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Environment: journeys through a changing world
Nature & Environment

Environment: journeys through a changing world

...introduction to this album Conservation for Whom? How locals and gorillas can inhabit the forest in harmony. Conservationists describe the down-side of the Fortress Conservation and the benefits of Integrated Conservation Development. Gorilla Tourism Adaptive Management. Conservation workers describe how revenue trickles down to communities via job creation, extra trade,...
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Audio 1 hr 1 min
Living in a globalised world
Society, Politics & Law

Living in a globalised world

...introduction to this album. Where worlds meet An insight into Mexican-American border control. A divided people A Mexican tribal leader talks about how the border has physically divided his tribe. Borders do move An insight into how the Mexican border with America has shifted over the years. The economic divide A presbyterian minister from Arizona talks about how an...
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Audio 1 hr 26 mins
Building on History: The Church in London
History & The Arts

Building on History: The Church in London

...project between The Open University, King’s College London, the Diocese of London and Lambeth Palace Library. The project aims to give participants within the diocese an archived insight to historical research in order to understand how the church has responded to societal change in the last two centuries and to create space for fresh historical enquires in order to...
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Video 9 mins
The business of film
History & The Arts

The business of film

...manage complexity. A film is one of those projects where anything can and usually does go wrong. Video 1 Bharat talks about the cost and complexity of film production This week will provide more information about jobs within numerous production departments. Making a film takes a lot of work, and there are a lot of moving parts. It can only be completed through the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Rings and polynomials
Science, Maths & Technology

Rings and polynomials

...introduction to rings and polynomials. We see that polynomial rings have many properties in common with the integers; for example, we can define a division algorithm, and this enables us to develop the analogue of the highest common factor for two polynomials. Section 1 explores the abstract definitions of a ring and a field. Sections 2 and 3 define polynomial rings where...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Rotating Bodies and Angular Momentum
Science, Maths & Technology

Rotating Bodies and Angular Momentum

...introduction to this album. Torque and Momentum An introduction to rotating bodies, focusing on baton twirling. Sport scientist Dave Cogner explains the relationship between torque and angular momentum. Spinning on Ice A look at how ice skaters can control and change the speed of spinning, with relation to body mass and axis of rotation. Diving Angular momentum in Diving...
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Audio 26 mins
How has Teddy Kinyanjui taken plastic out of reforestation?
Nature & Environment

How has Teddy Kinyanjui taken plastic out of reforestation?

...project’s initiation in 2016, about one million seeds of different species of certified indigenous trees have been dispersed throughout Kenya through partnerships with locals and with a germination rate of 60 per cent. “People use charcoal every day, necessitating for more trees. Climate change has also caused community conflicts, especially among pastoralists in...
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Article 5 mins