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Why is discovering gravitational waves from a neutron star collision a big deal?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why is discovering gravitational waves from a neutron star collision a big deal?

...energy in a fraction of a second than the sun will pump out in ten billion years. For several decades we have observed these gamma ray bursts, but without knowing for sure what causes them. However, just 1.7 seconds after the gravitational waves from GW170817 arrived at the Earth, NASA’s Fermi satellite observed a short burst of gamma rays in the same general region of...
Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future
Nature & Environment

Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future

...energy, where you get your food, or how you recycle waste). Small changes in your daily lifestyle can have a big impact. After all, it will all come down to each and every one of us to do our bit, for a better world. Useful links Floodplain Meadows Partnership U116: Environment: journeys through a changing world Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous...
Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation
Nature & Environment

Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation

...energy that produces carbon dioxide), their advert ought to be commended for drawing attention to the catastrophe that is unfolding. By squashing the Iceland advert, Clearcast is playing into the political agenda of palm oil producers. Their businesses are thereby shielded from scrutiny and from public awareness preventing the public to choose alternative products. [Trump...
Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...energy to avoid climate change, and the Lukewarmers are saying, ‘Well, maybe we don’t need to avoid that much of it. Maybe in fact some degree of warming will be beneficial for us, it’ll encourage the growth of plants, for instance, with the extra CO2.’ TE: It’s interesting. A lot of what we aim to do with climate change of course comes down to our values. Do we...
52 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

52 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...Solar System in our The Magic of Meteorites hub. …And finally, for those of you with a dirty mind, we'll let you know our free course with the most hilarious title. Who says toilet humour isn’t funny?! May we introduce you to Analysing Skid Marks? Unfortunately this course was deleted on 11th January 2019 but the content still lives on in part (like one of Voldemort's...
60 second adventures in microgravity
Science, Maths & Technology

60 second adventures in microgravity

...in it. This means these experiments are helping us to understand how life originated here on Earth, and the potential for life to survive elsewhere in our Solar System and beyond. A live Facebook Q&A We also ran a Facebook Live event, demonstrating how microgravity research helps scientific research and allowing people to join ask questions. You can watch it again below....
53 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Education & Development

53 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...Solar System in our The Magic of Meteorites hub. In our FREE course 'Astronomy with an online telescope', you get to use The Open University’s own robotic telescope facility COAST sited on the island of Tenerife. How cool is that? …And finally, for those of you with a dirty mind, we'll let you know our free course with the most hilarious title. Who says toilet humour...
Developing your skills as an HR professional
Money & Business

Developing your skills as an HR professional

...energies towards those things which matter most, rather than those which matter less. Cameron (2008) gives this advice: Direct your time appropriately i.e. towards the things which are most important. Direct your energy efficiently i.e. maximise your achievements for time and energy expended. Stop wasting time. (Cameron, 2008, p. 89) Long hours and intensification of work...