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Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...thinking about lifestyle and obesity in Activity 1 (i.e. the question ‘Is being overweight related to a person’s lifestyle?’), you might have realised that when considered from the perspective of health and wellbeing the concept is far more complex. In addition, lifestyles go beyond the individual level (Jensen, 2007); for instance, they can be conceived at a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Understanding the AFD: How to make sense of the far-right populists
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding the AFD: How to make sense of the far-right populists

...system. She is certainly not the archetypal leader of a far-right party. At the big table Now that it will sit in the federal parliament, the AfD needs learn how to deal with the challenges of real world political life inside the Bundestag. It has plenty of members who have plenty to say. It is not short of chiefs. But in the Bundestag it needs to find what the Germans...
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Article 5 mins
Plasma arc cutting
Science, Maths & Technology

Plasma arc cutting

...systems. Manufacture An alternative to flame cutting, laser cutting, electrical discharge wire cutting and abrasive jet cutting. Used mainly for profile cutting of metal sheets and slabs up to 200 mm thick, but can also be used for cutting, turning, grooving and piercing holes and slots. “Stand-off” height critical, hence process is often combined with other...
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Understanding tax avoidance
Money & Business

Understanding tax avoidance

...system and the responsibility of corporations to society. This episode of the Bottom Line looks at these timely themes in depth. A deceptively simple question: what is tax avoidance? In particular, how can we distinguish it from tax evasion? Tax avoidance is the legal use of the given system to minimise one’s taxes. It can include loopholes and tax haven. Companies who...
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Article 5 mins
Telegram brief history. Stop
Digital & Computing

Telegram brief history. Stop

...system using pairs of torches, but this doesn't seem to have been widely adopted (the Ancient Greeks were clearly too clever for their contemporaries!). Indeed, it wasn't until the late-18th century that a communications network widely regarded as the precursor to the electrical telegraph came into being. Claude Chappe devised a system of semaphore relay stations which...
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Article 5 mins
The importance of alternative household arrangements
Society, Politics & Law

The importance of alternative household arrangements

...Thinking Allowed examined cultural shifts and changes in the home. Presenter Laurie Taylor took a number of academics, including Open University sociologists Rachel Thompson and Jacqui Gabb, into diverse homes around the country. They spoke to an extended family, a person who lived alone, and a nuclear family. I reflected, at the time, on some of the implications of these...
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The Irish Gothic collection on OpenLearn
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic collection on OpenLearn

...think of the Gothic, you probably do not automatically think of Ireland, but in fact, the Gothic — a cultural form that includes novels, films, art and even computer games — owes a great deal to Irish writers more than 250 years ago. In this resource, you will explore examples of the Irish Gothic from the eighteenth century to the present day and examine the...
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Imagery and metaphor
Money & Business

Imagery and metaphor

...thinking. Employees at a small software company are shown how to access their unconscious minds using the power of imagery, associative thinking and metaphor, to find solutions and creative approaches to their work. Meanwhile at a Neuro-linguistic Programming seminar, participants learn to use metaphor on a deeper level for practical problem-solving. The facilitators also...
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