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Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision

...Open University. Transcript Sir David Attenborough Interview 2015 Earth in Vision Project What first sparked your interest in the natural world? Finding fossils, I think, but then I don’t think that’s in the least remarkable, I don’t know any four-year-old who’s not interested in the natural world, I truly don’t. I think that every child starts with a...
Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective

...Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence. Extracts are taken from AA302 © 2006 The Open University. 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...
Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision

...opening shots of all the programmes that were done in those days, each of us introducing our programme, so I would introduce Zoo Time and he would introduce Zoo Quest and somebody else … Peter Scott would introduce something else. And they were put together in a series, each person saying ‘Hello’ and the weird thing was that our voices were completely...
A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp

...opened the door of heaven--what of it? And what, too, of that younger America, starting in its career with all our good things, and enfranchised of many of our evils? Did not the December sun now shining look down on thousands slaughtered at Fredericksburg, in a most mad, most incomprehensible quarrel? And is not the public air which European nations breathe at this...
Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...open the lid and look in a little bit you can see how complicated it is. I would like to think that images which were certainly basically gained from a large bit of the public purse, i.e. the BBC, I would like to think that they would release some of their archive for worthwhile causes, education worldwide, things like that, but when you release those images into the...
Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...opened his eyes deep underwater, his spine broken. “All I wanted to do was survive. I remember thinking, before I broke the surface, I can’t die here. If I do, nobody will know I didn’t want to die, that I’d made a mistake.” Kevin struggled to stay afloat while the coastguard came to his aid. He spent weeks recovering on a psychiatric ward and says it took years...
Data and processes in computing
Digital & Computing

Data and processes in computing

...source set rather than input set, and target set rather than output set. It is usual to include an identifier for the function itself in the signature. Suppose we call this function FIRSTCAP. Then its full signature is: FIRSTCAP: SeqOfChar → Char. SeqOfChar comprises all sequences of characters, and so includes some sequences that have no upper-case letters. The second...
Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Introduction to quantum computing
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to quantum computing

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course SM380 Quantum physics: fundamentals and applications...Quantum computing is a developing field with enormous potential societal and economic impact. In the future, quantum computers will enable us to solve a range of complex problems that are currently intractable, potentially revolutionising key...