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Health, Sports & Psychology
Exploring Psychology
How humans think, develop, and experience the world around us has been fascinating psychologists for over 100 years. The tracks in this album cover a range of case studies, looking at factors which can influence the development of our personalities. What is the impact of significant people in our early lives? How do you go about the process of ...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Working with children and families
This album takes an extensive look at the ins-and-outs of family life and caring for children. It draws on interviews with a wide-ranging selection of professionals, from people who deal directly with children at nurseries or schools to those that help shape national policy, to throw light on national initiatives and schemes such as ChildLine, ...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Diverse perspectives on health and illness
Health, and the health of others, are concerns that impact us all. This album explores notions of health and happiness in relation to the lifestyles people lead and the services and support available to them. The range of information is eclectic and illuminating, offering a rare insight into societal niches from the participants themselves. From...
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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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Health, Sports & Psychology
Recipe: Perfect BBQ Burgers
Try out our recipe from the Ever Wondered About Food series