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What is Blockchain?
Digital & Computing

What is Blockchain?

...one vote’. In this way, a blockchain can act as a provenance protocol for sharing data across disparate semi-trusting organisations. An overview of OU research on blockchain can be found at this link. Click here to download the video transcript (PDF) This article is adapted from an OpenLearn Create course under a Creative Commons license. Visit the original course....
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Exploring the depth of the Antarctic ice sheet...
Nature & Environment

Exploring the depth of the Antarctic ice sheet...

...data but the information gained is limited as the technology is yet to be developed to look beyond the thick ice. In this project, the aim is to use computer model and sophisticated statistical methods using the available observational information from a variety of sources to infer ice sheet interaction and stability. Further, future projections of the contribution of...
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Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...analysis of the causes, implications and responses to issues of common concern...Urban processes are increasingly held to be responsible for causing a variety of problems environmental destruction, social injustice, global financial instability. They are also identified as harbouring the potential to meet these challenges through urban experiments in sustainable living,...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Why EU nationals in Britain are hurrying to get one piece of paper
Society, Politics & Law

Why EU nationals in Britain are hurrying to get one piece of paper

...Data from before the referendum showed a rise in applications. During the first two quarters of 2016, official data showed that the government received 64,282 valid applications by citizens of the European Economic Area (which includes EU countries as well as Norway, Iceland and Liechenstein) looking for a document certifying their permanent resident. It’s not possible...
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Exploring comets: A short introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring comets: A short introduction

...data on the interplay between the solar wind and the comet’s atmosphere. ICE subsequently joined a fleet of two Soviet, two Japanese and one European Space Agency probe that studied Halley’s comet in 1986. ESA’s mission, Giotto, was the best equipped. It got to within nearly 600km, and sent back the first close-up pictures of a comet’s nucleus. The most...
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A hard day at the Met Office: The BBC look for a change in the weather
History & The Arts

A hard day at the Met Office: The BBC look for a change in the weather

...data provider a good idea? [The Met Office, Exeter] Sunny for now... The Met Office HQ in Exeter The Met Office has its origins in a service for mariners, set up in 1854 under the leadership of Robert FitzRoy, who had previously captained HMS Beagle on Darwin’s famous voyage. The organisation developed as part of the Ministry of Defence, with an important role to play...
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The oceans
Science, Maths & Technology

The oceans

...data in this data set. [Described image] Figure 2 Monthly mean atmospheric temperatures for Bergen, Norway and Halifax, Nova Scotia. What are the main differences between the atmospheric temperature cycles of Halifax and Bergen? Halifax is warmer than Bergen in summer, but colder in winter. The range between the maximum and minimum temperatures is also different; in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...data here, or you can base your calculation on your own experience of renting or owning a home. Now compare the cost of the same sort of dinner in a city within a low-income country (for example, Awassa in Ethiopia). You may have to do some additional online research to find approximate values for the same set of ingredients as you used for your initial analysis. Don’t...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs