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Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...system in order to promote wellbeing’ (Shah, 2005, p. 39). Other writers have argued that the holistic concept of wellbeing is more in keeping with the way in which health is seen in the majority of societies and cultures in the world, than is the Westernised medical model (Svalastog et al., 2017). However, some commentators have been more cautious about adopting the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...system, particularly how people were punished for crimes they committed. [A black and white sketch of a street. In the background are several high-rise residential buildings. In the lower half of the image is a large crowd of people. In the immediate foreground, a police officer blows a whistle as he grabs a young man by the collar. The young man’s clothes are patched....
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
The science of sperm
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of sperm

...system - sperm...Find out about The Open University's Biology courses and qualifications THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS FRANK DISCUSSION OF SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE SCIENCE [Sperm] Although I'm a biologist, I rarely think much about what the cloudy white stuff contains, but in fact semen is far more complex than my endearing childhood image of mini tadpoles swimming around in thin...
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Article 15 mins
Archive course extract: Attachment theory
Education & Development

Archive course extract: Attachment theory

...Systems Technician 1st Class Tyrel Maynor, USS Cleveland (LPD 7) Commanding Officer Capt. Frank McCulloch, and Culinary Specialist Seaman Sean Unterdorfer visit a patient at Cleveland's Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital. ] A child gets a visit from the US Navy while in hospital. But long stays in hospital can cause some children to develop attachments to objects...
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Article 10 mins
DIY: Measuring latitude and longitude
Society, Politics & Law

DIY: Measuring latitude and longitude

...system employs 24 standard meridians of longitude 15º apart, starting with the Prime Meridian. The lines all run from the North to the South Pole, at right angles to the Equator. These meridians are the centres of 24 standard time zones. In theory, standard time becomes successively one hour earlier at each 15º longitude west of the Prime Meridian, and one hour later at...
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Article 15 mins
Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America

...system and more than 125 million copies had been published by the 1920s. [McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader (1920 edition). Public domain, New York Public Library.] McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader (1920 edition). The Scots-Irish also contributed to American musical traditions. According to Mick Moloney, a professor of music at New York University, the songs and...
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Article 5 mins
Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences
Science, Maths & Technology

Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences

...systems. These are just a few examples of mathematics in our lives that immediately spring to mind, and I could go on and on. But this is not why mathematics fills me with wonder and awe. All I have said so far is that mathematics is a useful science, perhaps almost as useful as engineering. And that really would be missing the special nature of mathematics. It would be...
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Article 10 mins
Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes

...system. Water companies monitor household level water use, of course. Energy companies look at electricity use and so on. So there's a lot of big data already being collected in a lot of different places now. The data in a small city can also come from sensors in the built environment. So these are sensors that can pick up different kinds of information about the urban...
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