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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...
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Article 10 mins
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...
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Article 5 mins
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...
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Article 10 mins
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...
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Article 10 mins
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...
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Article 10 mins
Modern slavery
Society, Politics & Law

Modern slavery

...adult? [Described image] Figure 7 Share of child victims detected by region, 2007–2010 Comment Children amount to 68 per cent of the victims of trafficking in Africa and in the Middle East. In contrast, in Europe and Central Asia, children constitute only 16 per cent of the overall number of victims. The majority of victims in Europe and Central Asia are adults (84 per...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
The technology of crime control
Society, Politics & Law

The technology of crime control

...careful than talking in kind of paranoid terms about nightmares and distopias .. It's in a way it's too important for that, what we have to recognise is that there is you know a really quite major historical development taking place, and we have to make some fairly basic political decisions I suppose, about how as a society we wish to respond to those developments. These...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...CARE RAGE FEAR PANIC/GRIEF (note that Panksepp originally labelled this ‘PANIC’, but his later work re-conceptualised it as ‘GRIEF’). According to Panksepp’s theory, SEEKING, PLAY, LUST and CARE are all ‘positive’ emotions, in that they are rewarding and motivate the animal to continue a behaviour or seek out a stimulus. RAGE, FEAR and PANIC/GRIEF, on the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs