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Can Space Technologies solve the Sustainable Development Goals?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can Space Technologies solve the Sustainable Development Goals?

...World Space Week Poster] World Space Week poster available on their site for download Along with other space technologies, satellites are being used globally to improve lives through the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). So, I've decided to grapple with the question: Can Space Technologies Solve the SDGs? Before answering this question, it is useful to...
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Article 15 mins
Non-existent countries
Society, Politics & Law

Non-existent countries

...world divided by national borders is unsettled and contested. He draws attention to the ways in which fixed borders and national flags are continually subverted by competing identities, uneven mobilities, the effects of power and ‘a world of flows’. To find out more, the OU’s Andy Morris interviewed Nick Middleton about his book ‘An Atlas of Countries that Don't...
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Languages and Employability
Languages

Languages and Employability

...video a collection of employers and employees outline the benefits that language skills bring to their companies and careers. There is a lot more to language skills than just learning to speak fluently. Inter-cultural communication skills open doors to other cultures and communities, and gives you experience of the world that goes deeper than the average tourist trip....
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Video 4 mins
Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision

...world, and the box office success of River Monsters. ...Harry Marshall Harry is the Creative Director of Icon Films – a long established award-winning, UK independent production company. Over the last 25 years Icon Films has produced over 290 hours of high-end factual content for the international market. Harry was born and spent his childhood in India, where he has...
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Video 30 mins
Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...world – not least because of the variety of geographical, social, political and historical contexts – you are encouraged to think geographically and make links between the different places visited in the International virtual field trip. [The map of the world showing the route travelled as part of the Global South international field trip.] Key questions Why it is...
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How is nylon made?
Science, Maths & Technology

How is nylon made?

...World War, as well as nylon stockings and toothbrushes. It’s a strong synthetic fibre, which resists abrasion. Nylon doesn’t shrink or stretch through washing, but it is degraded by ultraviolet light. Nylon is made when the appropriate monomers (the chemical building blocks which make up polymers) are combined to form a long chain via a condensation polymerisation...
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Cider with Rosie
History & The Arts

Cider with Rosie

...World War, is set in the tiny Cotswold village of Slad. Family friends and local historians will testify that Lee was not always strictly faithful to the literal truth in the book, blending fact with fiction in his wistful elegy to a disappeared rural world. Nevertheless, these intoxicating and poetic descriptions of youth capture the essence of a life lived one hundred...
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History How-to videos: Crash sites
History & The Arts

History How-to videos: Crash sites

...World War plane crashes aren't just of historical interest - they may also be graveyards or bomb sites. How should you approach them?...Video Text The number of crashed planes across the whole of the UK is really extraordinary. Almost four thousand went down on training flights during the course of World War II. That’s a lot of planes, and for every crash site there’s...
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