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How lenses and mirrors work
Health, Sports & Psychology

How lenses and mirrors work

...centre of a lens do not deviate from their original path. Light paths do not depend on the direction in which light is travelling. So, for example, since parallel rays of light are brought to a focus by a convex lens at a distance f from the lens, then rays of light emanating from a point a distance f away from the lens will be converted into a parallel beam. A lens which...
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Environment: journeys through a changing world
Nature & Environment

Environment: journeys through a changing world

...Centre talks about improvements in the locals' health and well-being. The Negative Effect of Gorilla Tourism HIV and crime. A doctor from the Bwindi Community Health Centre and a conservation representative outline the problems that were created when soldiers and tourists arrived. Contact with Gorillas Conservation workers explain how humans pass on disease to gorillas...
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Opening the wardrobe
Money & Business

Opening the wardrobe

...research and shed light on how it can be used in practice. The event helped explain how social marketing research is used to influence behaviour in ways which can improve individual and societal wellbeing. This online event aimed to raise awareness of how research can be the basis for making clothing ownership and use more sustainable. Each year, UK households spend...
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Start writing essays
History & The Arts

Start writing essays

...Researching an essay Open University tutors Tim Baugh and Lesley Hoose discuss essay titles, research and schedules with OU student Beth Lewis. Early stages of essay writing John Humphrys stresses how important it is to know your subject and know your position in the argument. What is good writing? There is a fine line between good and pretentious writing, John Pilger...
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Homeless people could avoid life-saving services, if there’s a risk of deportation
Society, Politics & Law

Homeless people could avoid life-saving services, if there’s a risk of deportation

...centre] Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre is a detention centre for foreign nationals prior to their deportation from the United Kingdom Desperate and destitute The snowfall which recently covered parts of the UK served up a stark reminder that access to adequate housing is a basic human right, which can save lives. Now, more than ever, it is clear that access to...
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Vikings - just misunderstood?
History & The Arts

Vikings - just misunderstood?

...centre and on the right are wearing chainmail whilst the first man on the left has a cream coloured top on with a green triangular scarf.] “Yes it’s a new thing we’re trying out, it’s called ‘international trade’.” Anna Gowthorpe/PA While the Vikings are gone their legacy is remembered, such as at the annual Jorvik Viking Festival in York. The Norsemen’s...
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Writing from the heart
Education & Development

Writing from the heart

...research reveals the highly personal nature of much writing. Threaded through our data from the Arvon residential we can see a strong sense of ‘writing from the heart’. In some ways this not surprising; we know that writers draw on their lives and as Berlie Doherty observed many years ago, ‘fiction is a combination of I remember and let’s pretend’. But it...
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OpenMinds-Talk: Virtual Worlds for real experiences
Digital & Computing

OpenMinds-Talk: Virtual Worlds for real experiences

...research has two strands: learning technologies and social computing. Professor Minocha will show how virtual worlds bridge time and places, interleaving the virtual with the real – allowing people to communicate and collaborate with those whom they may have never met, experience places they may never be able to visit, shop, learn, and do research. Professor Minocha...
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