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Society, Politics & Law
Jake Chapman On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Jake Chapman speaks with Prof. Simon Bell about what a systems approach means to him and touches on the subject of active listening.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Could you be a code breaker?
Test your problem-solving skills and try to crack our secret messages using clues.
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Science, Maths & Technology
The ice-covered ocean worlds of the outer Solar System
What do we know about Jupiter's and Saturn's icy moons? Could there be life on them? This article explores what previous missions can tell us and what future missions hope to find out.
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Nature & Environment
Arwen Bailey On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Arwen Bailey speaks with Prof. Simon Bell about systems in agricultural research.
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Society, Politics & Law
STiP@50 Celebrations
STiP@50 celebrates fifty years of distance learning at The Open Univeristy along with Systems Thinking. Find out more about systems thinking in practice with these podcasts and videos.
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History & The Arts
Learning from the past with historic buildings
How can we work with our building traditions to create designs that will last?
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Science, Maths & Technology
The role of business development in AstrobiologyOU
Ann Grand, Lecturer in Astrobiology Education, talked with Yiannis Tsamis, Business Development Manager, about the role of business development in AstrobiologyOU.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Succeed with maths: part 1
If you feel that maths is a mystery that you want to unravel then this free course is for you. It will guide you through how numbers are put together, give you confidence with using percentages, fractions and negative numbers and provide you with problem solving skills for your everyday life and the wider world.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Hat makers, Greek gods and the great poisoners
Ever wondered where the phrase 'as mad as a hatter' came from? We take a look at some infamous cases of poisoning.
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Explainer: how hostile is space?
Invisible radiation in space creates a harsh environment to perform science in. This article written in 2014 by Ben Dryer, a Postdoctoral Researcher in Electronic Imaging at The Open University, explains more...
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Nature & Environment
Water: Managing the 1% in a climate changing world
Water is essential to all life on Earth. This article explores how climate change is challenging our ways of thinking about and managing this scarce resource.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Introducing vectors for engineering applications
Applied mathematics is a key skill for practicing engineers and mathematical modelling is an ever-increasing field within engineering. This free course, Introducing vectors for engineering applications, covers one aspect of a Level 1 engineering module, the application of vectors and vector algebra, using examples inspired by engineering ...