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How OpenLearn uses third-party content

...health service users; migrants) Extend the geographic range of the subjects of OpenLearn coverage beyond the UK (e.g. democracy in Bangladesh; healthcare in Syria) Include other points of view and/or opinions on subjects covered by OpenLearn The item will be published with links to other, related OpenLearn content on the same or similar subjects, forming part of a package...
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Climate change is triple risk to Europe
Nature & Environment

Climate change is triple risk to Europe

...Health that rising temperatures would bring increasingly dangerous weather extremes. They analysed 2,300 records of disaster events between 1981 and 2010, assumed that there would be no attempts to adapt or mitigate climate change, and then scaled up the possible casualties eight decades from now. By then, the present record-breaking temperatures in southern Europe would...
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Life behind a mask
Health, Sports & Psychology

Life behind a mask

...health, emotional state, personality traits, pleasure or pain. When talking, we rely on reading facial expressions particularly when we don’t understand the verbal language and this may be one of the reasons that some people do not like wearing masks. It is possible that a greater array of multi-modal resources will be used beyond the eyes in ways in which they are...
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Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...for the American Society for Cybernetics. He is currently developing a transdisciplinary appreciation of the need for ocean, earth, water, self-health knowing and systems literacy. Peter resides with his wife Kristina Bishop in Northern Virginia where they juggle work, play, travel and interest in the lives of six children and their spouses and fourteen grandchildren....
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Wanted! Starlings
Nature & Environment

Wanted! Starlings

...health. Control Total eradication of starlings outside their native range is now considered to be impossible, as their numbers are so high, but where they interfere with agriculture or other human activities they may be controlled. Vulnerable crops may be covered with netting to protect them from being eaten and in some cases starlings may be trapped, shot, or poisoned....
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Why asking what causes autism is the wrong question
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why asking what causes autism is the wrong question

...health measures to the development of autism. The most reported, and controversial, link was between the MMR vaccine and development of autism. In 1998, a research paper was published that suggested that the “triple” vaccine against MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) can cause autism in some children. This has been discredited and widely disproved in medical science...
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Who are we? A project about art, migration, politics and identity
History & The Arts

Who are we? A project about art, migration, politics and identity

...health tourists in the company of Eastern European 'experts'. Patrolling, a recent digital conversation for performing borders | LIVE, created by Critical Interruptions, considered borders not as exclusive or oppressive, but as potentially emancipatory and progressive, by imagining events taking place on borders of un- and partially recognised countries in Eastern Europe....
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Personality: A user guide
Health, Sports & Psychology

Personality: A user guide

...health, your sexual promiscuity, your likelihood of divorce, how happy you typically are – even your taste in paintings. Personality is a much better predictor of these things than social class or age. The origin of these differences is in part innate. That is to say, when people are adopted at birth and brought up by new families, their personalities are more similar...
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