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Milano Cortino Winter Olympics 2026 – let the slipping and sliding commence!
Health, Sports & Psychology

Milano Cortino Winter Olympics 2026 – let the slipping and sliding commence!

...out for is Kristen Spours who featured in BBC OU co-production Freeze: Skating on the edge. It is Kristen’s final appearance before retirement. The skeleton events have traditionally been productive for Team GB with Lizzy Yarnold and Amy Williams winning golds between 2010 and 2018. In Cortina the men’s team will be represented by Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt...
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When words escape control: Tourette syndrome and slurs
Education & Development

When words escape control: Tourette syndrome and slurs

...out an apology for broadcasting a racial slur during the BAFTA Awards. The incident happened when John Davidson, a guest at the ceremony who has Tourette syndrome, shouted the N-word while actors Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo, both of whom are Black, were up on stage presenting an award. Although the ceremony was broadcast on a delay, the word wasn’t edited out of...
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Europe’s Borders in Question
Society, Politics & Law

Europe’s Borders in Question

...out, not on the ‘outside’ looking in. Walls and fences, checkpoints and border controls, are erected for a reason: they place people on the ‘outside’. [A barbed-wire fence dividing Hungary and Serbia] As such, there seems to be a clear political logic at work. With EU member states unwilling to be the one that gets ‘stuck’ with migrants on their territory, the...
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Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...burning fossil fuels for home heating and car driving. But this leaves out their indirect CO2 equivalent emissions arising from the production and distribution of the food, drink and other goods and services they consume, ranging from clothes and electronic products to banking, medical services and Open University modules. Again depending on the boundary, these indirect...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Star Trek 50
Miscellaneous

Star Trek 50

...out more about The Open University's Science qualifications. Have you ever wondered how the Enterprise crew managed to survive on all those weird and wonderful planets they visited? And has pondering on the tug of war between Spock and McCoy kept you up many a long night? Don't worry, we've convinced a few of our academics to look into these deep and meaningful Trekkie...
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Perceptions of corruption
Science, Maths & Technology

Perceptions of corruption

...out just how widespread it is and how we can combat it ...The best way to view this video is in full screen. To do this, click on the square in the bottom right corner of the screen above. Video adapted from the What is the corruption perceptions index? video. Copyright 20 September 2012 Transparency International: the global coalition against corruption. Used with...
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100 Years of Votes for (some) Women
History & The Arts

100 Years of Votes for (some) Women

...1918, 8.5 million women voted for the first time in a General Election. To celebrate this historic event we've made a short film on two remarkable suffragettes, Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson. Check out their incredible story below then dig deeper into our resources on suffragettes, women's history and feminism. Endell Street: A Suffragette Story Transcript...
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Contact OpenLearn

...out our Get started with OpenLearn page. If you still can't find the answer you are looking for then please email one of the following mailboxes: 1) For OpenLearn account creation issues email OU-computing-helpdesk@open.ac.uk. 2) For all other OpenLearn queries email openlearn@open.ac.uk. 3) If you need to contact the The Open University about anything other than...
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