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Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...health cases stress is more prevalent in public sector occupations. The HSE reports that stress due to workload pressures included meeting tight deadlines, too much responsibility and a lack of support...Week 8: Understanding stress and conflict: 1.1 Causes of stress - The exact causes of stress are often difficult to pin down. Someone might think that work is the root of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...public in their enthusiasm to say that we shouldn't clone a human being, because we don't know that we are safe. We have told the public that cloned animals have this and that problem, but in reality, in most cases, like in cattle cloning, the problems that we are seeing, are not related to cloning. The abnormalities relate to the procedure of having an embryo growing in...
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Article 30 mins
What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...publications, print advertisements, billboards, workplaces, newspapers, state-funded schools and commercial contracts. We might also think of the suggestion by French president Nicolas Sarkozy (president 2007–) in 2008 that the correct methods for preparing classic items of French cuisine might be considered for protection as part of the UNESCO World Heritage List. At...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The many guises of the emperor Augustus
History & The Arts

The many guises of the emperor Augustus

...public relations, in which portraiture and imagery played a key role. This allowed him to represent himself in a range of guises to appeal to as many people as possible. Dress can be an important tool for portraying oneself in a particular way, in the Roman period just as it is now, and it is largely through dress that Augustus was able to create his various guises. He...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
How did Fidel Castro shape Cuba's history?
History & The Arts

How did Fidel Castro shape Cuba's history?

...health began to deteriorate, but his legacy, both within Cuba and internationally, is hard to overestimate. This is the man who led a small band of guerrilla fighters to power in the late 1950s, outlasted nine US presidents and ended up at the centre of the most dangerous moment in the Cold War. He even holds the record for the longest speech at the United Nations. In...
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Article 5 mins
Climate change is triple risk to Europe
Nature & Environment

Climate change is triple risk to Europe

...Health that rising temperatures would bring increasingly dangerous weather extremes. They analysed 2,300 records of disaster events between 1981 and 2010, assumed that there would be no attempts to adapt or mitigate climate change, and then scaled up the possible casualties eight decades from now. By then, the present record-breaking temperatures in southern Europe would...
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Article 5 mins
Life behind a mask
Health, Sports & Psychology

Life behind a mask

...health, emotional state, personality traits, pleasure or pain. When talking, we rely on reading facial expressions particularly when we don’t understand the verbal language and this may be one of the reasons that some people do not like wearing masks. It is possible that a greater array of multi-modal resources will be used beyond the eyes in ways in which they are...
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Article 10 mins
Why the Applying Psychology to Work hub was created
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why the Applying Psychology to Work hub was created

...health, wellbeing or communications problems impacted by COVID-19. A review of material already available on OpenLearn highlighted plenty of resources that could help address the considerable workplace changes, plus mental and emotional consequences, from the cataclysmic experience of a sequence of pandemic lockdowns. [Woman working at laptop in a mask] What can Applied...
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Article 10 mins