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Daisy Main
Miscellaneous

Daisy Main

...English literature,’ she enthused. It was starting that degree in 2024 that prompted Daisy to visit OpenLearn, and as she explains, ‘It has been invaluable to me. My favourite courses - ‘Language in the real world’ and ‘Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials’ - actually prepared me for my degree’s content!’ She even completed an...
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Light: Wave-particle duality
Science, Maths & Technology

Light: Wave-particle duality

...English polymath Thomas Young in the early 1800s: [Thomas Young wave diffraction experiment] Thomas Young's sketch of two-slit diffraction of waves, 1803 When he wasn’t busy helping to translate the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone, investigating elasticity, describing how colour vision works, or proposing a new universal phonetic alphabet, Young was experimenting with...
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...English people were importunate for dramatic entertainments. The court took offence easily at political allusions, and attempted to suppress them. The Puritans, a growing and energetic party, and the religious among the Anglican church, would suppress them. But the people wanted them. Inn-yards, houses without roofs, and extemporaneous enclosures at country fairs, were...
The mother of the American Athens
History & The Arts

The mother of the American Athens

...English inn, such as I did not so nearly realize anywhere else. The ideal was a little impaired by the electric light in our bedrooms, but it was not a very brilliant electric light, and there was a damp cold in the corridors which allowed no doubt of its genuineness. In the dining-room, which was also the reading-room, there was an admirable image of a fire in the grate,...
Who makes the difficult decisions about children’s treatment?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Who makes the difficult decisions about children’s treatment?

...everyday routine medical practice. In fact understanding children’s rights and assessing capacity to make decisions is relevant to the practice of all professionals working with children. Each profession should have guidelines to help them make the right decisions with children ensuring their rights are respected. What about the parents? Parents will nearly always be...
The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: The Volkswagen Scandal
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: The Volkswagen Scandal

...everyday drink products. Paul Levy investigates this issue in his article in The Conversation “Toxic innovation: Volkswagen is the tip of a destructive iceberg”. Just as significant have been questions regarding what this means for the company’s corporate governance. A crucial defect of Volkswagen, it is widely argued, is that its corporate structure is closed...
Investigating environmental futures through speculative design
Society, Politics & Law

Investigating environmental futures through speculative design

...Everyday Futures Network at the Industrial Design Department of Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. The workshop brought together academics and designers from various disciplines to explore how ‘thinking through making’ might allow us to investigate potential future ways of life that are more responsive to contemporary social and environmental...
Your journey of learning and discovery with us
Education & Development

Your journey of learning and discovery with us

...Everyday computer skills: developed in partnership with LEAD to equip people with the skills and knowledge they need to get started in a digital world. Essential skills for online learning: this resource, developed by The University of Manchester Library, will help you to develop skills to get the most out of being an online learner. Accessibility While all OpenLearn...