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Herbal medicine
Health, Sports & Psychology

Herbal medicine

...care professional. The BBC and the Open University are not responsible or liable for any diagnosis made by a user based on the content of the OpenLearn website. The BBC and the Open University are not liable for the contents of any external internet sites listed, nor do they endorse any commercial product or service mentioned or advised on any of the sites. Always consult...
Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

...care of the writer. As we saw earlier, the poems by O’Leary and Tynan also focused on the image of the courageous mother. It’s interesting that Ní Dhomhnaill’s poem in fact dramatises two maternal figures - Moses’s birth mother and the Egyptian princess - and you might like to think about the reasons for this. In dialogue with the poet Below we've included an...
The Borders of Astrobiology
Science, Maths & Technology

The Borders of Astrobiology

...care for an environment in which there is no life. However, this is also a question of which peoples’ views are considered. A variety of Indigenous and environmental perspectives have respect and humility toward abiotic nature, typically as part of a holistic moral worldview that respects the wider ecosystem in which the abiotic elements of nature are interlinked with...
Life after sport: giving back
Health, Sports & Psychology

Life after sport: giving back

...care; factors that see them want to give back to both sport and society. These qualities coupled with athletes’ motivation to make a difference make them both desirable employees as well as positive role models. Transferable skills in action Inspired by the desire of athletes to use their transferable skills to help benefit others across society, Lavallee and colleagues...
Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)
Science, Maths & Technology

Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)

...care, there is an increased interest in the heart problems that arise later in life. While the ultimate goal is to cure the disease and allow the affected individuals to lead a normal life, any improvement to length and quality of life is of great importance. This is reflected in the recent advances in research focussing on treatment options for diseases such as CLN3...
The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace

...Care About Mindfulness References Goleman, D. (1995) Emotional Intelligence. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. Fernández-Berrocal, P. and Extremera, N. (2016) ‘Ability emotional intelligence, depression, and well-being', Emotion Review, 8(4), pp. 311–15, doi: 10.1177/1754073916650494. Gohm, C. L., Corser, G. C. and Dalsky, D. J. (2005) ‘Emotional intelligence...
Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual
Education & Development

Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual

...caring, it’s actually the opposite. You realise on graduation day how almost in awe we all are of each other for having those things that make us who we are, that we can shout from the rooftops about and that if we all perfectly understood everything, then there would be no point having different topics to specialise in and the world would be a much, much more boring...
Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future
History & The Arts

Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future

...careful and clear about the way things are depicted in the minds of the next generations. Everybody is telling the same old stories of what Butetown was, what it’s lost, what we can’t do. It’s not that certain problems don’t exist, but what we can do says ten times more. Someone asked me how I felt at the first Carnival in 2014. I looked around and clusters of...