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Issues in women’s football
Health, Sports & Psychology

Issues in women’s football

...Transcript The 2015 Women's World Cup Steph and Carrie discuss Carrie’s research into the women’s World Cup using the 2015 tournament in Canada as a case study. Transcript These three audios are taken from the free OpenLearn course, The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide. The course discusses both the men’s and the women’s World Cups in detail....
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Engineering small worlds: micro and nano technologies
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering small worlds: micro and nano technologies

...probe microscopy use different types of tip to create atomic resolution images. Semiconductor Industry Imaging large samples. How to get precise dimensions of any surface. The AFM uses specially designed tips that are replaced automatically. Life Science Applications Cancer Research. Looking at materials under fluid. Force Distance Spectroscopy explained and demonstrated....
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Investigating bacterial communication
Science, Maths & Technology

Investigating bacterial communication

...research is bacterial communication. Signal molecules Quorum sensing is the process by which bacteria seem to communicate with each other and make decisions to behave en masse. The game of Risk as an analogue for the battles that go on within the body between pathogens and the body's defences A new approach to antibiotics? Exploring the possiblility of developing new...
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Can comedy change your life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can comedy change your life?

...researchers who say that comedy can change how we think and even how we act...Find out more about The Open University's Psychology courses Maeve Higgins once set herself a task. The Irish-born comedian wanted to see what life would be like if she stopped laughing at things that weren’t funny. Turns out it wasn’t as easy as she thought. “It was so effing hard,” she...
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You and your world: Introducing the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

You and your world: Introducing the social sciences

...research also aims to be evidence based – drawing on reliable, careful research rather than assumptions, common-sense or guesswork. [Prehistoric cave painting, including human hands.] For this reason, social scientists are deliberate about the kinds of questions they ask, and how they go about trying to answer them. Three basic foundations of social science thinking...
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Why could phosphorus depletion leave us all hungry?
Society, Politics & Law

Why could phosphorus depletion leave us all hungry?

...research fellow with the Stockholm Environment Institute in Sweden, explained at the conference. “We are locked in to using phosphorus [in agriculture]. The question now is who will have most of it and how efficiently will it be utilised? There are already one billion people in the world who are hungry. It could be two or three billion by 2050 and I don’t see that as...
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How are Ethiopian coffee growers responding to climate change?
Science, Maths & Technology

How are Ethiopian coffee growers responding to climate change?

...Researchers and policymakers should also map out the human, social and ecological conditions that may allow such expansion, according to Wandiga. Also, farmers should slowly substitute coffee with other plants that may bring income. William Ndegwa, Kitui County director at the Kenya Meteorological Department, says the model used in the research is a powerful tool for...
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Using data visualisation to track climate change
Nature & Environment

Using data visualisation to track climate change

...research team to develop the tool, says in the released statement, “The (I)NDCs are a cornerstone for implementing the Paris Agreement. But apart from countries’ overall mitigation targets, the content of (intended) nationally determined contributions has been unclear – until now.” Kennedy Mbeva, a research fellow at the ACTS, says their aim was to make the action...
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