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What is Planetary Protection?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is Planetary Protection?

...humanity is alone in the Universe has been asked for millennia, but the answer remains elusive. This is despite the objectives of many past, current and future space exploration missions to find evidence of past (extinct) or present (extant) life. But as our understanding of life on Earth improves and we expand the range of extra-terrestrial environments we explore with...
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Expert insight: Amazonian challenges and policy responses
Nature & Environment

Expert insight: Amazonian challenges and policy responses

...resources in more detail. Read about the interdependencies of these resources, and the effects of the actions taken by man. Is it too late to reverse the decline? What does the Amazon System need to do in order to continue surviving? Find out more about The Open University’s involvement in Project COBRA, which focuses on increasing confidence across indigenous...
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Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?

...human welfare as it is for dogs.” This is part of an ongoing – and some say uphill – battle to eliminate rabies from India. Around 59,000 people die from rabies every year, according to a 2015 study published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. The overwhelming majority are in Asia and Africa: India alone accounts for 20,847 deaths, more than one-third of the...
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Five reasons why you should care about mindfulness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five reasons why you should care about mindfulness

...human condition includes pain, it is unavoidable, but the mind and body don’t have to just instinctively react to painful experiences. Mindfulness is a skill that allows us to be less responsive to what is happening in the present moment. It is a way of relating our experiences (positive, negative and neutral) in a particular way, so that our overall suffering is...
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Co-production – challenges and opportunities for the Higher Education curriculum
Health, Sports & Psychology

Co-production – challenges and opportunities for the Higher Education curriculum

...Resources are recommended at the end for wider reading about the purpose and value of co-production. The focus of this article is on applying principles that challenge conventional academic processes and promote collaboration and equal knowledge to enhance the quality of teaching and learning. Co-production in social work education Social work education has pioneered the...
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How do you know you are in a smart city?
Society, Politics & Law

How do you know you are in a smart city?

Integrated urban technology is less apparent when it is functioning well says, Gillian Rose, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford...Recorded at The Open University for BBC Radio 4's sociological discussion programme, Thinking Allowed. Transcript
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60 second adventures in economics: Rational Choice Theory
Society, Politics & Law

60 second adventures in economics: Rational Choice Theory

...humans are a rational lot. When the price of something rises people will supply more of it – and buy less of it. If they expect inflation to go up – people will usually ask for higher wages – (though they might not get them) And if they can see interest or exchange rates falling in one country, people with lots of money there will try to move it out, faster than you...
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