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Is there life on Europa?
Science, Maths & Technology

Is there life on Europa?

...system, contain vast liquid water oceans underneath their ice shells. Origin of life So far, we only know of one place where life has arisen, and that’s here on Earth. However, the ocean of Europa offers the possibility of a second abiogenesis (origin of life). Interactions between its ice shell and space, or the ocean and the rocky interior, allow for water-rock...
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More than carbon sinks: Other ways forests can fight climate change
Nature & Environment

More than carbon sinks: Other ways forests can fight climate change

...system or global model at first because of the ‘symptoms’ that they saw—global warming, more violent storms, changing seasons. The answer to why these phenomena, was boiled down to excessive carbon in the atmosphere, which can be minimised by carbon absorption by plants,” Cruz tells SciDev.Net. “The cooling effect of forests, on the other hand, could be observed...
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Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...thinking like a scientist, by using numbers to describe and understand the natural world. It might be the size of the Greenland ice sheet, the number of molecules in a raindrop, or the latest set of mind-boggling numbers about climate change presented in the media. No longer will you be put off by averages or percentages, and you'll even learn to love negative numbers....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Murals in Belfast
OpenLearn Ireland

Murals in Belfast

...think, what communities fear, what the odds are for communities to find a new vision to replace an old vision, and so that they are wonderful tool for that. Audio [Protestant Prince William of Orange – King Billy – crossing the River Boyne]For cultural historian and museum exhibition designer Judy Vannais (2001), there are two separate traditions of mural painting in...
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Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...Think about how you might start a conversation with adult learners about their mental health. From the grid below, note the elements which you feel are important. Are there any which particularly resonate with you? Why do you think that is? Providing an interruption-free environment Employing gentle persistence Ensuring safe, non-triggering conversations Using positive...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective
Society, Politics & Law

The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective

...think of the ways in which this mind-body dualism may be overcome such that we might recognise the importance of bodies in our lived experience of the world. After watching the following video clips, which will provide an introduction to the phenomenological perspective, work through the rest of the course to look at how this comes to be applied to a substantive topic:...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Approaching leadership with care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Approaching leadership with care

...system, and she now sits in the House of Lords. [Described image] Figure 3: ‘I feel that our movement, the disability movement, is an emancipation agenda. I see it like apartheid. It’s not just ramps and access, it’s deeply rooted in attitudes.’ (Lady Jane Campbell, quoted in Birkett, 2009) Martin Luther King and Lady Jane Campbell both show how leadership is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...system. Putting these pieces of the jigsaw together, current thinking is that stress, via the effects of glucocorticoid hormones, leads to a decline in hippocampal function (through some combination of decline in hippocampal neurogenesis and increase in hippocampal atrophy), and that hippocampal dysfunction is linked to some of the symptoms of depression. Given what you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs