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Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help

...Health and Wellbeing courses. Population ageing is a rising trend globally, with declining fertility rates and an increase in life expectancy. The UN estimates there have never been more aged people in the world than today. This means it is increasingly important that ageing well is given priority. What is ageing [A very elderly lady, full face shot showing lots of...
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Foreign games consoles finally enter the Chinese market
Money & Business

Foreign games consoles finally enter the Chinese market

...health. In 2000, the State Council published a notice, joined by the Ministry of Culture and another seven administrative departments, decreeing the prohibition of manufacturing and selling game consoles in mainland China, claiming it “seriously jeopardizes young people and disturbs the social order.” This is an excerpt from the notice:
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A brief history of Harlem
Society, Politics & Law

A brief history of Harlem

...publicity and alarm amongst owners of neighbouring properties. These owners could often be relied upon to bail out quickly, allowing the blockbuster to acquire their properties cheaply; these, too, would be rented to black families. With a relatively poor section of society being asked to pay relatively high rents, the consequence was a sardine-can like squeezing of...
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Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...public interest. More often than not, repression of what is deemed private is much stronger than what is said to be of public significance, making this repression less contested as well. Similarly, hackers’ targeting of information and communication infrastructure is depoliticized, or delegitimized under criminal conspiracy acts. Instead you claim that contemporary...
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Article 15 mins
Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision

...public archives, as well as the conservation of king cobras, environmental filmmakers around the world, and the box office success of River Monsters. ...Harry Marshall Harry is the Creative Director of Icon Films – a long established award-winning, UK independent production company. Over the last 25 years Icon Films has produced over 290 hours of high-end factual...
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Judicial decision making
Society, Politics & Law

Judicial decision making

...public interest immunity’ is a process recognised by common law rules where the government can apply to a court to exclude evidence that would otherwise be used because the government believes it would harm the public interest. The evidence might put an informer’s life at risk if disclosed, or it might harm national security. Just before World War II, an experimental...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
52 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

52 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...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 264,000 subscribers – the most on any UK university YouTube account. We have a Facebook and Twitter account with over 22K...
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53 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Education & Development

53 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...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 university YouTube account. We have a Facebook and Twitter account with over 25K...
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