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Money & Business

Working in teams

...children’s centre. They have been working together for three weeks now and are planning an event for the October half-term which will take place in venues across the town and promote reading activities for children focused around the theme of a spooky Halloween. In the next activity, you’ll decide what team types you think John is a member of. Activity 6 Identify the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Can high blood pressure protect the over-80s from dementia?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can high blood pressure protect the over-80s from dementia?

...research apparently contradicts what we thought we knew about blood pressure and dementia. Cheryl Hawkes explains why we might all want to stick in the Goldilocks Zone...It is well known that high blood pressure is a risk factor for dementia, so the results of a new study from the University of California, Irvine, are quite surprising. The researchers found that people...
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Article 5 mins
How do you tell the biological sex of a T-Rex?
Science, Maths & Technology

How do you tell the biological sex of a T-Rex?

...researchers, led by Mary Schweitzer, set out to find using a cool set of chemical and histological (microstructural) tests. One of the great things about medullary bone is that it’s made of calcite, which preserves nicely in the fossil record, so makes it relatively easy to examine and use for sexual identification. As opposed to, say, a penis, which would rot away...
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Article 5 mins
Letter to a Climate Sceptic
Nature & Environment

Letter to a Climate Sceptic

...Research Unit, became symbolic of public mistrust in climate science. In this audio, in the form of an open letter, The Open University’s Dr Joe Smith defends the science behind climate change and argues that “climate change is one of the challenges of the age. One that we will all be judged for”... Letter to a Climate Sceptic Why are people so sceptical about the...
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Audio 8 mins
Spectacular Flirtations
History & The Arts

Spectacular Flirtations

...Open University Art History researcher, Gill Perry takes us through The National Portrait Gallery and explores the relationship between 18th Century art and theatre and the notion of actresses and their portraits as seductive, beguiling objects. Gill also looks at paralells in the ways contemporary female stars use media images to promote themselves as celebrities....
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Video 3 mins
Supporting university students with a mental health condition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting university students with a mental health condition

...research identified academic teachers and teaching practices as well as student services and support as key to student success (Baik et al., 2019) . [Described image] Although the data outlined in the first section demonstrates a high prevalence of students with a mental health condition, Pereira et al. (2019) found that up to 50 per cent of students who identified as...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Geometry
Science, Maths & Technology

Geometry

...centre O on the vertex. The angle can then be read straight from the scale. Here = 40° (not 140°). Be careful to use the correct scale. In this case the angle extends from the line OY up to the line OX, so use the scale that shows OY as 0° – the outer scale in this instance. In the above example, one of the arms of the angle is horizontal. However, sometimes you may...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Irish Women’s Poetry: Eavan Boland
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Eavan Boland

...children in the Dublin suburbs was not represented in the Irish poetry of her day. On top of this, northern poetry about The Troubles was gaining popularity. Boland found a lot of this poetry simplistic. She suggested the truly political poem would be more complex: it would be ‘private at source’ and show how politics seeps into our personal, domestic lives (Boland,...
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Article 5 mins