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Making Faces
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making Faces

...based tool, called Efit V. This tool might transform the process of identifying police suspects. It is being developed to allow law enforcement agencies to produce images of criminal suspects at very short notice at crime scenes revolutionising the process of identification. To find out more, follow the research links... Making Faces Open University cognitive psychologist...
The Dates of the Buddha
History & The Arts

The Dates of the Buddha

...based on the testimony of the Sinhalese chronicles). This first one is sometimes referred to as the Indian chronology and the second one as the Ceylonese chronology. Indian Emperor Ashoka the Great (304–232 BCE), who ruled India from 268 to 232 BCE, seems to have turned Buddhism into a state religion and encouraged Buddhist missionary activity. He also provided a...
How long will you live if you stop eating and drinking?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How long will you live if you stop eating and drinking?

...based sandwich company's return to Finland in 2013] People waited for half-an-hour in a queue when Burger King returned to Finland - but how long would they have been able to last before having to give in and head for a McDonalds? Rita Chretien, a Canadian woman survived being stranded inside a vehicle in Nevada for 48 days, by eating only some trail mix and candy, and...
How did the election look from Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

How did the election look from Europe?

...based around the Labour Party would be arithmetically possible, but to date the party leadership has rejected the idea of doing deals with any other party. Corbyn says he is ready to present a minority government on a Labour platform. Strong and schadenfreude European voices joined critics at home in blaming May for the dramatic reversal in party fortunes. Sweden’s...
Fy llwybr unigryw i’r brifysgol: straeon go iawn
Education & Development

Fy llwybr unigryw i’r brifysgol: straeon go iawn

...De Cymru sy’n rhannu eu profiadau amrywiol, gan gynnwys gofalwyr ifanc, unigolion gydag awtistiaeth a’r rheiny sydd wedi ymuno â’r brifysgol yn hwyrach mewn bywyd...Mae’r gyfres hon o fideos yn dogfennu teithiau myfyrwyr prifysgol o gefndiroedd sy’n cael eu tangynrychioli mewn addysg uwch ar hyn o bryd. Stori Tom Gwrandewch sut y gwnaeth Tom oresgyn heriau...
Buddhist Economics
Society, Politics & Law

Buddhist Economics

...based on the belief that the function of business is to supply goods and services for need and true well-being. Schumacher argued that Buddhist Economics could serve as a vehicle for human development to overcome self centeredness and augment human creativity and knowledge. Presented by Dr Mike Lucas from The Open University Business School and Alan Shipman from the...
Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness

...de-de-de-de. You know, mentally you need to be able to cope with all that pressure and to kind of execute what you’ve done that makes you so good and do it in the most intense situations. Caroline: Pressure is a big part of being involved in a sport so the pressure of, for example, preparing for an Olympic Games in terms of being selected for Olympic Games is a big...
Play, learning and the brain
Education & Development

Play, learning and the brain

...based learning, with a particular focus on the development of the young child's brain, and is of particular relevance to those who work with young children. We begin by looking at the structure and functions of the brain, and the impact that sensory deprivation can have on these. We consider the implications of current understandings of brain development for teaching and...
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