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A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?
OpenLearn Ireland

A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?

...world. 60% of the brain is made up of fat. This fat is essential for your brain to work efficiently. The fattier the brain the healthier it is. Information from the brain travels at 268 miles per hour. When you learn you change the structure of your brain. Multi-tasking is impossible. The brain switches between tasks so quickly it appears as multi-tasking. The average...
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Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis

...world is facing and activism is a kind of a relief for that’ (in Godden et al., 2021). Taking action is a form of problem solving and helps with feelings of powerlessness, leading to a sense of purpose or meaning, improving life satisfaction and increasing hopefulness. These positive emotions can help us to bear the distress we feel when we think about the climate...
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Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...world over the past 50 years, talks of institutions in terms of ‘sets of rules’ (see Box 1). Box 1 Institutions as sets of rules and norms Institutions are sets of ‘rules that structure social interactions in particular ways’, based on knowledge ‘shared by members of the relevant community or society’ (Knight, 1992, p. 2). Compliance to those rules is enforced...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...world and the behaviour of others (Kelley, 1967). Heuristics are mental shortcuts or ‘rules of thumb’. For example, the British Army saying ‘If it moves salute it, if it doesn't paint it white’ is an example of a heuristic. We use heuristics and take shortcuts to reduce the complexity, cost and time taken to make decisions. While the more pessimistic depict us as...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...world for meaning and inspiration...This free course, The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present, highlights the similarities and differences between our modern Games and the Ancient Olympics and explores why today, as we prepare for future Olympics, we still look back at the Classical world for meaning and inspiration. Please note, this course contains some Flash...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
We invented the weekend!
Money & Business

We invented the weekend!

...world over! We’re marking this enormous achievement with a new and imaginative free festival from Salford. The festival of free time MediaCity and Salford Quays, Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th September, 2022. One massive, colourful, exciting weekend of music, theatre, sport, workshops, dancing, laughs, and more to celebrate the joy of free time. [Image showing...
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About Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

About Stories of Change

...world and he has been covering these stories for more than a quarter of a century. Normally he would conduct an interview of a few minutes in order to gather the sentences needed to make a news story for TV or radio. We invited him to do something he had never undertaken before: to record interviews that are as long as they need to be in order to ‘go in deep’ into the...
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In Our Time on Psychology: An OpenLearn listening list
Health, Sports & Psychology

In Our Time on Psychology: An OpenLearn listening list

...world are selfishly seeking to promote their own survival and advancement, how can we explain being kind to others, sometimes at our own expense?" First broadcast: November 2006 Guests: Miranda Fricker; Richard Dawkins; John Dupré Listen to the Altruism episode And listen to Miranda Fricker debating historic injustice Intelligence "The debate still rages as to whether we...
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