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The Trojan Defence
Science, Maths & Technology

The Trojan Defence

...world of computer malware and reveals the products and business models used to fund a 'hidden' economy. Fighting Back How the Trojan Defence works as a legal defence, and the challenges computer crime raises for both prosecution and for defence. You Decide Ian Kennedy walks through an investigation that he conducted on a computer containing indecent images of children,...
English: Language of opportunity
Languages

English: Language of opportunity

...Worlds of English... English in Indian schools In Bangalore private schools teach English whereas most state schools teach in the local dialect. English in science In science English is currently the language of choice. English in China Since the Chinese economy has opened up, interest in speaking English has increased. English in Malaysia In Malaysia there was a concern...
Fossil Detectives
Science, Maths & Technology

Fossil Detectives

...worlds long gone... Fossil Detectives A short introduction to this album. Megalosaurus in the Oxford museum Hermonie Cockburn intorduces and explains the birth of the Fossil Detective series and discusses the Megalosaurus, which includes a clip from the central England programme. Dinosaur excavation Hermonie focusses on the work of Gideon Mantell and shows a clip of her...
Travelling Objects
History & The Arts

Travelling Objects

...world in our interactive to discover how 'objects' aren't just merely beautiful art works but can also reveal fascinating histories and global connections...Travelling objects Please note: We've included references in a simple style for this open access resource. However, if you want to use these references in an academic manner please use our FREE course Developing good...
Understanding Globalisation
Money & Business

Understanding Globalisation

...world. In the following audio tracks Susan Segal Horn (Emerita Professor of International Strategy) explains how globalisation increases the Integration of economic activities across boarders as a result how nations become interdependent on and other. This material forms part of the Open University course B835 The dynamics of strategy... Understanding Globalisation Susan...
What can lucid dreaming teach us about consciousness?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What can lucid dreaming teach us about consciousness?

...world (think Leonardo DiCaprio in the film Inception). [Woman sleeping under a Jane Austen book] Can you write your dreams as effectively as Jane Austen conjured her worlds? Lucid dreaming is still an understudied subject, but recent advances suggest it’s a hybrid state of waking consciousness and sleep. Lucid dreaming is one of many “anomalous” experiences that can...
Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?
Society, Politics & Law

Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?

...World in 1938 and he is credited with coining the expression but only by people like Boris Johnson who do not know, for instance, that the Cambridge historian Professor (later Sir) John Seeley gave a lecture in London to the Peace Society in 1871, and published in Macmillan’s Magazine, entitled United States of Europe. The campaigns for the UK referendum on Europe have...
How would post-Brexit trade deals actually work?
Society, Politics & Law

How would post-Brexit trade deals actually work?

...World Trade Organisation most-favoured-nation (MFN) rules. It will also regain its WTO seat and make trade deals with other countries to replace those it enjoys via the EU, with a particular focus on the Commonwealth. In this way sovereignty will be regained. Of the various ways of leaving the EU, something like this “complete Brexit” is the preferred option of many...