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Larry Achiampong – Challenging Colonial Narratives with Art
History & The Arts

Larry Achiampong – Challenging Colonial Narratives with Art

...humanity. His work spans various media, including video, installation, and performance, allowing him to engage with audiences in diverse ways. He blends personal narrative and collective memory, often drawing on his Ghanaian heritage while addressing broader socio-political issues and raising important questions about the legacies of colonialism. Using digital media...
Working for health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Working for health

...human health, and will enable you to appreciate and review your own and alternative standpoints and values in this important area of study. This material forms part of The Open University course K203 Working for health... Working for health A short introduction to this album. Radical midwives London midwives talk about their rebellion against new practices within the NHS,...
Audio 2 hrs 33 mins
Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake
Science, Maths & Technology

Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake

...human beings. So that is presently our population is about ten to the 10th human being. So this would be ten to the 12th. That’s a million million times, not a million million more people but a million million times more people than we have today. That sounds like enough. And you can do it with resources that are available in our own system from the asteroids and things...
Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities

...resources that are useful to do this. Links to useful sources of information and organisations are provided throughout. You can work through the course at your own pace and choose which sections and activities you want to do. Although the estimated completion time is four hours, if you are pushed for time do not feel you have to do all the activities. Sessions 2 and 3...
How the sausage links us together
History & The Arts

How the sausage links us together

...human cookery yet retain currency as a barometer of cultural and political activity. Its independent emergence in different parts of the world reminds us that human creativity itself did not emerge from a single place such as the Fertile Crescent, but rather developed, alongside agriculture and pastoralism, in a variety of cultural settings. [The Conversation]The politics...
Protest Banners: Trade Union
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Trade Union

...human cost of WW1 was the loss of millions of working class lives. There was a new mood of militancy in Europe reinforced by a revolutionary surge in Russia. Soviet posters depicted toiling masses with outstretched arms being ground down by larger than life, wealthy and heartless capitalists (they might even come in threes!) And Lenin and the leadership of the Bolshevik...
Older carers, COVID-19 and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Older carers, COVID-19 and physical activity

...human function and performance deterioration of body systems. However, they also cite that the effects of ageing can be delayed/offset with physical activity. Just because we reach a certain number/milestone birthday, or enter into retirement does not mean we have to adopt a sedentary lifestyle, and reflect on what we once could do. On the contrary the physiologic and...
The science of making musical instruments
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of making musical instruments

...human ear or recording device and is called a sound wave. [sound source] [longitudinal sound waves] Flow of longitudinal sound waves Sound travels in the same way whether it is music or noise. The difference between music and noise is that musical sounds are organised into patterns that have pitch and rhythm whereas noise is just random, disorganised sounds. A particular...