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What is language?
Languages

What is language?

...history and social significance of our communicative abilities. Transcript If this piece has piqued your interest in the world of words, we have many language courses available for you to study. If you want to know more about the function and significance of language, we can particularly recommend the following courses: Or, if you’re looking for a course to develop your...
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Timeline: Engineering the real cyborgs
Science, Maths & Technology

Timeline: Engineering the real cyborgs

...history of how engineering has helped certain disabilities is to click the arrow on the right hand side (or swipe right on a tablet), which will take you through all the entries. You can also investigate various thems such as: 'Heart' or 'Eyes' by selecting the 'Open filters' button on the top right hand side. This will allow you to filter content and only see one theme....
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O' Fortuna: Can you survive Early Modern Europe?
History & The Arts

O' Fortuna: Can you survive Early Modern Europe?

...O Fortuna image] Select the image to start your journey. Instructions For best results, use a modern web browser. Upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer or try a free alternative like Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Playing on a tablet or mobile device? To play in full-screen mode, tilt your device on the long, landscape side. Delve deeper into history...
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15 minutes on Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

15 minutes on Mars

...history of Mars, investigate the environment on the planet today and find out where the future might take us. [Illustration of Mars in space] Instructions For best results, use a modern web browser. Upgrade to the latest version of Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari. [AstrobiologyOU logo]This article is part of the Astrobiology Collection on OpenLearn. This collection of...
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The weakness of European Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The weakness of European Wales

...histories of their respective nations. This is a potentially revealing angle because ideas about the past provide the foundation for national identities in the present. The glories and triumphs of yesteryear, the collective endurance of vicissitudes long past, the belief in shared origins and collective experiences: these are the things which provide the raw materials...
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Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision

...History Unit. We were trying to tell environmental stories and warn of climate change long before the E word became fashionable. I’m not sure we changed anything at the time but we did lay the groundwork for people to listen later. I left the BBC in the 1990s and since then have worked as a Producer and Executive Producer for all UK terrestrial broadcasters and...
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Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision

...history and me In terms of television and natural history I am a strange character it seems, in that I absolutely love television and as a child I absolutely loved television. I watched television all day and every day at the expense of reading things like actual books. I wore out the armchair of my parents’ sofa because I watched so much television, and my mother...
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Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
Education & Development

Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations

...history archive and ongoing collaboration for teaching, research and knowledge exchange between The Open University (Open University in Ireland, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Open University Library) and participants in the Time to Think archive. This includes Loyalist and Republican ex-prisoners who studied with The Open University in British and Irish...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs