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Valuing death at home: making preparations
Health, Sports & Psychology

Valuing death at home: making preparations

...community nurses are a good source of information and advice. There might also be people in your community who have experience in caring and will have some suggestions. Getting hold of things quickly can be difficult so it’s good to be prepared about what you will need. Ask about the professional health and care support system in your area, which can be done with your...
Hallowain't III: Woodfrogs
Nature & Environment

Hallowain't III: Woodfrogs

...LA Times reported a study by the Institute of Arctic Biology which discovered the little critters' approach to staying alive in a hostile climate: To see how these frogs were surviving the winter in the extreme Alaskan environment, the researchers used super glue to attach small radio transmitters about the size of a nickel to the backs of 16 frogs over two years. The...
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...communications, and through its advertising in various media. But The Open University also gives the impression that it is more than the sum of all these parts. It appears to have an existence independent of the people, institutions and practices that compose it, akin perhaps to the fictional Unseen University in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels. The Unseen...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?

...la fermiere (loosely translatable as wanting not only to have their cake and eat it, but also to kiss the baker’s daughter). But on the other hand, it is conceivable that Deal UK ought to be better than the deals granted to countries that have never been EU members. It would debase the status of EU membership to treat the UK worse than those who have never been equals...
How to read a rock
Science, Maths & Technology

How to read a rock

...LA-ICP-MS). The EMP allows geologists to shoot a precise beam of electrons at our tiny minerals, causing them to emit characteristic x-rays based on their chemical composition, which we can then measure. The LA-ICP-MS fires a laser at the sample, sending the debris of the mineral into a plasma, from which individual ions are separated using a magnet and are then measured...
Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion
Money & Business

Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion

...communities and each other, and to prevent persistent problems such as poverty, health inequalities and climate change. (Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, 2022a) The Act contains seven goals to improve the social economic, environmental and cultural wellbeing of Wales – but the areas they cover could apply equally to other nations. The goals are shown in Figure...
The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...communication – the aeroplane and, above all, radio – drew metropolis and possessions closer. While BBC broadcasts to the empire radiated the metropolitan viewpoint abroad, the BBC at home disseminated the ‘BBC accent’. Such eminent Victorians as Gladstone and Tennyson, as early gramophone records show, had strong regional accents (Lancashire and Lincolnshire...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery
Science, Maths & Technology

Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery

...community for decades, evolving under the influence of popular opinion. There’s George Darwin’s 1879 fission model in which a rapidly spinning early-Earth expelled material, that later coalesced into the Moon. And also, Gerstenkorn, H.’s 1955 Capture model, which claimed the Moon formed independently from Earth and was subsequently captured by Earth’s...