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Pick a side and make a difference: Why you should vote this Thursday
Society, Politics & Law

Pick a side and make a difference: Why you should vote this Thursday

...data described in the article] Is this something we should be concerned about? After all, voting is not compulsory in the UK. Surely it is a persons’ right to decide not to vote? It is worth noting however that where voting is compulsory, such as in Australia, turnout still doesn’t reach 100%. Having said that over a comparable time period turnout at General Elections...
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Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list

...data to back it up. To be fair, Arnall himself has admitted that the equation is not particularly helpful. A lack of data is not surprising if you think about the amount of work that would be involved in a study like this. You would have to take a large group of people and measure each of these factors every day of the year. You would then need to assess the relative...
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20 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Education & Development

20 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...data are not represented on this map due to mapping limitations. 8. In fact, most of our audience isn't in the UK The Open University may be based in the UK but OpenLearn certainly isn't limited by borders. Only 44% of our visits last year came from the UK, meaning the majority came from elsewhere around the world. Turns out free learning has a pretty good passport. 9....
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Fatih Birol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Fatih Birol - Stories of Change

...data we are getting from the emissions seem slowing down of the emissions mainly as a result of renewables playing a more important role in the global energy mix, and efficiency policies are bearing fruits. This is one: the data is getting… encouraging data. And the second, more and more countries are committed to address the climate change – the governments –...
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Children’s experiences with digital technologies
Education & Development

Children’s experiences with digital technologies

...analysis’ and ‘systematic reviews’. These studies identify, compare, analyse and synthesise findings from a number of previously published studies. Meta-analyses in particular involve the use of statistical methods to compare findings among different studies. A cautionary note is that not all studies are done or explained equally well; they may present several...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...data and how data can tell us something about the state of the economy and whether things are going wrong. That’s a bit like looking at the dashboard of a car. And just as with a car if you’re looking at the dashboard and the red lights are flashing you want to know what can policymakers do to steer the economy back on track. And that’s essentially what Block 2 is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 28 hrs
Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...analysis is with nutrient budgeting. Energy is expended in the search for food, and in ingesting and digesting it. If food is so scarce that searching is inefficient, or its nutrient content so low that little nourishment is obtained from it, animals may be able to save energy by suppressing appetite and fasting. In polar environments, food is widely scattered both in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Can rugby be made safer - and still be rugby?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can rugby be made safer - and still be rugby?

...analysis of Bledisloe Cup rugby matches between Australia and New Zealand in 2004, researchers counted an average of nearly 500 collisions in a game: 26 scrums, 200 rucks and mauls, and 270 tackles. In rugby league, the scrums are fewer and less contested, and rucks and mauls non-existent. Tackles, while less frequent, are no less fierce. In 2011, Sydney researchers...
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