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What is a metal?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a metal?

...think of many other examples of metal use. Each metal has its own personal signature and metals can be identified experimentally by being burnt in a naked flame. In this course you will start exploring some of the characteristic properties of metals that allow their varied uses in our everyday lives. You will also undertake an online experiment to identify metals using a...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...thinking geographically, importantly there’s a lot of emphasis on listening to perspectives from across a range of contexts across the Global South. Although clearly not in the Global South, the International virtual field trip starts in Glasgow, Scotland, at the United Nations COP26 Climate Change Conference. Departing from here, you will then engage with a series of...
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Article 5 hrs
Let’s not talk about dying: Five reasons why people avoid planning for their end-of-life care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Let’s not talk about dying: Five reasons why people avoid planning for their end-of-life care

...thinking about what needs or preferences a person may have in the future in relation to their care. Advance care planning can happen at any time and does not depend on a diagnosis. My research has looked at how these plans are talked about, created, and used in health and social care practice, particularly at the end of life. Here is a list of five reasons (of many more!)...
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Article 10 mins
Jack Perks - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Jack Perks - Earth in Vision

...think. There was one on YouTube, the last time I checked that was about 9,000-odd views on there. The actual film itself, because you had to buy it, so obviously that would limit numbers to somewhat, but I think about 300/350 people-odd did pay to see the film. So an impact in some way anyway . Traditional television versus new media I’d say with the advent of...
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Video 30 mins
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Monsoon and its role on regulating global climate in the past
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Monsoon and its role on regulating global climate in the past

...system encompasses North America, Africa and Asia. However, the Asian monsoon is by far the most dramatic and the largest in its ariel extent. The subsystems of the Asian monsoon are: East Asian affecting China, Japan and the Far East, Indian or south Asian affecting India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar, south East Asian affecting Indonesia and northern Australia. The...
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Article 15 mins
What does the head of Ofsted do?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the head of Ofsted do?

...system and not simply denigrate unions...[What does the head of Ofsted do cartoon, society matters] Ministers are thought to be looking to the US, Canada and northern Europe in their search for the next chief inspector of schools. With the current head of Ofsted, Michael Wilshaw, due to step down in December at the end of his term, secretary of state Nicky Morgan is...
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Article 10 mins
Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

...think a bit more critically about the whole mindfulness movement after listening to a debate about how mindfulness is being applied in Western contexts. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course DD310 Counselling and forensic psychology: investigating crime and therapy. [Described image] Figure 1 ‘Seeing the light’ by Sue...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...system, then villagers could drink contaminated water. If they are used for irrigation, then crops could be contaminated. b. The phosphogypsum waste would have to be analysed to determine the separate components in the mixture. Each of these components would have to undergo laboratory tests to determine whether they are taken up by animal tissues and what effect they have...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs