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The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'
Health, Sports & Psychology

The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'

...article digs into the research...We start ageing the moment we are born. The process of ageing is demonstrated more significantly when we reach a certain age, the usual benchmark being 65+, but our ageing starts much sooner, and the way ageing demonstrates itself when we are over 65 depends on the decisions we have been making over our life span. The age associated...
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What do we need to know about our memory?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we need to know about our memory?

...article explores...Ageing brings about age-related decline to all our organs and that includes our brain. Our brain is in a sense a central computer where everything that is happening in our bodies and minds gets processed (read more in our article The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'). We do not know exactly how our organs, including the brain, will be affected by...
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53 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Education & Development

53 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...article, Five tips for relaxing during difficult times, and a video on student mental health (see below). Transcripts SYNDICATION AND OTHER SITES We have our sister site OpenLearn Create, which is more international with 48% of users from India and another large chunk from Tanzania and Nigeria. Our YouTube channel has a whopping 291,000 subscribers – the most on any UK...
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10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn
History & The Arts

10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn

...articles outlines the serendipitous nature of Fleming's dicovery: "After returning from a holiday in September 1928, Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming found something unusual in one of his petri dishes of Staphylococcus, the bacteria that causes boils, sore throats, and abscesses. This particular dish was dotted with colonies... apart from one section of mould. The...
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Sylvia Pankhurst: The Expert View
Society, Politics & Law

Sylvia Pankhurst: The Expert View

...article was originally written to accompany The Mark Steel Lectures, a BBC/Open University co-production Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960) was a socialist feminist. She played an important part in the women’s suffrage movement, in socialist and revolutionary politics and was a pioneering force in developing an understanding of imperialism, racism and fascism. During the...
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What is OpenLearn Scotland?
Society, Politics & Law

What is OpenLearn Scotland?

...articles, interactive videos and audio, and broadcast material as a whole demonstrates The Open University's commitment to delivering a curriculum that is appropriate for the differing requirements of each of the countries within the United Kingdom. These open educational resources have been collected and developed from across The Open University's catalogue, chosen...
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Nursing associate career pathways - not just the ‘top-up’
Health, Sports & Psychology

Nursing associate career pathways - not just the ‘top-up’

...University's employability hub can help with career planning and development. Reference and acknowledgement Bates, L. (2019) Developing the nursing associate role in a critical care unit. Clinical Practice. 115 (10): 20-24 The research project informing this OpenLearn article was funded and supported by The Open University’s, Praxis Scholarship and Innovation Centre....
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Why do we need free speech?
History & The Arts

Why do we need free speech?

...2016 [1670]). “Theological-Political Treatise”, in The Collected Works of Spinoza. Volume II, trans. Edwin Curley. Princeton: Princeton University Press. United Nations. (1948). Universal Declaration of Human Rights: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights. Discover more articles like this Study a free course on human rights and politics...
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