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Rounding and estimation
Science, Maths & Technology

Rounding and estimation

...source of drinking water is a wrecked ship's full water tank. It measures 4 metres long by 3.45 metres wide and is 2.84 metres high. Use reasonable rounded values to make an estimate (without using your calculator) of how long you can survive until it rains, assuming that you need 2 litres per day and that the water remains perfectly fresh. You may need the conversion 1...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...Open University Transcript Stories of Change Project Benny Peiser interview Key RH: = Roger Harrabin, interviewer BP: = Dr Benny Peiser, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, participant RH: Dr Peiser, thank you very much for agreeing to be interviewed by us for the BBC documentaries and the Open University. Can I start with the first question that we’re asking all of...
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Inheritance of characters
Science, Maths & Technology

Inheritance of characters

...sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been 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...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
What was Lewis Carroll like?
History & The Arts

What was Lewis Carroll like?

...open that there was no room in them for self-consciousness, and I have often heard him jest at his own misfortune, with a comic wonder at it. The personal characteristic that you would notice most on meeting Lewis Carroll was his extreme shyness. With children, of course, he was not nearly so reserved, but in the society of people of maturer age he was almost...
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Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...Open University Transcript Stories of Change project Thomas Stocker interview Key RH : = Roger Harrabin, Interviewer TS: = Professor Thomas Stocker Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Scientist, Participant RH: This is for the BBC and Open University, all our interviews start with the same question; when did you first get interested in energy? TS: I got...
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Paul Williams - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Paul Williams - Earth in Vision

...opening up the BBC's digital archive...Paul Williams Paul Williams is a wildlife photographer, and a producer at the BBC Natural History Unit. Born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, Paul's interest in the natural world started at a young age. He found his first fossil on a beach when he was 8 years old, and from that moment he was hooked. At University Paul studied...
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Wales and rugby
Society, Politics & Law

Wales and rugby

...opened in 1999 and the Wales Millennium Centre (where the Welsh National Opera is based) in 2004, and the Encyclopaedia of Wales was published in 2007. Crucially, the first members of the National Assembly for Wales (NAW) were elected in 1999 – since when we have seen the development of a raft of Welsh policies and bodies, in both the government and civil society. These...
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Murals in Belfast
OpenLearn Ireland

Murals in Belfast

...Open University book which says that history’s like looking in a rear-view mirror: you have to look where you came from, but if you don’t keep your eyes on the road ahead you’re not going anywhere. It’s colourful, it’s vibrant, it’s thoughtful, and what is not apparent when you just look at it, but when you’re told the story becomes very important about the...
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