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Do animals have sex for fun?
Nature & Environment

Do animals have sex for fun?

...Open University's Science courses and qualifications. There’s an idea circulating that humans are the only animal to experience sexual pleasure; that we approach sex in a way that is distinct from others. As with many questions about sex, this exposes some interesting facts about the way we discuss the subject. [Snails having sex] On one level, the question of whether...
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How afraid of death are we?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How afraid of death are we?

...open Pandora’s box. So what should we make of these new efforts to demystify death and dying through conversation? It is hard to say. Increasing death’s profile in our imaginations, private and public, might make us all more punitive and prejudiced, as the research found. But then perhaps we get these negative effects precisely because we are unaccustomed to thinking...
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Enabling parents to improve children’s services: Walking the Walk in Evelina London Children’s Hospital
Health, Sports & Psychology

Enabling parents to improve children’s services: Walking the Walk in Evelina London Children’s Hospital

...Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. Walking the Walk is an experienced-based approach to quality improvement. It has previously been successfully utilised in acute hospitals, care homes, and GP surgeries. It draws on people’s lived experiences to provide settings with feedback and recommendations about the care environment. It involves...
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Political grief: understanding an emerging phenomenon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Political grief: understanding an emerging phenomenon

...Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. Politics, it has been said, is the art of the possible. One aspect of possibility when it comes to politics that is starting to receive the attention it deserves is the potential for political events, processes, or ideologies to give rise to grief, and grief of major proportions. This is what is...
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Does the universe have a heartbeat? The science of cosmic connection
Science, Maths & Technology

Does the universe have a heartbeat? The science of cosmic connection

...Open University Professor) noticed a ‘bit of scruff’ on her radio telescope charts. It was a signal from deep space that pulsed every 1.3 seconds (Hewish et al., 1968). She had discovered a Neutron Star. This is the crushed core of a massive star that ran out of fuel. Imagine a star heavier than our Sun squeezed into a ball the size of a city (about 20km wide)....
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Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background

...source of examples for studying the voice leading at the foreground and middleground of the harmony, so Beethoven's Eighth Symphony is also an ideal work in which to start to consider the largest-scale stage of voice-leading analysis. This course requires you to switch between several different formats of material. This reflects the particular nature of analysis, where...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...Open University postgraduate course TB872 Managing change with systems thinking in practice. ...Week 1: Practising systems thinking in practice: Introduction - Welcome to the first part of this free course Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP). This course provides an introduction to the field of practice called systems thinking in practice, or STiP. Systems...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The ethics and politics of the migration and refugee crisis
Society, Politics & Law

The ethics and politics of the migration and refugee crisis

...Open University Below you can also access an example of a prior collaboration among academics from The Open University, Oxford University and the Migration Museum Project, International Organization for Migration (IOM) and ACTREAL who together worked on the ethics and politics of the refugee crisis. We ran an exhibition with the Migration Museum, a theatre project with...
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