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Is your wash day polluting the oceans?
Nature & Environment

Is your wash day polluting the oceans?

...system, but are far too small to be removed in the treatment plants where other solid materials and pollutants are caught. As a result, the fibres escape into rivers and then oceans. The fibres which end up in the ocean come from every kind of synthetic garment – from your socks and swimsuits to pullovers and parkas. Plastics break down very slowly in the marine...
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Using OpenLearn as an OU Student
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Using OpenLearn as an OU Student

...systems and tools you will use, where to get help and support, and even how to sign up for student discounts. If you are studing one of the university's open programme degrees, such as BA/BSc (Hons) Open, then you can also get more help and support in the OpenLearn course Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits. If you are a postgraduate student then Succeeding in...
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Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...think it's a fascinating story because the climate is a complex system, and it's a difficult thing to understand. Climate models are getting more and more complicated as we understand them better, and we put more, and more science into the code, and they're getting better at reproducing the climate. But there's always going to be some things that we can do better, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Why sportspeople convicted of violence against women forfeit their right to be 'stars'
Society, Politics & Law

Why sportspeople convicted of violence against women forfeit their right to be 'stars'

...think about the sport of boxing, violence outside the ring is never ok and yet too often the men (because it is overwhelmingly men who engage in domestic violence) are looked up to as role models. Mayweather was sentenced to jail for three months after being found guilty for attacking his partner, Josie Harris. The boxer, who committed the offence in front of his two...
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Investigating a murder with forensic psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating a murder with forensic psychology

...system, recognising that our learners will be based in a range of jurisdictions with different legal processes. As a result, while the fictional case is based in England, the course is not intended to be an accurate portrayal of all legal processes and rules within England and Wales...Week 1: Introduction to the case: 1.1 Meet the psychological team - This course was...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
From old English to modern English
History & The Arts

From old English to modern English

...system. OE was mostly written using the Latin alphabet, supplemented by a few Germanic runic letters to represent sounds not found in Latin e.g. þ, which represented the th sounds in thin or this. (A relic of þ survives as y in modern signs like Ye Olde Tea Shoppe.) The later Viking settlements in many parts of the British Isles also resulted in substantial borrowing of...
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Does the rural idyll really exist?
Nature & Environment

Does the rural idyll really exist?

...think I need to put my city experience into perspective. Can you explain to me why growing up in Coventry was such a dismal experience for me? [ever wondered, environment, lincoln alison, inline ] Dr Lincoln Allison: I think I can yes. I mean if you cast your mind back to 1945, they rebuilt this city as a modern city, with its precinct and its ring-roads and so on and I...
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Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness

...think they need to be adaptable, physically fit, obviously, good hand to eye coordination, stay cool and calm under pressure, and then in rugby have a controlled aggression. Alex: I think mental is ten, just as important as the physical. Ashley: I think it’s half-half really because if you don’t have like the mental side to it then you’re not really going to go far,...
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