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The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below and within the course is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Course image: ibreakstock; Shutterstock.com Every...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Was Alcibiades the Athenian Donald Trump?
History & The Arts

Was Alcibiades the Athenian Donald Trump?

...writings of Athenian historian Thucydides. In the course of narrating the history of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides incorporated many pairs of speeches arguing opposing points of view that reveal how politicians sought to put down, outmaneuver and even humiliate their rivals. Any student of Greek history, like me, cannot but admire the historian’s unparalleled...
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Election days: 1779 - Save Britain from crisis!
History & The Arts

Election days: 1779 - Save Britain from crisis!

...Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776] As Americans shape their own destiny; can Britain survive such a blow? To the independent Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders of Hampshire Inertia et mollita animi alius expectantes cucnctarnini: My virtuous Countrymen, Now is the time for spirited and manly exertion. Our all is at stake. The activity and zeal of every...
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Article 5 mins
Chlorine-washed chicken: An OpenLearn reading list
Money & Business

Chlorine-washed chicken: An OpenLearn reading list

...Writing at the Institute For Government, Oliver Ilott suggests the main barrier to cross is the tariff barrier: A trade deal between the US and UK may attempt to remove tariffs in areas where they are high. These are almost all in agriculture. On the US side, there are 22 import duty rates above 100%, all on agricultural products. This makes some agricultural goods...
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Article 10 mins
Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?
Education & Development

Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?

...write better essays and describe themselves as more focused on school than students in the second kind of group. In short, how students interpret their everyday difficulties with school matters. Is there a pattern? Is there a way to predict how students might interpret difficulty and ease? In the same 1,000-person set of studies, we asked people to rate how much they...
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Simplistic models for understanding Coronavirus: Helpful or harmful?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Simplistic models for understanding Coronavirus: Helpful or harmful?

...writing. He states the UK government’s strategy was not his idea and identifies himself as a Podiatrist, not an epidemiologist. His stated intent is to “amplify the people who ARE experts". By this he means “people like the excellent Prof Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance (as opposed to all the overnight virologists I see in the comments)”. However, these experts...
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Article 15 mins
A bird on the edge: the story of the chough and how it speaks for people
Society, Politics & Law

A bird on the edge: the story of the chough and how it speaks for people

...writing in The Independent at the time stated: The discovery has delighted Cornish nationalists, who are campaigning for a devolved parliament. "This will be seen as a symbol of hope," said Dr Loveday Jenkin of the nationalist party Mebyon Kernow. "The re-emergence of the chough is a symbol of the re-emergence of the Cornish nation." It is hard to think of a stronger...
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Article 10 mins
How is the internet helping ensure parliamentary accountability in Bangladesh?
Digital & Computing

How is the internet helping ensure parliamentary accountability in Bangladesh?

...writes: বলতে দ্বিধা নেই, আমাদের দেশের জনপ্রতিনিধিবৃন্দের অনেকেই নিজেদের জনপ্রতিনিধি কম, রাজা বেশী ভাবতে শুরু করেন সাংসদ নির্বাচিত হবার সাথে...
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