Uncertainty, Lags and Nonlinearity: Challenges to Governance in a Turbulent World
Prof. Homer-Dixon looks at systems displaying high levels of uncertainty. Using the example of climate change, he asks whether standard "management" approaches used by policymakers are enough or if we must find new approaches in times of uncertainty. Global financial, climate, energy, and food challenges exhibit similar characteristics - all emerge from systems exhibiting high levels of uncertainty, countless unknown unknowns, time lags, threshold effects, occasional chaotic behavior, and someti
Introduction to Astrophysics
A short introduction to Astrophysics at Oxford University by Professor Roger Davies.
Conclusion This free course provided an introduction to studying Science. It took you through a series of exercises designed to develop your approach to study and learning at a distance and helped to improve your confidence as an independent learner.
Putney Debates 2017 - Session I: Parliament and the People
The Putney Debates 2017 addresses the UK's constitutional future in the wake of the vote to leave the European Union. Session I: Parliament and the People, chaired by Professor Denis Galligan, addresses the relationship between parliamentary sovereignty and popular democracy.
Using aperture to create a blurred or sharp photo background
This video shows how to change a photo by changing the aperture and lens. You may want to blur part of the picture to highlight what is important. (3:56)
Multiplication With Your Fingers
If you can multiply by 1, 2, 3 and 4, you can also do it by 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 using only your fingers and thumbs. A great trick for students having difficulties memorizing their fact families. (1:47)
Traditional Classical Persian Music
A concert of traditional classical Persian music by Nader Majd & Farshid Mahjour.
Speaker Biography: An economist by training, Nader Majd is one of the founders of the Iranian Cultural Society in Washington D.C., and the co-founder of the Saba and Rouholah Khaleghi Ensembles.
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Uber’s Data Breach: Can the Company Course-correct?
Investors and customers once tolerated Uber’s skirmishes with regulators as the price one pays for innovation. But that may no longer be so.
Learning outcomes After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an awareness of the problems related to evidence for supporting claims on ‘ordinary’ people’s attitudes demonstrate an awareness of popular responses to the South African War (1899-1902) understand attitudes to imperialism held by Americans.
Keep on learning   There are more than 800 courses on OpenLearn for you to c The Final Stage in Digestion Living in an era of global terror 3.6 Massacres of Chios – challenging the establishment If the Barque had marked Delacroix out as an innovator, his next important Salon exhibit, Massacres of Chios (1824) (see Plate 20), was much bolder in its challenge to the establishment. The painting is a fictionalised account of the aftermath of the Turks’ massacre of 20,000 Greeks on the island of Chios, which occurred in 1822 during the Greek Wars of Independence. The massacre was a reprisal for Turkish losses caused by a Greek uprising against Turkish occupation. Again the 1.2.5 Bar charts: Surgical removal of tattoos
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This very short video shows what happens when the digestion process comes to an end. It explains that solid waste is produced at the end of digestion.
In this podcast, Professor Richard Aldrich from the School of Politics and International Relations, discusses the impact of globalisation, the opportunities this affords to global terrorists and the challenges faced by the intelligence services.
Globalisation has led to a free flow of money, people and ideas, which has benefited many people in the West in recent years and enhanced our standard of living, but the price paid is a reduction in security. As we see a shift towards a de-regulated glo
By: tltom This tutorial will help you decipher when the use of the McNemar's test is applicable and how to calculate the statistic in the STATA program.
This course is an introduction to differential geometry. The course itself is mathematically rigorous, but still emphasizes concrete aspects of geometry, centered on the notion of curvature.
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Introduction: Previous functional imaging studies comparing Chinese and English reading have reported that a left middle frontal region is more activated by Chinese reading and the left superior temporal cortex is more activated by English reading (Tan et al. 2001; 2003). We investigated this finding and its interpretation by conducting a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study of reading in China and England using monolingual adolescents who spoke Mandarin or English respectively. Ou
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