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The Birth of Comedy
History & The Arts

The Birth of Comedy

...educate and entertain the growing audience of citizens. However Greek theatre wasn’t a quiet entertainment but a rowdy, competitive sport involving teams of performers battling each other for prizes... Creating a Spectacle: Theatre in Ancient Athens Why was theatre-going so important to the Athenians? James Robson, Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at The Open...
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The Arts and Creativity
Education & Development

The Arts and Creativity

...educational challenge for myself. I would consider studying the OpenLearn courses below to help me discover and understand more about the following: What will make me an effective student and how best to learn online and become a distance learning student. How the topics I’m interested in might overlap and relate to each other. Learning about the past and what has been...
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How can I support bereaved neurodivergent children?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can I support bereaved neurodivergent children?

...are death workers and death educators, and have experience in supporting bereaved neurodivergent children and families. DEAD GOOD retains the copyright for the images used. The Grieving Divergently pilot project work has been supported by funding from the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness. [The Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness logo.]...
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Explainer: What is autophagy?
Science, Maths & Technology

Explainer: What is autophagy?

...Technology) for the discovery of the mechanism for autophagy, one of the key ways in which the cells in our body destroy and recycle unwanted or damaged cellular material. What is autophagy? In order for the cells in our body to function correctly, they continually renew the vital internal machinery necessary for them to survive. To balance this, there must exist...
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New free courses and hobbies to try while Coronavirus restrictions are in place
Miscellaneous

New free courses and hobbies to try while Coronavirus restrictions are in place

...Technology, Engineering or Maths (STEM), feast your eyes on our interactive toolkit. You can also check out our full collection of badged open courses on employability. Choose health Quarantine is bound to have an impact on our physical and mental health. Maybe you'd like to use this as an opportunity to go on health kick, or maybe you want to concentrate on your mental...
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Is ‘fake news’ still a problem for society?
Society, Politics & Law

Is ‘fake news’ still a problem for society?

...The issues of how reliable information gets pushed out by false information, of how news reporting can be corrupted by propaganda, of how we manage the outsized role that social media and digital technologies now play in our lives. These are all going to continue as pressing issues that society needs to address, whatever term we might decide to use to describe them....
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Green care: contact with nature can improve mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Green care: contact with nature can improve mental health

...technology, retail, leisure and manufacturing as the rest of the population. Also, farming and gardening work used to be a feature of some of the old asylums and so did not seem so appropriate in the age of ‘care in the community’. So it is interesting that we now seem to have come full circle with the benefits of working outdoors being increasingly recognised by...
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Working for health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Working for health

...technology. Surviving mental healthcare A member of the All Wales User/Survivor Network challenges the medical model used by many health professionals to treat people with mental health issues. The Findhorn Community Members of the Findhorn community in Scotland talk about their holistic approach to health and healthcare. Quality of health Homeless people share personal...
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