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What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...health and criminal justice. Through the activities in the course, you will experience a wide range of historical evidence and understand its importance for historians in constructing new knowledge...What do historians do? In this free course you will explore some of the ways that historians work to develop our understanding of the past. You will learn about three aspects...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Ethics in science?
Science, Maths & Technology

Ethics in science?

...Health Service (NHS) website and then answer the questions that follow. Navigate around the website reading information that interests you and taking note especially of the following areas: What happens in a clinical trial? How are clinical trials regulated and judged to be ethical? How many phases are there to a clinical trial and what happens in each phase? Clinical...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
How did Fidel Castro shape Cuba's history?
History & The Arts

How did Fidel Castro shape Cuba's history?

...health began to deteriorate, but his legacy, both within Cuba and internationally, is hard to overestimate. This is the man who led a small band of guerrilla fighters to power in the late 1950s, outlasted nine US presidents and ended up at the centre of the most dangerous moment in the Cold War. He even holds the record for the longest speech at the United Nations. In...
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Article 5 mins
How OpenLearn uses third-party content
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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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Article 5 mins
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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Article 5 mins
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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Article 10 mins
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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Article 5 mins