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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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Health, Sports & Psychology
International Adoption
Open University Professor Monica Dowling looks at the effects of globalisation and the differences between 'qualitative' and 'quantitative' research and information in adoption.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Making Faces
Open University cognitive psychologist Graham Pike describes how his interest in facial compositing has led to a collaboration resulting in a computer based tool, called Efit V. This tool might transform the process of identifying police suspects. It is being developed to allow law enforcement agencies to produce images of criminal suspects at ...
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Nature & Environment
Explore your digestive system
An interactive exploration of how the digestive system works
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Recipe: Mushroom bhaji
Try out our recipe from the Ever Wondered About Food series
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Recipe: Tiramisu
Try out our recipe from the Ever Wondered About Food series
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Global diets
As the range of different restaurants serving different culture's cuisines suggests, the world does not approach each food stuff with a single mind. Discover how different foods are approached differently in different countries with our global diet map.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Recipe: Seafood pasta
Conchiglie steeped, with the fishes
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Recipe: Perfect BBQ Burgers
Try out our recipe from the Ever Wondered About Food series
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Recipe: Moules mariniere
Improve your mussels without breaking a sweat
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Recipe: Calamari with lemon mayonnaise
The secret to a supreme squid supper
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Pasture to plate
However hungry you are, you wouldn't be able to get much nutritional value out of a field of corn without a spot of processing to make something edible. Find out how food makes it from pasture to plate.