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The why and how of green social prescribing in aid of health ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

The why and how of green social prescribing in aid of health ageing

...podcast. Health professionals encourage people to get outdoors as part of preventative action and treatment. In fact, there is a term for such integration of outdoor activities – ‘Green Social Prescribing’. The NHS defines Green Social Prescribing as the practice of supporting people to engage in nature-based interventions and activities to improve their mental and...
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Department for Work & Pensions
Education & Development

Department for Work & Pensions

...with leading providers of online education, the DWP are promoting resources that will benefit learners everywhere. They have selected these OpenLearn courses to enhance your digital and employability skills, so you can prepare more effectively to achieve your career aspirations. There are also courses to help you improve your functional English and Mathematics skills....
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International Management
Money & Business

International Management

...across national boundaries and with multi-cultural groups is a skilled activity. Some of the required skills are learned, through experience and study, but others are more innate. In this podcast we will break down the ways that multinational organizations are measuring these skills, and we will hear from the managers and academics who have practical advice to dispense....
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General Election 2015 - 79Rewind
Society, Politics & Law

General Election 2015 - 79Rewind

...podcast 'Pitfalls of Polls' Find out what happens when polls collide 7 days: Teachers go Tory as '79 NOP poll showed 52% of sample supported Thatcher. Dr Frank Monaghan discusses Education and the General Election of 1979 Alan Shipman explains how Teachers were not the only unionised, previously Labour-loyal employees who were switching towards the Conservatives in 1979 9...
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The sound of silence
Science, Maths & Technology

The sound of silence

...forms part of The Open University course MU120 Open mathematics... The sound of silence introduction An introduction to The Sound of Silence Waves and harmonics Understand how a musical note is made up by plotting amplitude against time. Recreating sounds We take a trip to the Anglia polytechnic university of music theory to see if we can recreate the sound of a saxophone...
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Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre
Science, Maths & Technology

Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre

...Mathematics courses. Periodic tiles Imagine tiling your bathroom with square tiles. Square tiles will fit together perfectly to cover the whole wall. In fact, if you had infinitely many square tiles, you could use them to cover an infinite flat surface. The downside is that the pattern is quite boring. In fact, if you take a copy of the pattern, and slide it to the right,...
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Grad, Div and Curl
Science, Maths & Technology

Grad, Div and Curl

...Mathematical methods and models... Grad, Div and Curl A short introduction to this album. Grad Introduction to this gradient vector. What is meant by 'steepness of a path' on a hillside. Div Introduction to the divergence div. Heat flow and temperature distribution inside a modern nuclear reactor. Curl Introduction to this vector operation through the context of modelling...
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Phoenix on Mars!
Science, Maths & Technology

Phoenix on Mars!

...podcasts and then waking up in the wee small hours to see the first images I was rather bleary-eyed for Bank Holiday Monday. As a geologist on the Beagle2 project I've experienced the pain when your lander heads down towards the surface and is never heard from again, so I was immensely pleased that Phoenix made it. [Descent of the Phoenix Lander] MRO's HiRISE camera...
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