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The Open University Worldwide
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The Open University Worldwide

...world’s largest universities. Through a pioneering teaching method called supported open learning, students can study for a recognised degree at a distance. Flexible and accessible education programmes enable students to transform their lives. Teaching at the Open University Open University course materials anticipate any issues students may encounter and include a...
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Climate change in the global South: Bangladesh and Senegal
Nature & Environment

Climate change in the global South: Bangladesh and Senegal

...world will be able to evade the consequences of anthropogenic climate change; in other words, climate change that is caused by human activities such as greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, the energy industry and motor transport. The countries of the tropics will be among the first to be affected. Already, there is evidence that tropical countries are beginning to...
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Esports: an introduction to the industry
Science, Maths & Technology

Esports: an introduction to the industry

...World Championships hosted by Atari. In 1990, Nintendo’s World Championships brought further attention to competitive gaming, but it was the growth of PC and online gaming in the late 1990s and early 2000s that truly transformed esports. Esports popular games such as StarCraft, Counter-Strike and Quake started international tournaments, while the rise of broadband...
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Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion

...world is always changing around us. If we want to understand how, we need to think about how we understand. Elizabeth Silva explains why methods do not only describe the world, they build it...[The Women's March on Portland, 22-01-17] Methods are ways of knowing, and they are always changing. Academics have recently become highly methodologically creative, inventing a...
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Fifty years of BBC broadcasting about environmental change issues
Society, Politics & Law

Fifty years of BBC broadcasting about environmental change issues

...world. Philip talks excitedly about ‘the electronic eyes and ears of these rockets’, and he notes that ‘Since the beginning of time the world has never been seen as a planet.’ The IGY, and the broadcasting around it, set in train a new understanding of planet Earth as an integrated system, and also of threats to that system generated by humanity. But it’s...
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Early reflections from Glasgow on COP26
Nature & Environment

Early reflections from Glasgow on COP26

...World Leaders Summit at the start of COP26 is inspirational and electrifying. It provides a much-needed shot in the arm to the COVID-delayed multilateral process of sorting out the details of the UNFCCC process (including the Meeting of the Parties for the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreements, the Subsidiary Bodies). Truly pan-Global World Leaders Summits (not just...
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The first geological map of the UK
History & The Arts

The first geological map of the UK

...world. The iconic map, which is still used as the basis of geological maps to this day, had the greatest influence on the science of geology, inspiring a generation of naturalists and fledgling geologists to establish geology as a coherent, robust and important science. The map was so large, that, for practicality's sake, it was often sold in 15 separate sheets, either...
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John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation
Science, Maths & Technology

John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation

...World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. - A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace John Perry Barlow, Davos, Switzerland February 8, 1996 John Perry Barlow had many careers –...
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