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Oliver Sacks: "Don't skip the footnotes"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "Don't skip the footnotes"

...works have introduced readers to the marvellous complexities of the mind, proving a great example of how “the two cultures” of science and literature may be reconciled. It is telling that Sacks’ admirers come equally from both sides of the divide, with science heavyweights Francis Crick, Gerald Edelman, Stephen Jay Gould matched by literary luminaries such as W.H....
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Blade Runner: What's the balance between science and fiction?
Science, Maths & Technology

Blade Runner: What's the balance between science and fiction?

...work when real scientists look at its workings?...Science – or strange permutations of it at least – is everywhere in the cinema. At any one time on movie screens around the world, humans are being threatened by lethal viruses, cured from terminal illness by miracle elixirs, rendered superhuman with bionic limbs or made obsolete by robots possessing artificial...
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Climate change’s costs are still escalating
Nature & Environment

Climate change’s costs are still escalating

...working outdoors in countries such as Malaysia The massive economic and health losses that climate change is already causing across the world are detailed in six scientific papers published on the 19th July. Perhaps most striking is the warning about large productivity losses already being experienced due to heat stress, which can already be calculated for 43 countries....
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Thinking Outside the Box
Society, Politics & Law

Thinking Outside the Box

...work] Alena & Lisa: On your website you describe yourself as an illustrator and visual facilitator. How do you see these roles in relation to your artistic practice- in what sense do they inform your art, in what sense are they separate? What is the advantage of being a visual facilitator and an artist? Laura: I find that different areas of my creative practice tend to...
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Lighting the Industrial Revolution
History & The Arts

Lighting the Industrial Revolution

...work round the clock...Power cuts force us to rely on more primitive methods of illumination, such as candles, gas or oil-lamps. Candles and flame lamps were in fact the main source of illumination for millennia, up until the late Victorian era. It was many years before electricity was harnessed to provide a new form of lighting both homes and businesses. Why did it take...
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Evolutions in Education: The OU Education Conference
Education & Development

Evolutions in Education: The OU Education Conference

...working in the education sector (from early years to further education) across the UK and the goal was to share key examples of external engagement and knowledge exchange work taking place at The Open University. The conference featured keynote addresses from senior leadership staff from the three nation offices and our School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport as...
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Exploring Ireland’s historic army barracks network
OpenLearn Ireland

Exploring Ireland’s historic army barracks network

...Work on the barracks network commenced in 1698–9, with a new bureaucracy of barrack-masters, a barrack board and barrack trustees put in place. Thereafter, the Irish barracks network expanded significantly and came to set the example for similar networks in Britain and further afield. Army barracks in Ireland: the OU research contribution The ‘Our shared built...
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Collective Creativity
Money & Business

Collective Creativity

...Work Foundation, 2007). Value, in the context of culture and creativity can be understood on a variety of levels – economic, aesthetic, socio-cultural, artistic and political. Although not mutually exclusive, these levels are often in tension with each other. By taking the focus away from individual creativity and moving to a discussion of collective or social...
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