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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...
Intermediate Italian: describing people
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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....
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...
Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change

...Open University Transcript Stories of Change Project Camille Parmesan interview Key RH: = Roger Harrabin, Interviewer CP: = Camille Parmesan, Professor, Oceans and Climate Change, Participant RH: OK Camille Parmesan, can you start with telling me how we’ve underestimated things? CP: Well, in past reports, past IPCC reports and the big event analyses that have been in...
The science of sperm
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of sperm

...Open University's Biology courses and qualifications THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS FRANK DISCUSSION OF SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE SCIENCE [Sperm] Although I'm a biologist, I rarely think much about what the cloudy white stuff contains, but in fact semen is far more complex than my endearing childhood image of mini tadpoles swimming around in thin wallpaper paste. There are many...
A visit to Ada Lovelace's memorial
History & The Arts

A visit to Ada Lovelace's memorial

...opening lines of one of the cantos of the poet's pilgramage? Is they face like thy mother's, my fair child! Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart? When last I saw thy blue eyes they smiled, And then we parted - not as now we part, But with a hope A hope never, alas!, realised; and in the concluding stanzas a strain of painful foreboding is accompanied with a tender...
Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America
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Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America

...Open conflict was only narrowly averted when a local Quaker official, none other than Benjamin Franklin, who later played a prominent role in the American Revolution, persuaded the marchers to back down (Dwyer-Ryan, 2013). What role did the Scots-Irish play in the American Revolution? Irish Presbyterians, who made up the bulk of the Scots-Irish population in Britain’s...
Cyfrifiannell Carbon Y Brifysgol Agored
Nature & Environment

Cyfrifiannell Carbon Y Brifysgol Agored

...a Materion Gwledig, 28 Mehefin. Roy, R. (2021) COP26 – Is 1.5 still alive? Design@Open blog, 20 Tachwedd. Ar-lein yn http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/design/cop26-is-1-5-still-alive/ Cyrchwyd 2 Awst 2022. Mwy gan OpenLearn Mae'r adnodd hwn yn rhan o'r casgliad Cefnogi gweithio hybrid a thrawsnewid digidol, a wnaed yn bosibl gan Gyngor Cyllido Addysg Uwch Cymru. [HEFCW logo]...