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10 tips to beat the January blues
Health, Sports & Psychology

10 tips to beat the January blues

...out regularly throughout the day and avoiding foods that are high in sugar can have a positive impact on your mood. Plus don’t forget your five a day! Free Course: The science of nutrition and healthy eating 3: Cuddle your dog [Pregnant woman cuddling a dog] Cuddling your furry friend (dog, cat, rabbit...) reduces levels of Cortisol, the hormone that is responsible for...
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Article 10 mins
Walking the walk: improving death and dying spaces
Health, Sports & Psychology

Walking the walk: improving death and dying spaces

...out about The Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. While feedback can inform service improvement, many sites do not have the processes in place to engage bereaved carers in how to improve such spaces. Claire Henry MBE, and Marie Cooper, both nurses with extensive experience and expertise in end-of-life care, and Roberta Lovick, national...
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Article 5 mins
An introduction to interaction design
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to interaction design

...out on the data would be slow by today’s standards. With these characteristics, these computers could only be used comfortably by one person at a time. All this meant that the experience of the user was relatively simple and straightforward, as well as constrained. 40 years later, computers don’t just sit on desktops but have also become embedded in interactive...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
History & The Arts

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

...out about how Hardy uses narration, style and dialogue to create characters and a fictional world that readers can believe in. You will also find out about the important place of religion in Hardy’s work. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A233 Telling stories – the novel and beyond...Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Why are people upset about the Stonewall Movie?
History & The Arts

Why are people upset about the Stonewall Movie?

...out has made the movie a flashpoint in its own right...[The Stonewall Inn, September 1969] The Stonewall Inn in 1969 We've got two personal viewpoint pieces which explain why some people are angered by the Stonewall movie. First, Robyn whose article originally appeared at Voices On The Square under a CC-BY-NC-SA licence reclaims the places of some of those written out of...
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Article 5 mins
Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?
Society, Politics & Law

Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?

...out illegal or harmful content on their platforms – in other words, to proactively police the information posted by users. Last week the Commission delivered part of its answer. It proposed that an important set of platforms – video hosts like DailyMotion or YouTube – should monitor their users and proactively remove content. That's an alarming development. As...
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DIY: Measuring latitude and longitude
Society, Politics & Law

DIY: Measuring latitude and longitude

...out your latitude and longitude...This content is associated with The Open University's Geography courses and qualifications. To pinpoint your position on a map of the world you need to work out your co-ordinates, known as latitude and longitude. Latitude is your position north or south of the Equator. Lines, or parallels, are drawn around the Earth at intervals. The...
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Article 15 mins
Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud
Nature & Environment

Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud

...out about The Open University's Environment courses Cloud technologies continue to be an accelerating factor in digital transformation and innovation, but as the ‘cloud’ is out of sight, the term can portray cloud computing as a lighter-than-air panacea for both computing and the environment – this, though, it is not. Cloud technologies still rely on the same...
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