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What is Planetary Protection?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is Planetary Protection?

...open document in front of him. This is then passed to the United Kingdom representative, and then the representative from the U.S.S.R. The men stand and shake hands with one another, to applause from an audience (not visible). [The wording of Article 9 of the Outer Space Treaty]Article IX of the Outer Space Treaty, which underpins Planetary Protection principlesShow...
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Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited
OpenLearn Ireland

Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited

...opener, ‘Kickback City’, Gallagher perfectly captures the gritty urban environment of the hardboiled novel with his calculated realism about the corruption and misery of Kickback City – a place so soulless that it could ‘take a child’s smile and turn it into stone’. This is followed by ‘Loanshark Blues’, which was inspired by the 1954 Marlon Brandon movie...
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Five missing kings and queens – and where we might find them
History & The Arts

Five missing kings and queens – and where we might find them

...opened and, although carbon dating failed, isotopic tests confirmed that the remains were indeed Eadgyth’s. But what’s puzzling is that not all of Eadgyth was actually in the lead casket: her hands and feet were nowhere to be found and most of the skull was missing. What happened to these? Experts at the time of the exhumation suggested that thieves had struck in...
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How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?

...opened from the coast to the interior by early explorers, settlers and military men. One appealing notion is that the founder was a tropeiro, one of a band of travelling traders who journeyed by mule between the scattered settlements, carrying goods and gossip and mail in the 17th and 18th centuries. Away from home most of the time, a tropeiro would likely have had a...
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The Bletchley Park connection
History & The Arts

The Bletchley Park connection

...Open University. I’m at the Bletchley Park museum, a few miles from the Open University’s headquarters in Milton Keynes. It was here, during the Second World War, that the Allies broke many crucial enemy codes, changing the course of twentieth-century history in the process. The Second World War was a radio war; and deciphering the enemy’s encrypted radio messages...
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Beginners’ French: A trip to Avignon
Languages

Beginners’ French: A trip to Avignon

...this? Browse through our host of free course materials on LearningSpace. 3. Or browse more topics on OpenLearn. 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 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Cultures
Languages

Cultures

...open in a separate window...Cultures: Conclusion - This free course provided an introduction to studying Languages. It took you through a series of exercises designed to develop your approach to study and learning at a distance, and helped to improve your confidence as an independent learner...Cultures: Keep on learning - Study another free course There are more than 800...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...open crystals and glasses formed from inorganic compounds, distortions of the crystal structure can accommodate some of the increase in average spacing. Consequently these materials show rather lower expansion coefficients α – compare soda glass, porcelain and silica with the metals in Table 4. And there are ways of otherwise coping with thermal expansion. See Box 3...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs