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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....
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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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Article 10 mins
Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...education service in the early 1950s. My birth certificate from Ghana’s capital, Accra, has the words ‘Gold Coast’ crossed out in several places and Ghana handwritten in ink above it. Follow the money, as the saying goes. That golden thread of whiteness breaks, unexpectedly, when I complete the ‘place of birth’ part of the application form to register for a PhD...
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Video 30 mins
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...
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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...
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Article 15 mins
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...
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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...
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Article 5 mins