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Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...account to assess climate. After all the traditional definition of 30 years is not a very bad time period. But even on multi decadal timescales the science has revealed that there is also variability, perhaps less in the global mean temperature than in the regional temperatures certainly. RH: Would you think that looking back ten years ago that there was a certain degree...
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Stonehenge before the First World War
History & The Arts

Stonehenge before the First World War

...account any large object appearing on it, such as a horse or tree or a big animal, looks very much bigger than it would on land with a broken surface. Oddly enough, my impossible Stonehenge was derived from a sober description and an accompanying plate in a sober work—a gigantic folio in two volumes entitled "A New System of Geography", dated some time in the eighteenth...
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The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn
Education & Development

The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn

...account with The Open University, the set-up for which is a universal function for the university’s websites and is only available in the English language. Table 4 shows platform metrics for the five courses and article translated into Ukrainian from the point of being published (October 2022) to November 2023. Table 4 Site metrics for content that was translated into...
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Recovery strategies in sport and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery strategies in sport and exercise

...accounted for. In the next activity we will look at some of these challenges and some of the limitations of research examining recovery. Activity 4 The challenges of investigating recovery Timing: Allow 25 minutes Imagine you have developed a new recovery strategy that you would like to test (e.g. a piece of equipment that you believe speeds up recovery between sessions)....
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Engendering citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Engendering citizenship

...account of equal rights for all citizens. Helen Meekosha. Helen One of the most exciting things for disabled people has been the growing rise of the disability movement both in the UK, the US, Australia and indeed across the world. And many of the new – not new rights, but many of the breaking down the barriers, have been occasioned by people taking to the streets, by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Why study languages?
Languages

Why study languages?

...account. These include the following: the language you want to study how much time you have to study how you want to study – in a class, or private study the level you want to study – short course, GCSE, A Level, university course the cost of the course the location of the course and how far you are willing to travel. Bearing these considerations in mind, have a look...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Understanding your sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...account the range of factors that you have been considering in this section. Try to identify at least one factor within each of the four PEST dimensions and, if possible, to consider the two time frames displayed. A good place to start is to review the sources of information listed in Section 3 or to ask people that you work with for their ideas. Table 4 Conducting a PEST...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Achieving public dialogue
Science, Maths & Technology

Achieving public dialogue

...accountable is the key point – part of what some see as a welcome ‘democratisation’ of science. Most scientists would be wary of any such step although others might ask if there is no prospect of ‘minds being changed’ – to the point perhaps where a piece of work or its application is discouraged or prevented – what is the point of discussion of this type? So...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs