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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...
Article 30 mins
Making your learning count – Example study pathways (YXM130)
Education & Development

Making your learning count – Example study pathways (YXM130)

...Resources available. Just click on an example to see what courses each individual would choose to study! If you are a Young Applicant in Schools Scheme (YASS) Scotland student, there is further information about YXM130 available for you here: OpenLearn choices for YASS students - OpenLearn - Open University. Remember, it is entirely up to you what you study! You just need...
Children and the Internet
Health, Sports & Psychology

Children and the Internet

...resource with numerous benefits come concerns about its long term effects on child psychology... How children use the internet Professor Sonia Livingstone discusses why she was drawn to this area of research Percieved dangers Professor Sonia Livingstone explains the risks of unregulated access to information from net Regulation and benefits Professor Sonia Livingstone...
Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One

...resource for those who are new or wish to learn more about the abolitionist idea 1. Why call for abolition and not prison reform? Over the last 200 years, many societies have experimented with various prison reform interventions. Yet no reform initiative has ever improved the effectiveness of the prison. Moreover, the foundations on which imprisonment is based are...
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...human knowledge is now so wide that it helps to have this knowledge indexed and systematised, just as we might organise books in a library. Indeed, ‘disciplines’ is a term with medieval origins, which used to refer to the specific rules and processes that had to be followed in order to become an expert in a particular subject. In the following sections, you will gain...
How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth
Science, Maths & Technology

How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth

...humans are leaving our own mark in pollutants and greenhouse gases. But despite being so thin and light, the atmosphere is far from insignificant. The influence is not all in one direction and the atmosphere plays a vital role in the evolution of the other elements. Winds drive ocean currents and rainfall alters ocean salinity and so density, which drives other, deep...
People-centred designing
Science, Maths & Technology

People-centred designing

...Human Factors Design at the London office of the internationally renowned IDEO design consultancy. The second is James Dyson discussing usability issues of the DC01 bagless vacuum cleaner. Clicking on the play button will start each video. Exercise 1 User friendly products...People-centred designing: 2 New products – old failings - This section introduces product...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs