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Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...human beings are not machines that respond in predictable, impartial ways to their situation and environment(s), so what of the unquantifiable elements of being human? In particular, what account is taken of the emotional component and how it plays a significant part in the experience of health, illness and dying? When someone is dying, the relationship between the health...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Seeing the internet
Digital & Computing

Seeing the internet

...human societies have always created data, digital technologies are now gathering it as a speed and volume that is unprecedented historically. Some scholars and campaigners, however, are worried that, while we're very familiar with digital screens and do lots of things with them, most of us are much less aware of the data that they gather, who owns that data, where it goes...
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Article 10 mins
Fast Reactors and Thorium
Science, Maths & Technology

Fast Reactors and Thorium

...resources. This information gap may have a role in explaining the apparent shortfall in reported thorium reserves. Thorium is termed a ‘fertile’ nuclear fuel; that is, fissile material must be created in order for fission to occur. Furthermore, unlike uranium, thorium essentially occurs naturally in only one isotopic form (thorium-232). More than 99.99% of naturally...
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Article 10 mins
Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story
Society, Politics & Law

Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story

...human beings, and reinforced by social practices, which includes the belief that some roles and behaviours are more appropriate and suited to certain genders. People are socialised into gender roles within their societies from a very young age. For example, in Western societies, girls were traditionally given dolls and prams to play with, which would strengthen the idea...
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Article 10 mins
Introducing mammals
Nature & Environment

Introducing mammals

...humans (another mammal) more than any other animal group. The study of mammals displays their rich diversity, but also highlights the common features that define the group. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Environment & Development...Introducing mammals: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...human race has gone out before him, sunk the hills, filled the hollows, and bridged the rivers. Men, nations, poets, artisans, women, all have worked for him, and he enters into their labors. Choose any other thing, out of the line of tendency, out of the national feeling and history, and he would have all to do for himself: his powers would be expended in the first...
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Article 15 mins
Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision

...human being, but that doesn’t mean you’ve got the right to do it. And as I say, that’s not sounding like a cop out. I think if you want to factor it from the ground up, that’s great and you probably have to ask those questions more seriously of yourself if you’re not doing it, but with certain programmes that just is not the expectation, so if you have got a...
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Video 30 mins
Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children
Education & Development

Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children

...resource for their families. Indeed, three of the nine interviewees stated that they had retrained as SEND specialists in order to compensate for the lack of support available for their children and yet even this had not been enough to help them circumnavigate the many barriers to appropriate provision. Key themes that emerged from this ‘tapestry of Black women’s...
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Article 5 mins