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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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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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People, automobiles and statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

People, automobiles and statistics

...open the doors, to get in and out, to get a comfortable driving position, to get a view of the road. And as you are aware we’re in an enclosed laboratory but up against the wall we’ve got our driving simulator and when people are sat in a car or a model of a car and they look forward in the windscreen and they do see something that feels very realistic and it really...
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The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...for and against this idea. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A333 Key questions in philosophy...The moral equality of combatants: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the Jus ad Bellum / Jus in Bello distinction and be able to understand why it might need to be qualified understand and take a view on the idea of the moral equality ......
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...Open University call ‘legacy interviews’, long-form interviews, in which we talk to key players round the world on energy at some length about what got them interested in it and we probe solutions and problems a little more deeply. The idea is that they will remain on a special website with the Open University for scholars in the future, wondering, ‘What were they...
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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...
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Video 1 hr 40 mins
Advanced German: Fragen der Identität
Languages

Advanced German: Fragen der Identität

...Open University course L333 German studies 3....Advanced German: Fragen der Identität: Einleitung - In diesem kurzen Kurs geht es um Identität und um die Frage, welchen Einfluss unser Umfeld auf uns hat. Wie wird unsere Identität durch unsere Herkunft und unseren Lebensraum geprägt? Was verstehen wir unter Heimat? Und wie ist es mit Personen, die sich durch Migration...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...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 people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs