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Economic incentives for countries to decarbonise
Money & Business

Economic incentives for countries to decarbonise

...works. We don’t have perfect foresight, or complete understanding. We often don’t even behave rationally! In the real world there are inefficiencies (e.g. unemployment) and these can be reduced through government action, for instance by incentivising new green industries. New ‘simulation-based’ approaches do not assume optimisation or equilibrium, but instead...
Hitching a ride on an asteroid to travel back to the birth of the Solar System
Science, Maths & Technology

Hitching a ride on an asteroid to travel back to the birth of the Solar System

...work out its chemical composition and when it formed. All of these factors are useful in figuring out the origin of rocks. But without knowing exactly where the rock came from, would you have a complete picture about its 4.5-billion-year history? Could you tell if it was a piece of a much larger geological structure, or whether instead, it was a rare type of rock in the...
Blood, bruises and belief: how England’s women’s rugby team embody physical and mental endurance
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blood, bruises and belief: how England’s women’s rugby team embody physical and mental endurance

...working to keep the foundations solid. None of this happens by accident. It’s the result of years of sustained investment in the women’s game: not just in players, but in the infrastructure around them. Since 2009, nearly £50 million in National Lottery funding has gone into girls’ and women’s rugby. The Impact 25 legacy programme – World Rugby’s initiative...
The OU meets Pink Floyd
History & The Arts

The OU meets Pink Floyd

...work and I can hear myself absolutely speeding up beyond belief. SEAN Really? NICK You know, the track starts at one speed and ends up flat out. It’s almost as though it’s a race. SEAN Any particular tracks you care to mention? NICK No, I’m certainly not going to. END OF INTERVIEW Image acknowledgements for the audio stills 00:00 - 00:09: Image of Nick Mason -...
Mosquitoes & Malaria
Science, Maths & Technology

Mosquitoes & Malaria

...works. Ellen will need to cover one of Kate’s arms with the repellent and leave the other arm clear, so she can show that only the arm without the repellent gets bitten. But that leaves another problem, mosquitoes carry diseases that they pick up from biting other people, so Ellen needs to raise mosquitoes from birth that haven’t bitten anybody yet and so will be...
Is it ever morally acceptable to visit a mass murder site?
History & The Arts

Is it ever morally acceptable to visit a mass murder site?

...Far from being pristine and rational, actual psychologies are messy, which puts a limit on the extent to which morality can be straightened out. Thinking about what you think of the two tours might help you work out on which side of this divide you fall. Find out more on why people celebrate Jack the Ripper Interested in Philosophy? Try our interactives and free course...
Spiritualism, stigma and prejudice: what is everyone so scared of?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Spiritualism, stigma and prejudice: what is everyone so scared of?

...work quite happily as a nurse, a fire-fighter, or a teacher. A growing religion Spiritualism as a religion started in the United States in the late 1840s. The first Spiritualist church in the UK opened in 1853 in Keighley, Yorkshire, with the first UK national conference of Spiritualists taking place in Manchester in 1890. Although a relatively young religion,...
The first 25 years: OU Renewable Energy Education
Nature & Environment

The first 25 years: OU Renewable Energy Education

...Energy Course, if so we would love to know whether you went onto working in renewables. We would also like to hear from you as we are hoping to celebrate 25 years of OU Renewable Education, if you would like to get in touch, please email us using OU-Alumni-Renewables-25-STEM@open.ac.uk [Screenshot of animation for COP26] Click on the banner to explore the COP26 hub...