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The Legacy of Nuclear Power, Part 2
Society, Politics & Law

The Legacy of Nuclear Power, Part 2

...think you are making a very strong point at the end of your book when you take a critical, when you are critical of the currently favoured approach to dealing with nuclear waste, which is deep geological disposal and you are kind of advocating a slightly more short-term perspective, as you’ve just said. Andrew Blowers: Well let me say when I wrote the policy, which the...
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The banking crisis: cause and effect
Money & Business

The banking crisis: cause and effect

...system. The aftermath of the worst financial crisis since the 1930s saw economic activity slump. In the UK, higher unemployment, falling house prices and a sharp increase in government debt proved to be the alarming legacy of the near implosion of the banking system. This fascinating insight into the downfall of the global financial markets gives us a clear understanding...
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‘Lydios logos’: the story of Croesus
History & The Arts

‘Lydios logos’: the story of Croesus

...Think about the extent to which Herodotus deserves his title ‘father of history’...We have selected the Croesus story from Herodotus Book 1 chapter 6 - 95 as the basis for this intermediate activity in the OpenLearn Herodotus Collection. Our aim is to help you start enquiring into how the Herodotus narrative is linked with places in the Classical world and later...
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Bill Hare - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill Hare - Stories of Change

...thinking in those days?’ Are you happy for all those things? BH: I’m happy! RH: OK. So we’re starting all the interviews with the question, when did you first get interested in energy? BH: I guess in the mid-1980s I got interested in the issues to do with energy and climate actually, I was already became aware as a consequence of a US Department of Energy...
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How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?

...systems with drugs leaves cancer cells with no way of repairing DNA damage, so they die. Transcript As we’ve written about on the Cancer Research UK blog, this idea forms the basis of an entirely new class of drugs for treating cancer, known as PARP inhibitors. PARP – or poly-ADP ribose polymerase, to give it its full name – is a protein found in all our cells, and...
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Assistive technologies and online learning
Education & Development

Assistive technologies and online learning

...thinking about how assistive technology can facilitate access to learning resources or teaching material, the focus is on providing access to technologies that will bridge the ‘access gap’ between the teaching material and the student. The material itself may not have to be altered if appropriate assistive technologies can be utilised. For students in further and...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
The Borders of Astrobiology
Science, Maths & Technology

The Borders of Astrobiology

...think we are from showing the space environment humility and respect? Should we be confident/positive about the future of space governance? [Portrait of Andrea Owe]Andrea Owe, environmental philosopher with the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute: The short answer is, quite far. It depends, of course, on who you ask – who is ‘we’? In the end, however, what matters in...
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Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer
Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...system at MIT’s Lincoln Lab (Mindell 2008) and this is where she became interested in and learned much about the reliability of software (Spicer 2017), being able to make a previously inoperative radar system actually work. As Hamilton said: “I was and still am very interested in what causes errors and how to avoid them throughout. That was one of my very first...
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