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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?

...projected this niche into the future using climate models and scenarios, which revealed that all the models were in general agreement. They then combined this with satellite imagery to come up with the present-day forest coffee area, and the area projected in the future. Higher altitudes are forecast to become more suitable for coffee while lower altitudes are projected...
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Article 5 mins
Impossible Peace 2: Where have all the leaders gone?
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Where have all the leaders gone?

...project took leadership - where are the leaders today?...[Senator George Mitchell, President Bill Clinton, Nancy Soderberg, Nelson Mandela]Senator George Mitchell, President Bill Clinton, Nancy Soderberg, Nelson Mandela For all its flaws, we have a peace to die for - something I have always thought is better appreciated from outside of us. It is a peace that depended on...
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Revision and examinations
Education & Development

Revision and examinations

...manage your time effectively by creating a timetable for your revision...Do you get stressed at the thought of an examination? Does the idea of revision fill you with dread? This free course, Revision and examinations, will provide a host of tips to help you improve your revision and examination techniques and enable you to manage your time effectively by creating a...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Exploring sedimentary processes
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring sedimentary processes

...brief introduction to this album. From granite to sand How sand is formed by the weathering of moorland rock. Sand under the microscope What microscopic investigations reveal about samples of sand. Grains of sand Using sieves to establish grain size profiles. Transporting sand grains Comparing the effectiveness of wind and water for moving sand grains of different sizes....
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Audio 22 mins
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...introduction to the album. What is social marketing? Michaela Firth in conversation with Gerard Hastings. Critical marketing Terry O'Sullivan in conversation with Gerard Hastings. Ethics and advertising Tom Farrell in conversation with Gerard Hastings. Evaluating social marketing programmes Michaela Firth in conversation with Gerard Hastings. Ethical brands Presented by...
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Audio 1 hr 31 mins
Introducing Health Sciences: Breast Screening
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Health Sciences: Breast Screening

...study approach... Introducing Health Sciences: Breast Screening A short introduction to this album Having a mammogram Find out exactly what happens when women have a mammogram. Follow up clinic Follow one woman's experience when a mammogram does not give clear results. Analysing Mammograms Step inside the pathology lab, where breast cells are being screened for cancer....
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Audio 23 mins
The Arts Past and Present: the Benin Bronzes
History & The Arts

The Arts Past and Present: the Benin Bronzes

...The arts past and present: the Benin Bronzes A short introduction to this album. Exhibiting the Benin Bronzes The academic dilemmas behind curatorial decisions on ways of displaying the Benin Bronzes. Ethnographic artefacts or works of art? Open University academic Paul Wood explores some of the issues surrounding classification of objects such as the Benin Bronzes....
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Audio 22 mins
Inuit Throat Singing
History & The Arts

Inuit Throat Singing

...A short introduction to this album. Tanya Tagaq – Throat Singing The background to throat singing and an example song – husky slipping on ice Learning throat singing How Culture within Singing What Tanya's singing means to her, and how her culture is encapsulated within it. The sounds of throat singing Exploring the sounds in throat singing, and how they are made....
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Audio 14 mins