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Why is the media still fascinated by Brady and Hindley's crimes? article icon

Society, Politics & Law

Why is the media still fascinated by Brady and Hindley's crimes?

Half a century on, the Moors Murders remain a fixed point of fascination and horror for the UK media. Two Manchester-based academics explain why.

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5 mins
Sport and exercise psychology video icon

Health, Sports & Psychology

Sport and exercise psychology

Psychological factors can play a significant role in sport and exercise. In sport, psychological preparation could mean the difference between winning and losing, whilst in exercise psychological factors could dictate whether or not we decide to even start an exercise programme. What are the links between exercise and mental health and what does...

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42 mins
Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs? article icon

Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

Do the people who claim to be the first of a new human/machine hybrid genuinely represent a new way of living - or are they wrong? Frieda Klotz went to the Cyborg Fair to find out.

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10 mins
What is the EU? - Student Hub Live's Brexit Special video icon

Society, Politics & Law

What is the EU? - Student Hub Live's Brexit Special

Learn about the EU and how it extends, limits or replaces the work of national governments, in the opening video of the Student Hub Live Brexit special.

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45 mins
Under Pressure again: Can the England team bring football home? article icon

Health, Sports & Psychology

Under Pressure again: Can the England team bring football home?

Can the young England team with the likes of Vardy, Kane and Dele Alli lay the ghosts of the past 50 years to rest by triumphing at UEFA Euro 2016?

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10 mins
Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life article icon

Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

Rats can smell tuberculosis. Dogs can smell cancer. Now they’re being trained to save your life. Emma Young reports.

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5 mins
Wheelchair basketball player Yasmin on coaching, classification and the cost of disability sport article icon

Health, Sports & Psychology

Wheelchair basketball player Yasmin on coaching, classification and the cost of disability sport

Yasmin Reeve is one of this year’s Sport and Fitness Student Voice Champions at The Open University. She’ll be tuning into the Tokyo Paralympics, but with mixed feelings, as she explains.

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5 mins
Racial inequities in health: The impact of COVID-19 in Wales and beyond video icon

Health, Sports & Psychology

Racial inequities in health: The impact of COVID-19 in Wales and beyond

The ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has shone a light on long-standing inequities in health within Black and minority ethnic communities in Wales, the UK and beyond.

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20 mins
Cannabis, Consciousness and the Imagination audio icon

Health, Sports & Psychology

Cannabis, Consciousness and the Imagination

We know drunk-driving causes death on the roads, but how does taking drugs like cannabis affect your driving skills? This album offers a chance to see how psychologists perform experiments which measure how much cannabis distorts a normal state of consciousness. Tracks 5-8 explore human inventiveness, pointing out that nothing in the world could...

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59 mins
Pum awgrym ar sut i gynllunio arferion hunanofal newydd article icon

Health, Sports & Psychology

Pum awgrym ar sut i gynllunio arferion hunanofal newydd

Mae Dr Sharon Mallon yn ystyried ystyr hunanofal cyn eich cyflwyno i rai o'r prif ffyrdd rhad ac effeithiol o ran amser y gallwch gyflwyno arferion hunanofal i'ch bywyd.

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15 mins
Improve your everyday maths for free article icon

Science, Maths & Technology

Improve your everyday maths for free

The Open University has teamed up with charity National Numeracy to enable everyone to boost their confidence with numbers using the National Numeracy Challenge.

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10 mins
Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years article icon

Health, Sports & Psychology

Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years

Money has had a huge impact on football in the previous 50 years. Simon Rea investigates the key changes over this period to our national game.

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5 mins