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Europe’s Borders in Question
Society, Politics & Law

Europe’s Borders in Question

...work. With EU member states unwilling to be the one that gets ‘stuck’ with migrants on their territory, the drive is for Europe’s borders to be pushed further outwards. Rather than risk a ‘limbo’ situation where migrants become trapped in the frontline states of Greece, Bulgaria, Italy and Spain, or worse, further inland, better to shift the line between inside...
How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?
Nature & Environment

How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?

...working. On the other hand, organisations that act to curb digital emissions now, set themselves on a better trajectory to achieving and maintaining NetZero strategies as digital continues to become more pervasive. What can corporates do to tackle digital carbon footprints? The path towards managing and reducing digital carbon footprints is one that requires changes in...
Mizuki Shigeru: An appreciation
History & The Arts

Mizuki Shigeru: An appreciation

...work for the rest of his life. After surviving the war and being demobilized in 1945, like millions of other returning soldiers, the one-armed Mizuki struggled to find a way to make living in rural Tottori Prefecture. He would go on to become a best-selling author, publishing hundreds of books. Thanks to the inspiration of Non Non Ba and other sources, Mizuki Shigeru drew...
Stefan Szymanski on the business of football
Money & Business

Stefan Szymanski on the business of football

...works ­– in order to be understood. [A diagram showing the correlation between average league position and wage expenditure relative to the average for the Premier League and Championship Teams 2003-2012] Figure 1 The football business market: Players and clubs We can observe that clubs compete aggressively to hire players – there is an active transfer market with...
Pain and Aspirin
Science, Maths & Technology

Pain and Aspirin

...work. Drugs such as aspirin act at the site of the injury to stop or at least reduce the production of messenger chemicals that stimulate the nerve endings. Another class of drugs, the opiates such as codeine and morphine, act on the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). Sometimes, the aspirin-like and codeine/morphine-like drugs are combined into one remedy,...
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Energy resources: solar energy
Nature & Environment

Energy resources: solar energy

...social needs fast enough to avoid the likelihood of future global warming and other kinds of pollution. One of the alternative sources to consider is solar energy. The Sun will radiate energy until it ceases thermonuclear fusion, in around 5 billion years. About 33% of the solar power that enters the Earth's system heats the atmosphere and contributes to setting winds and...
Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Getting started on ancient Greek
History & The Arts

Getting started on ancient Greek

...work best for you. Here are a few tips: Aim for a mixture of reading, speaking and writing. You might prefer one of these but it is important to try all three. Speaking and writing will be introduced in Sessions 2 and 3 of the course. A few regular short practice sessions of around 20-25 minutes are likely to be more productive than the occasional long session. Be patient...
Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom
Society, Politics & Law

Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom

...Working with sensitive topics. Sensitive topic This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course W250 Evidence law...Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain the rules for admissibility and presentation of expert evidence describe the duties and...