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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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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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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
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
Intermediate Italian: describing people
Languages

Intermediate Italian: describing people

...licenses/ by-nc-nd/ 2.0/ Figure 14: Natalia Ginsburg/Getty Images Figure 15: © Anna Motzo 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
Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...resource for research into ways to combat a deliberate release of smallpox virus – assuming that samples have been (or could be) obtained by terrorist groups. Mathematical models of how smallpox might spread through a population have been constructed, and the effects of vaccinating people with vaccinia either before or after a theoretical exposure have also been...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
The Life of Saint Patrick
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint Patrick

...educated many children whom he trained up to serve at the altar. He always gave till he had no more to bestow, and rejoiced to see himself poor, with Jesus Christ, knowing poverty and afflictions to be more profitable to him than riches and pleasures. The happy success of his labours cost him many persecutions." Saint Patrick's trials and tribulations in Ireland "A...
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