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The physical impacts of ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

The physical impacts of ADHD

...write anonymously due to previous experiences of stigma in the workplace in relation to their ADHD. Random bruises – from accidentally knocking into door handles to more regularly having minor accidents, ADHD can impact how people move about in the world and the risks they take. It is not uncommon for me to find that I have bruises of ‘unknown origin’ as I can’t...
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Article 5 mins
Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga
History & The Arts

Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga

...writing says he’ll do his best for you along with his horses ‘Amiable’ and ‘Jovial’. / The chariot races in the circus were particularly popular in North African cities and were a focus of spectacle, gambling and rivalry. Prizes were awarded in a bronze trophy. / An amphitheatre has not yet been located in Thugga, and so the Circus remains the only public...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...Creative good feelings about unhealthy food). This creates the impression that it is quite the norm for children to eat such foods frequently – when in fact the opposite is what’s recommended. Furthermore, these ads create powerful emotional associations with such foods, with imagery and stories that evoke delicious tastes and aromas, fun, magic, imagination, humour...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list

...writing in Foreign Affairs, suggested that the knowledge that secrecy might be a thing of the past should lead to a remaking of state behaviour: Manning's and [Edward] Snowden's leaks mark the beginning of a new era in which the U.S. government can no longer count on keeping its secret behavior secret. Hundreds of thousands of Americans today have access to classified...
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Article 5 mins
Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life
History & The Arts

Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life

...writings I advocated, what to me was the only truth, that it was necessary to live in such a way as to derive the greatest comfort for oneself and one’s family. Thus I proceeded to live, but five years ago something very strange began to happen to me: I was overcome by minutes at first of perplexity and then of an arrest of life, as though I did not know how to live or...
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Article 15 mins
The working-class garden
Society, Politics & Law

The working-class garden

...writing about, what was in this book and who was it addressed to? Margaret Willes: Wel he was writing to his country cousins, about how they should run their farm, how they should farm, how they should till their fields - but also how they should look after their gardens. And husbandry and gardening are absolutely intertwined at this period. Laurie Taylor: And you say in...
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Article 15 mins
Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching
Education & Development

Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching

...writing or painting about issues of race and ethnicity, and not just in Black History Month or South Asian Heritage Month. Critics of multiculturalism have called it the 3 Ss: saris, steel drums and samosas. It’s argued that it gives us a false idea of culture as simply about colourful artefacts. It doesn’t engage in a critique of the underlying discriminatory...
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Article 10 mins
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...writing and the public performance of creative works in Gaelic. The Books Council can advise on all matters relating to Gaelic books, publishing and learning resources. Its stated vision is to secure a sustainable future for Gaelic literature and publishing in Scotland, increasing the number and readership of Gaelic books in a variety of genres, helping to increase the...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs