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Mathemateg bob dydd 2
Science, Maths & Technology

Mathemateg bob dydd 2

...Education 338, cangen addysgol The Exilarch’s Foundation. Ysgrifennwyd y cwrs hwn, sydd am ddim, gan Kerry Lloyd, Frances Hughes a Tracy Mitchell yng Ngholeg Cambria, mewn partneriaeth ag Addysg Oedolion Cymru, Coleg Gwent, Grŵp Coleg Castell-nedd Port Talbot a’r Brifysgol Agored, ac mewn cydweithrediad ag Joanne Davies, West Herts College, gan ddefnyddio deunyddiau...
Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...open landscape appears very much as a flat backdrop. Despite its grim subject, the painting has a certain picturesque appeal, thanks to the exotic costumes, light tonality, vivid colours and loose handling of paint. Overall, it can be said that this work retains the ambitions of a history painting but breaks with the aesthetic and moral idealism traditionally expected of...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Climate change: References - Edwards, P. N. and Schneider, S. H. (2001) Self-governance and peer review in science-for-policy: the case of the IPCC Second Assessment Report, in Miller, C. and Edwards, P. N. (eds) Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and...
Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake
Science, Maths & Technology

Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake

...resources that are available in our own system from the asteroids and things like that. Dallas Campbell: But even if we hadn’t obviously, you know, despite what people may think they see or believe happens we have, you know, other civilisations haven’t come here. Why haven’t we been able to detect them? I mean, forget about space travel but … Frank Drake: Why...
What is a scientific model?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a scientific model?

...open up the model, okay, so what it’s showing me here is you can see here that it’s showing me that field size has a positive influence on skylark numbers. The bigger the field size, the more skylarks there are. And it’s also showing me that there’s in effect a crop type there. It’s showing me that spring cereals here have more skylarks in them than winter...
Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?

...open and unhealed, bacteria move in. Even when this doesn’t result in an overt infection, a thin layer of bacteria can create a biofilm that covers the sore. Large groups of biofilm bacteria coat themselves in sugars and other barriers that keep antibiotics from killing them off. Biofilms, along with dead tissue, mean that even the most advanced wound treatments won’t...
Why I believe 'yes' is only a matter of time
Society, Politics & Law

Why I believe 'yes' is only a matter of time

...You’ve just returned from a lecture tour in the USA and back here at the Open University we heard that you kicked up a storm. What is it about the Scottish Independence Referendum that caught people’s imagination in the United States? Gerry Mooney: Well, can I start by blaming Mel Gibson, yes, and you obviously have an Australian connection, so you’ve probably got some idea why I’m criticising Mel Gibson, because ......
The Seasons in Art
History & The Arts

The Seasons in Art

...Open University, and I’m ending my little series of films about the seasons in art by considering spring. And the only possible place to start is with Sandro Botticelli’s Primavera, painted in Florence around 1480, surely the most famous picture of spring in western art. Although there’s been a huge amount of debate about exactly what exactly it depicts, It clearly...