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Money & Business
Opening the wardrobe
In November 2013, The Open University asked you to open your wardrobe and share your secrets with us in our wardrobe audit.
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Nature & Environment
Understanding water quality
Please note, this course was written in 2003/2004 therefore some of the information is now outdated.
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History & The Arts
Exploring philosophy: faking nature
Commercial exploitation of nature, such as mining, fracking, or generating hydro-electric power, often damages the way the natural environment looks. What if the environment could be restored to exactly how it looked before? Would that mean that no damage had been done, that the natural environment was as valuable as it had been before the ...
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Nature & Environment
Does the rural idyll really exist?
Although associated with Coventry, Terry Hall has spent a lot of time in the country. Who better, then, to go in search of the rural idyll?
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Nature & Environment
Sustainable Scotland
Sustainable Scotland is a free course that will appeal to anyone with an interest in a sustainable future in the context of contemporary Scottish society. It will give you a broad-based introduction to a number of different aspects of sustainability that impact on Scotland and the wider world.
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Nature & Environment
Watching the weather
This free course, Watching the weather, describes how meteorological observations are made looking upwards from the surface of the Earth, looking downwards from satellites in space and from aircraft and balloons within the atmosphere. This international network of observations is vital for scientists and forecasters and the results impact on ...
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Nature & Environment
Will Brexit spell the end of fishing quotas?
The Leave campaign promised that Brexit would help fishers ‘take back control’ of Britain’s fishing waters and stocks. But how quotas are allocated has always been a national decision.
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Nature & Environment
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions
PhD student Andreas Wernecke explores Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Can yoga help us achieve sustainable development goals?
Shonil Bhagwat explains the yogic way of understanding how individual actions relate to global challenges.
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Nature & Environment
The frozen planet
This free course is a general introduction to the frozen planet, including the temperature in the polar regions; the energy from the Sun and the seasons; reading and understanding graphs and maps; and how the Arctic and Antarctic regions are defined.
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Nature & Environment
Cytoskeleton: The cell city's transport system
Why is a cell's cytoskeleton similar to a city's transport system?
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Nature & Environment
Studying mammals: Return to the water
Some of the most unusual and versatile of all the mammals are the groups that live, feed and reproduce underwater. In this free course, Studying mammals: Return to the water, we will see how these formerly land-based mammals adapted to a return to the water, discussing such challenges as breathing, movement and communication. This is the seventh...