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A tour of the cell
Science, Maths & Technology

A tour of the cell

...Open University course S294 Cell biology...A tour of the cell: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: list the main components of cells summarise the structure and function of the different components outline how cell ultrastructure is related to cell function identify cell organelles and the main cytoskeletal components in diagrams and EM...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Studying mammals: A winning design
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: A winning design

...sources, i.e. from the immediate environment. Suppose an ectotherm - say a small lizard - is placed in a small container in which the air temperature can be varied (a useful alternative term for the temperature 'outside' is ambient temperature, Ta). The temperature of the animal's body (Tb) can be measured while we change Ta, via a miniature temperature-measuring probe...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The life of Mama Elouise Edwards
History & The Arts

The life of Mama Elouise Edwards

...2017 Elouise retires to her beloved Guyana 2021 In January, Elouise dies in her homeland, aged 88 years Web links and sources Arawak Walton Housing Cariocca Enterprises Louise Da-Cocodia Betty Luckham Olive Morris: Google Doodle: Who was Olive Morris? First Cut Media, Oral History Project (2014) Beresford Edwards 1930-2003: Reflecting on his life in Manchester, UK...
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Video 15 mins
The science of sperm
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of sperm

...Open University's Biology courses and qualifications THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS FRANK DISCUSSION OF SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE SCIENCE [Sperm] Although I'm a biologist, I rarely think much about what the cloudy white stuff contains, but in fact semen is far more complex than my endearing childhood image of mini tadpoles swimming around in thin wallpaper paste. There are many...
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Article 15 mins
A visit to Ada Lovelace's memorial
History & The Arts

A visit to Ada Lovelace's memorial

...opening lines of one of the cantos of the poet's pilgramage? Is they face like thy mother's, my fair child! Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart? When last I saw thy blue eyes they smiled, And then we parted - not as now we part, But with a hope A hope never, alas!, realised; and in the concluding stanzas a strain of painful foreboding is accompanied with a tender...
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Article 10 mins
Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes
History & The Arts

Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes

...Sex beyond the genitalia: The human brain mosaic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(50), 15468-15473. Jordan-Young, R. M., 2010. Brain storm: The flaws in the science of sex differences. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. This article was written with expert input from Joseph de Lappe, research student at The Open University. More on superheroes...
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Article 15 mins
Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America

...Open conflict was only narrowly averted when a local Quaker official, none other than Benjamin Franklin, who later played a prominent role in the American Revolution, persuaded the marchers to back down (Dwyer-Ryan, 2013). What role did the Scots-Irish play in the American Revolution? Irish Presbyterians, who made up the bulk of the Scots-Irish population in Britain’s...
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Article 5 mins
Cyfrifiannell Carbon Y Brifysgol Agored
Nature & Environment

Cyfrifiannell Carbon Y Brifysgol Agored

...a Materion Gwledig, 28 Mehefin. Roy, R. (2021) COP26 – Is 1.5 still alive? Design@Open blog, 20 Tachwedd. Ar-lein yn http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/design/cop26-is-1-5-still-alive/ Cyrchwyd 2 Awst 2022. Mwy gan OpenLearn Mae'r adnodd hwn yn rhan o'r casgliad Cefnogi gweithio hybrid a thrawsnewid digidol, a wnaed yn bosibl gan Gyngor Cyllido Addysg Uwch Cymru. [HEFCW logo]...
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