 mailing. There are still 4000 more packages. How many workers are required, if the job is to be done in about a further hour? Answer One worker should take twice as long as two. So 1 worker takes 40 mins for 500 labels. 4000 is 8 times 500 so 1 worker takes 40 × 8 min = 320 mins. 1...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Pain and Aspirin
Science, Maths & Technology

Pain and Aspirin

...Open University students who study the module that this course comes from. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Science...Pain and aspirin: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate general knowledge and understanding of some of the basic facts, concepts and principles relating to the development of medicines...
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Learning how to learn
Education & Development

Learning how to learn

...Education and Open University Press, Buckingham, 1996 A Guide to Learning Independently, by L. Marshall and F. Rowland, published by Open University Press, Buckingham, 1996 Calculating and Computing for Social Science and Arts Students, by R. Solomon and C. Winch, published by Open University Press, Buckingham, 1994...Learning how to learn: 10.2 Other sources of help -...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Beginners’ German: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ German: food and drink

...inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
Beginners’ German: Places and people
Languages

Beginners’ German: Places and people

...Open University course L193 Rundblick: beginners' German...Beginners' German: Places and people: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate knowledge of the singular forms of personal pronouns, singular forms of the regular verb kommen and generalisations using man use improved vocabulary and pronunciation related to place names,...
Picturing the family
History & The Arts

Picturing the family

...opened in Britain in 1841. During the first 20 years photographic portraits were bought as one-offs in the shape of the daguerreotype in the 1840s and the wet collodion positive in the 1850s. Both formats came cased or framed and were designed to be carried on the person or displayed in the home...Picturing the family: 2.1.1 Card mounted photographs 1860–c.1914 -...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs