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Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour
Digital & Computing

Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour

...open expression online, free of the mediation of journalists – were at the heart of the wave of attacks in Paris. As events unfolded, witnesses reflexively got out their cellphones and shot live coverage of what was happening before their eyes. These amateur images were then relayed by media both online and on TV. Thus the first images of the Bataclan attack, filmed...
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Article 10 mins
Women lead the struggle at Rolls-Royce on Clydeside, 1955
Society, Politics & Law

Women lead the struggle at Rolls-Royce on Clydeside, 1955

...Open University's History and Social Sciences courses. Background On Tuesday 25 October 1955, members of the General Iron Fitters Association at Rolls-Royce in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, took unofficial strike action. By Thursday 27 October, workers in various unions at other Rolls-Royce plants in the west of Scotland, at East Kilbride and Hillington, had joined them (BBC...
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Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...from Davis, R. W. (1999) Science, vol. 283, copyright © 1999 American Association for the Advancement of Science. 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...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Additive manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Additive manufacturing

...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....
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
The mother of the American Athens
History & The Arts

The mother of the American Athens

...open at the hour which the genteeler commerce of the place found so indiscreet. They were irregular spaces of a form in keeping with the general shambling and shapeless character of the town, which, once for all, I must own was not an impressive place. The best thing in it, and the thing you are always coming back to, is the beautiful church, to which we paid a second...
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Eutrophication
Nature & Environment

Eutrophication

...and welands for wastewater treatment; Figure 4.6 Pisces Conservation Limited. Courtesy of the Environment Agency; 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...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Impossible Peace 2: The murders at Massereene
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The murders at Massereene

...resources - reviewing operations - is part and parcel of what goes on here, part of the security task and job. "That's what we do all the time," the Chief Constable said. "That's what I'm paid to do." Right now, all of that will happen on a daily - indeed hourly - basis. It was happening before the Craigavon shooting. The dissidents have now killed a police officer and...
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Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...Open University course (AA308) that is no longer available. The content has been used as the basis for a section of Part 1 of the MA in Philosophy (A853) qualification. Tell us what you think! We’d love to hear from you to help us improve our free learning offering through OpenLearn by filling out this short survey...Introducing consciousness: Learning outcomes - After...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs