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UK must balance food farming impacts
Nature & Environment

UK must balance food farming impacts

...table. The UK’s “land footprint” – another term for the global area of land devoted to delivering British food and animal feed –increased by 23% between 1986 and 2009, while associated carbon dioxide emissions increased by 15%, say Henri de Ruiter, an environmental scientist at the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen, and colleagues. At present, two-thirds of all...
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Diagrams, charts and graphs
Science, Maths & Technology

Diagrams, charts and graphs

...tables and charts. Finally you will learn to draw graphs using coordinate axes, which is a very important mathematical technique. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Mathematics...Diagrams, charts and graphs: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: draw and interpret scale diagrams extract information from tables...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
How to write to a lover
History & The Arts

How to write to a lover

...tables, streets built to outlast revolution are lit by a night where lovers walk. Montparnasse and the old palace, pitted wood of Pont des Artes remembers the weight of recent past, the Seine carries limbs twisting in the ironwork below. A few months later, I met a guy named Per in Sweden. Another tall dude. Per’s English was excellent, like most Swedes. He said...
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John Napier
Science, Maths & Technology

John Napier

...tables of logarithms which drastically reduced the work needed to do complicated calculations, such as those required in astronomy and navigation. Napier’s ‘excellent brief rules’ were quickly adopted and improved upon. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 2 study in Mathematics...This free course looks at Scotsman John Napier (1550-1617) and his...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Being a boy
Health, Sports & Psychology

Being a boy

...contemporary boyhood, drawing on research conducted at The Open University and elsewhere...[The family are dining together at a table] Click on the image above, to start your interactive experience... 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....
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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France

...de seigle, wholemeal bread, pain complet, seeded bread, pain aux céréales and many regional specialities. French Dans la plupart des familles françaises, on achète son pain tous les jours. La baguette traditionnelle est bien meilleure lorsqu’elle est fraîche, ou même encore chaude, et c’est pour cette raison que les Français vont à la boulangerie de leur...
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Getting started with Spanish 3
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 3

...favor? With Ester García, please? TO ASK WHO IS CALLING OR SAY WHO IS SPEAKING: ¿De parte de quién? Who is calling? ¿Con quién hablo? Who am I speaking to? Soy Matilde Fernández. It’s Matilde Fernández. Habla Matilde Fernández (LAm). Matilde Fernández speaking. TO PUT PEOPLE THROUGH: Le pongo en seguida. I’m putting you through right away. Un momento, le paso. One moment, I’m putting you through. Activity 1 ......
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Can cartoons help keep indigenous Mexican languages alive?
Languages

Can cartoons help keep indigenous Mexican languages alive?

...de la vida y del mundo. Al desaparecer, se pierde la cosmovisión y cosmogonía única de cada pueblo, perdiéndose una parte importante de la humanidad. The indigenous languages encompass a unique vision of life and of the world. Their disappearance would imply a loss of the unique world view and existence of each community; an important part of humanity. In this sense,...
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