Random Atmosphere Podcasts

Climate change is a key issue on today’s social and political agenda. This unit explores the basic science that underpins climate change and global warming. This study unit is just one of many that can be found on LearningSpace, part of OpenLearn, a collection of open educational resources from The Open University. Published in ePub 2.0.1 format, some feature such as audio, video and linked PDF are not supported by all ePub readers.

Categories: Education

Tags: Aerosols, Albedo, Atmosphere, climate, climate change, Development and International Studies, ebook, energy, environment, epub, Glaciations, Greenhouse effect, ibook, Radiative forcing, Sea levels, temperature

Is space just another name for nothing? What is time and how does it relate to space? Will we ever understand the relationship between consciousness and the physical brain? Welcome to the world of The Open University’s Professor Russell Stannard where the big mysteries of the universe are made comprehensible and any possibility is considered in the name of science. This material is supported by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation.

Categories: Education

Tags: Assumption, Atmosphere, environment, hypothesis, life, moon, personality, spirit, stars, sun

How we can be sure our air is safe to breathe? This album introduces the principles and concepts of air quality management and looks at how we analyse pollution control problems. Five video tracks review the nature and characteristics of air pollution today and demonstrate how air quality data is interpreted. They include a comparison between shipping and car emission levels, the processes used to remove pollutants from the air, and ways in which British Aerospace could limit its Volatile Organic Compound emissions in the future. This material forms part of T308 Environmental monitoring, modelling and control.

Categories: Education

Tags: Airstream, Atmosphere, Britain, dust, engine, environment, filter, filtration, particle, transport, vehicle, VOC

In sacred space—a temple, an artist’s room, a scholar’s library—we feel atmosphere: the presence of the devotion and art, study and ritual, that have taken place within it over decades or centuries. On Alcôve, we enter into auratic places to explore aesthetics, spirituality, history, magic— those qualities we perceive in sacred space, and which open up that space within us. By talking with their keepers, descending into their foundations, and researching their objects and texts, we try to understand what is in the atmosphere of these extraordinary places.

Categories: Arts, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

Tags: architecture, Atmosphere, History, magic, museum, nature, otherwordly, paris, sacred space, spirituality, witches