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An introduction to death, dying and grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to death, dying and grief

...history, people including philosophers, theologians and artists have attempted to address these questions. More recently, scientists and medics have had a significant impact upon how people (particularly in the West) understand death, dying and grief. Our understandings of death have also been influenced by the work of social scientists and ‘thanatologists’ (people...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...history on a PowerPoint and inviting the children to make theirs Inviting the children to draw you as a reader: what do they know? Discussing and exploring the rights of readers (Pennac, 2006) Exploring your reading habits: where, when, what do you like to read? Do you doodle, turn pages down, re-read sections, read the end first? Discussing your own and the children’s...
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Article 10 mins
Introduction to Arabic
Education & Development

Introduction to Arabic

...history of the Arabic language...This free OpenLearn course is a two week pre-course for the Open University short course Introduction to Arabic Language and Culture by the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures. Completing this course will take you about four hours. This course focuses on the most basic steps in learning Arabic: you will learn the alphabet, vowels, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Who belongs to Glasgow?
Society, Politics & Law

Who belongs to Glasgow?

...history has also been reflected in many of the images and representations of the city over the decades. Another image which developed during this period was that Glasgow was a very violent place. This is reflected in the novel No Mean City, written when the city was gripped by the inter-war slump and depression. This image and representation of Glasgow has dominated much...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
David Bowie and science fiction
History & The Arts

David Bowie and science fiction

...London Falling, New Worlds and its writers were part of the make-up of Swinging London, and, under the influence of psychedelic drugs, bands such as Pink Floyd (of which Bowie was a fan) were taking sf imagery into their work. As with so much else in the late twentieth century, it will be impossible to write the history of sf without mentioning Bowie. More on David Bowie...
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Article 5 mins
Would Donald Trump's wall work to reduce migration from Mexico?
Society, Politics & Law

Would Donald Trump's wall work to reduce migration from Mexico?

...histories of about 150,000 Mexican nationals who had lived for at least a time in the US and compared them with border policy. They found that: More border enforcement changed where migrants crossed into the US, but not whether they did. More migrants were apprehended, but this simply increased the number of times they had to try to get across. It didn’t slow the flow....
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Article 5 mins
Britain's Billion Year Journey
Science, Maths & Technology

Britain's Billion Year Journey

...history and geographical position of Britain can be traced back one billion years. Follow Britain’s journey through time...Find out more about The Open University's Science courses and qualifications Rodinia - the first supercontinent Between one billion and 620 million years ago, the continental crust that would one day be known as Britain formed tiny parts of a giant...
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Article 5 mins
Just six numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Just six numbers

...history of our galaxy, all the atoms from which we are made have originated from the pristine hydrogen in stars, so we're quite literally the ashes of long dead stars, or, to put it another way less romantically, the nuclear waste of the fuel that made those stars shine. Martin says that when we look around at our terrestrial environment and at the cosmos we realize that...
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Article 5 mins