Nobel Laureate Charles H. Townes - Rennaisance Man
A celebration of the life and work of Dr. Charles H. Townes on the ocassion of his 95th birthday http://www.iibhb.org
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Towering ambition: William Beckford and his buildings in Wiltshire and Bath
Dr Amy Frost investigates all of the architectural wonders that William Beckford spent his life constructing in this detailed biography.
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Massive database shows state judges are not representative of the people they serve
Forty-one states earn a "D" or "F" when it comes to how well their courts reflect the race, ethnicity and gender of the people they serve.
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Finding Area of a Triangle
Students learn the formula for the area of a triangle, and are asked to solve problems using this formula. Note that right triangle formulas and trigonometry are used extensively in the problems in this lesson.
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Open Educational Resources in Africa
Open Educational Resources in Africa
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Java110 The AWT Package, An Overview
R.G. (Dick) Baldwin
This lesson is primarily a preview of what you can expect to find in several lessons immediately following this one. This and the next several lessons concentrate on the package java.awt where […]

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China's Ascent: New Superpower or New Global System? Session 10
Dr Marc Lanteigne, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews presents "China and FTAs in International Trade". 45th Otago Foreign Policy School - Salmond Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand. Friday 25 June to Sunday 25 June 2010.
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Chilean police clash with protesters
Sept 27 - Chilean police use water cannon to disperse students protesting for education reforms. Rough Cut (No reporter narration)
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Season 3 – Lesson 03 – Coffee Break Spanish
Coming up in this lesson:

This lesson was originally released in October, so in lesson 3 of Show Time Spanish, Alba tells Mark about a Halloween party she attended. They discuss the traditions of Halloween. In the intermedio José provides two alternative ways to say that you’re tired. Grammar points include reflexive verbs in different tenses, the subjunctive after quizás.  Not the most seasonal of lessons, but lots of interesting Spanish!

Please note that lesson 03
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Season 3 – Lesson 23 – Coffee Break Spanish
Coming up in this lesson:

This week Mark and Alba bring you a special musical episode: combining the Eurovision Song Contest with a performance from Mark of Tango by Spanish composer Albéniz. In the intermedio, José introduces the idea of ’embarrassment’ – vergüenza – and gives listeners some examples of how to use this concept in interesting expressions. Language points covered include llevar + time in the negative to talk about what you haven’t done for a
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5.3.5 Discussion with the school co-ordinator

In this session the tutor should:

• thank him or her for making the arrangements for the visit and for the support they are giving the student and stress the importance of the partner school's training and assessment role, and the school co-ordinator's quality assurance role.

• seek confirmation that the school co-ordinator is actively involved in all summative assessments and check that they know the schedule for returning the school exp
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Dimensions of the Global Food Crisis: Session 11
Barry Coates, Oxfam, New Zealand presents "Need and greed: Food security, trade and global supply chains". 44th Otago Foreign Policy School - Salmond Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand. Friday 26 June to Sunday 28 June 2009.
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Can The Referendum Be Democratic? Reflections On The Brexit Process
Stephen Tierney, Professor of Constitutional Theory in the School of Law, University of Edinburgh, In this FLJS lecture, Stephen Tierney, Professor of Constitutional Theory, University of Edinburgh, discusses the circumstances surrounding the forthcoming referendum on the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union. We live in an age of direct democracy. Around the world the referendum is used more and more in processes of constitutional formation and change. This lecture will consider w
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Learning outcomes

After studying this unit you should be able to:

• understand how the world is in the process of ‘being made’, right down to the earth beneath our feet;

• consider how islands are shaped by a dynamic relationship between territories and flows;

• show how human life is entangled with non-human forces and processes in the making of today's globalised world.

6.4 Pictures

It used to be thought that a photograph could provide proof of an event – someone could be caught red-handed by a photograph, as proof of their guilt. 'The camera never lies', it was said. If you have a digital camera and have been 'touching up' photographs on your home computer you will know that this is far from true now. It is easy to lie with a digital photograph.

The idea that the camera never lies has always been a myth, however. As far back as 1917 the photographs of the Cottin
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After completing this course you may wish to study another OpenLearn course or find out more about this topic. Here are some suggestions:

• History and The Arts

If you wish to study formally at The Open University, you may wish to explore the courses we offer in this curriculum area:

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5.2 Thought and language

For Piaget the development of thought and language was dependent on underlying ‘intelligence’. Language is therefore simply a reflection of mental ability: intelligence precedes language and is independent of it.

Vygotsky (1986) however, proposed that language has two functions: inner speech, used for mental reasoning, and external speech, used for communication with other people. He suggested that these two functions arise separately. That is, before the age of about 2 years, child
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First-order differential equations

This unit introduces the topic of differential equations. The subject is developed without assuming that you have come across it before, but it is taken for granted that you have a basic grounding in calculus. In particular, you will need to have a good grasp of the basic rules for differentiation and integration.

This study unit is an adapted extract from the Open University course MST209 Mathematical methods and models, which is no longer taught by the University. If you want t
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A Population Proportion
Alexander Holmes

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