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The Science of Fear
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Science of Fear

...article explores the science behind fear...[Little miss muffet screaming at a spider] A fear of spiders is one of the common phobias Does the feeling of fear reside in the body or the brain? That is, do we first react to something with our bodies, notice our reaction and accordingly feel fear, or do we consciously acknowledge that something is threatening and then react...
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Will the next Secretary-General of the United Nations be a woman?
Society, Politics & Law

Will the next Secretary-General of the United Nations be a woman?

...Article 97 of the Charter states that the General Assembly should appoint the Secretary-General on the recommendation of the Security Council. All 15 members of the Security Council vote on whether they think candidates nominated by member states are worthy of the job. A candidate is only successful if nine Security Council members and all five permanent members vote...
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Balloon releases – a touching celebration or an environmental tragedy?
Nature & Environment

Balloon releases – a touching celebration or an environmental tragedy?

...for them, with similar or less expense to balloon releases: Blowing bubbles Painting stones with messages Throwing natural confetti made from flower petals Flying a kite This article was inspired by watching a balloon release at a funeral. You can learn more about funerals by watching Stacey Dooley: Inside the Undertakers and following the OU’s content on OU Connect....
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Home education as a provocation for the future of education
Education & Development

Home education as a provocation for the future of education

...et al., 2022; and Unger Madar and BenDavid-Hadar, 2022). However, it is noteworthy that evaluating the variety of social and academic ‘outcomes’ of home education is challenging. Standardised measures of attainment are not reliable assessment tools because of the bespoke and informal nature of curricula, methods of ‘teaching’ and learning associated with home...
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Plato, opinions and the statues of Daedalus
History & The Arts

Plato, opinions and the statues of Daedalus

...articles and began to write philosophical dramas, set in the 1980s perhaps, and featuring Margaret Thatcher, Stephen Hawking or David Bowie. [Plato statue at the Academy of Athens building in Athens, Greece] Marble statue of the ancient Greek Philosopher Plato. Academy of Athens,Greece. Plato’s earlier dialogues have some other distinctive features. The discussion is...
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Stoke-on-Trent, where they’re loving angels instead...
History & The Arts

Stoke-on-Trent, where they’re loving angels instead...

...article in the Staffordshire Daily Sentinel in 1873. Since then, the city has enjoyed a rich and vibrant Spiritualist history with some well-known faces. It was birthplace and home to the longest serving President of the Spiritualists’ National Union, Gordon Higginson, who was born in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent in 1918. His mother, Fanny, was already an established medium...
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Getting started with a Password Manager
Digital & Computing

Getting started with a Password Manager

...article to obtain the necessary version of the software. After installing LastPass, log-in to your existing LastPass account – you do not need to create another account for each machine – and the application will automatically download any saved passwords to that device. One word of warning, for security reasons LastPass will send you an email asking you to...
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Working as a researcher | Developing research and study skills
Education & Development

Working as a researcher | Developing research and study skills

...articles … take the time to learn how to search. [EdD graduate] I have set up Google Scholar to be connected to the library which I find ever so handy because Google Scholar I often find more convenient to search for things within, and then just a little click of a button and I am back in the OU library. [EdD student, Year 3] Points for you to consider: How good are...
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