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How can the Hajj be made safer?
History & The Arts

How can the Hajj be made safer?

...sources, more than £200bn spent since 1992 on redesigning the infrastructure of the Hajj, which involves events at several sites in and around the city of Mecca. One key way that organisers plan for the safety of crowd events such as the Hajj, but also parades, carnivals and sporting competitions, is by using computer simulations to model large groups of people. [The...
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St David’s Day and the role of the crowd in perceptions of Welsh musical identity
History & The Arts

St David’s Day and the role of the crowd in perceptions of Welsh musical identity

...Open University Music academics, Emeritus Professor Trevor Herbert and Drs Helen Barlow and Martin Clarke are currently co-editing The Cambridge History of Welsh Music, which will be the first major academic study of Welsh music history. Drawing together the work of twelve leading scholars, it will examine Welsh music and musical life from the earliest medieval sources...
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12 famous Confucius quotes on education and learning
Education & Development

12 famous Confucius quotes on education and learning

...Open University Childhood and Youth Studies qualification. Born in 551 BC, Confucius was a Chinese teacher and philosopher whose principles can still be applied to Chinese beliefs and traditions today, as well as philosophy across the globe. Take a look at twelve of the most famous quotes attributed to Confucius below and pick your favourite. The quotes have been taken...
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Understanding economic inequality
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding economic inequality

...Open University course DD126 Economics in context...Understanding economic inequality: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand what economic inequality is know what determines economic inequality understand why inequality matters for society know some of the proposed solutions to inequality understand some of the measures of...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Herbal medicine
Health, Sports & Psychology

Herbal medicine

...sources. [Calder Bendle] Within different cultures herbal medicines have been used in different ways. In Britain, until relatively recent times, there were folk healers with a reputation for curing particular complaints. These people often learned their skill from their parents and would typically only use a small number of plants and would only claim to be able to help...
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Maintaining social order with gruesome images of Hell
History & The Arts

Maintaining social order with gruesome images of Hell

...Open University, explains the meaning of a fresco in the church of Kitiros in Crete...Long before Dan Brown's "Inferno" fresco painters on the island of Crete attempted to create their vision of Hell. New research sheds light on how these images helped to maintain social order. The frescoes pictured damnation and torture, but employed a touch of modern advertising...
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The sound of silence
Science, Maths & Technology

The sound of silence

...forms part of The Open University course MU120 Open mathematics... The sound of silence introduction An introduction to The Sound of Silence Waves and harmonics Understand how a musical note is made up by plotting amplitude against time. Recreating sounds We take a trip to the Anglia polytechnic university of music theory to see if we can recreate the sound of a saxophone...
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The Politics of Participation
Society, Politics & Law

The Politics of Participation

...Open University's Professor Michael Saward is joined by his colleagues Paul Lewis and Richard Heffernan along with Sarah Childs (Professor of Politics and Gender at Bristol University), to discuss the politics of participation, with reference to the 2010 general election in the UK... The Politics of Participation Why do people choose to vote, or indeed, not to vote? The...
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