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Dealing with Change
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dealing with Change

...resource and knowledge, and social and political change. Change happens for many reasons. It can be gradual developmental change to make improvements to skills, technology or processes that already exist, or it can be transformational where the change is dramatic and is characterised by a radical change to things like the mission, culture, leadership and structure of an...
Climate Change Collection
Nature & Environment

Climate Change Collection

...humanities, to social science, education and STEM, it provides an introduction to the issues surrounding climate change. OpenLearn contains many more articles on environmental issues. You can navigate the site by subject area or by searching for key words in the search bar. Notes to teachers All OpenLearn courses can be downloaded as documents (PDF, Word, ePub, Kindle) by...
Exploring the science of climate
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the science of climate

...human activities could influence global climate first emerged more than a hundred years ago, when the Swedish scientist Arrhenius warned that burning coal could lead to global warming. The tracks on this album take a historical look at the systematic study of weather and climate, from the amateur scientists of the Mannheim group in the late 18th century to the...
Nuclear power: friend or foe?
Society, Politics & Law

Nuclear power: friend or foe?

...resources. It is the ability of both sides to mobilise resources (in terms of finance, technology, political and public opinion) that determines outcomes. Nonetheless, discourse matters, too, since it both reflects and inspires the changing relationships of power. For this online exercise you will immerse yourself in the nuclear debate by tackling both sides in the...
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Explainer: What is autophagy?
Science, Maths & Technology

Explainer: What is autophagy?

...human cell treated with a compound which induces autophagy] Figure 1: A human cell treated with a compound which induces autophagy. Autophagosomes are visible as small bright green speckles. The general mechanisms of autophagy are thought to be highly similar in all eukaryotic organisms. Defective cell components are engulfed by a membrane, which wraps around the waste...
The Centre for Children and Young People’s Wellbeing at The Open University
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Centre for Children and Young People’s Wellbeing at The Open University

...humanities. We are based at the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at The Open University. Our current research projects are funded by The Wellcome Trust and Safefood (the all-Ireland food safety authority). Current research and advocacy partners are at the University of Liverpool, University College Dublin, University of Oslo, Flinders University...
How are scientists testing for the growth of antibiotic resistance?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How are scientists testing for the growth of antibiotic resistance?

...human ingenuity, rather like plastics or bright permanent dyes, which were discovered at roughly the same time. Packaged in vials or pills, they seemed like our inventions rather a chance gift of evolution and one that evolution might also rescind. And so it proved. At first bacterial populations expressed only low levels of resistance to antibiotics. But soon, microbes...
Festival fever
History & The Arts

Festival fever

...Choose from the following: comedy plays poetry performance music festivals Make 'em laugh - learn more about comedy Unleash your inner playwright with these resources Become a wordsmith with these learning tools on poetry Make your performance perfect with these materials Discover music theory with these articles and course What's great about festivals? Find out here...
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