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Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study

...careful use of language to convey that there are often uncertainties in claimed facts or arguments. For example, you have already heard how ‘claims’ can be a useful term. Also, use of hedging words (such as ‘maybe’, ‘appear to’, ‘perhaps’, ‘indicate’, ‘suggest’, ‘sometimes’, ‘often’, ‘mostly’ ‘partly’ or ‘probably’) can ensure...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes
History & The Arts

Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes

...care less about our departed loved ones. Philippe Ariès, a French historian, famously claimed that this reduction in the rituals that used to surround death in traditional communities is caused by, and implicitly is causing, an inability to deal with the death of our loved ones. So, what do we modern humans do about life’s big transitions, and what does this mean?...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...care towards employees, customers, and the general public...In this free course, Software and the law, you'll look at the laws relevant to software and its use, taking a global perspective. A major part of this course is devoted to intellectual-property law, the issue of who owns software and digital content and how that ownership can be protected using instruments like...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...adults under the age of 30) will have their operations performed using the drug. “I think lots of other people are trying to find out the difference between brain cancer and normal tissue, but they don’t know what to do with the information when they get it,” Olson says. “They publish their paper and then they move on to the next thing.” He hopes tumour paint...
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Article 5 mins
Stonehenge before the First World War
History & The Arts

Stonehenge before the First World War

...adult mind. The most amusing instance of a false picture of something seen in childhood and continuing through life I have met was that of an Italian peasant I knew in South America. He liked to talk to me about the cranes, those great and wonderful birds he had become acquainted with in childhood in his home on the plains of Lombardy. The birds, of course, only appeared...
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Article 10 mins
The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies
Health, Sports & Psychology

The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies

...adults who as children had lived through the worst period of Troubles-related violence (from 1970 to 1977) as the age group that experienced the most rapid rise in suicides in the decade after 1998. It seems obvious that this group, the middle-aged who’d seen the worst of the Troubles, would be affected. But what about teenagers, people like Jonny? We were the Ceasefire...
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Article 15 mins
Wales and rugby
Society, Politics & Law

Wales and rugby

...think it needs to be more discriminating and treat its audience sometimes as adults rather than just stupid fanatic. This audio is an extract from The Open University free taster course Contemporary Wales. If you want to study formally with us, you may wish to explore more courses we offer in this subject area. This material is also available in Welsh on OpenLearn Cymru....
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Audio 20 mins
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...careful, people will sit back and allow me to do it all. So I have to be really, really careful about making sure that I involve people from the beginning. I work for a charity that works with people who have a disability. And so what I try and do is encourage them, the users of the service, to become involved in any new project from the beginning, so consulting them,...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs