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4 (72 min): Explores water purity, safety and the role that chemistry plays in managing the environment. Looks at water management from the maintenance of river water quality to the detailed chemistry of the...
Aspects of life and death from a chemical perspective. What happens to our body chemistry when we have a heart attack? What role did oxygen play in the origins of life? How do the toxic by-products of oxygen...
An exercise in observing, identifying and quantifying the bahaviuor patterns of animals and in analysing the relationship between individuals. Explores the range and type of behavioural patterns displayed by...
A ‘map’ of the human brain, using three-dimensional images to teach the structure and function of some of the key centres of the brain. Covers general geography, systems of the brain, the cerebral...
Discusses ways of making sense of the behaviour patterns displayed by animals. Careful observation makes it possible to record and describe behaviour patterns and, according to Dr Niko Tinbergen, the first...
Discusses stress, showing stressful behaviour in robins, farm animals in pens, and a widow at her husband’s grave. Analyses stress in behavioural and control theory terms, and looks at some of the...
Explores how a computer simulation of a factory can provide guidance in the manufacturing and production processes, saving costly experimentation.
One quarter of the world’s population uses three quarters of the world’s fossil fuels. There are competing pressures in the industrialised societies on the need to control energy use and to satisfy...
Jon Hamwee, of the Open University Systems Group, demonstrates the technique of drawing ‘influence diagrams’, which are an important analytical tool in the systems approach to problem solving. Shows a...
Thousands of jobs in the United Kingdom hinge on catching fish in the waters around Britain. Against this there is the problem of an ever-diminishing stock of fish in these areas. How do we go about...
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