2,607 search results
Past-Time Lover: Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof

...I am looking for: Someone with whom I could dream of a better, more egalitarian world. Someone, who, like me, would “imagine all the people, living life in peace”. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one! I really hope someday, you’ll join me and the world will live as one! Does Ludwik speak your language? Cast your vote! Illustrator: Neil Arnold...
View article Past-Time Lover: Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof
Article 5 mins
Buddhist Economics
Society, Politics & Law

Buddhist Economics

...world of economics, does a person’s well-being really matter? What is more important, social objectives or profit maximisation – or are they even compatible? During a trip to Burma in 1955, Ernest Schumacher pioneered the concept of Buddhist Economics, a set of principles based on the belief that the function of business is to supply goods and services for need and...
View audio Buddhist Economics
Audio 44 mins
Think like a scientist
Science, Maths & Technology

Think like a scientist

...world around you and find out how it works. These materials form part of the Open University free courses Basic Science: Understanding Experiments and Basic Science: Understanding Numbers available from OpenLearn. http://www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses... How to present your results A graph is a great way of telling a story with numbers but the same data can be...
View video Think like a scientist
Video 49 mins
Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction

...world of natural history and environment filmmaking, both the professionals but also those people who are using the lavish freedoms of digital media to make their own material and share it. What we realise is that we actually have an incredibly useful teaching resource here, for free, for all of those people. So if you want to be taught how to make a natural history...
View video Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction
Video 12 mins
Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list

...world that actually do matter to people. Hundreds of researchers across the world are working to find things out that will better society. When they find things out that are important, we need to know about it, and we can’t do that if it is buried by stories about chocolate helping you lose weight (it doesn’t). Second, stories like this make the news media less...
View article Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list
Article 5 mins
Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket

...World Cup currently underway, attention on women’s cricket is likely to peak again among the participating nations and beyond. The popularity of the women’s game seems to be going from strength to strength. But for every elite player, there are thousands of women and girls striving for opportunities to play the game at grassroots level. This article, originally...
View article Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket
Article 10 mins
Project Fear: Order your free graphic novel
Science, Maths & Technology

Project Fear: Order your free graphic novel

...world. Can systems thinking free us from fear? Simon Bell & Charles Cutting's graphic novel asks the question...Find out more about The Open University's Design courses and qualifications. We are all victims of fear. Project Fear has been with us for hundreds of years. So far, we have made little attempt to map fear or understand how it is used. Find out how fear is...
View activity Project Fear: Order your free graphic novel
Activity 5 mins
The secret life of T-shirts
Society, Politics & Law

The secret life of T-shirts

...world before it arrived in the shop you bought it from, so why is only one country listed? Your T-shirt has been on a long transformation process from a cotton field to your wardrobe. Find out more about all of these stages and which of them add the most value to your T-shirt. Finally, who benefits from this value? Find out more with our interactive exploration into the...
View activity The secret life of T-shirts
Activity 15 mins