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How can nature help us meet the climate challenge in towns and cities?
Nature & Environment

How can nature help us meet the climate challenge in towns and cities?

...adapt to the climate change impacts we will face. [Photo of a modern city surrounded by jungle in Malaysia.] Nature in towns and cities Nature-based solutions can straddle land and sea, and cover a very large scale like a whole forest or moorland. Today, though, we will focus on nature-based solutions we might see in our towns and cities. The United Nations estimates that...
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Advanced Spanish: Language in context
Languages

Advanced Spanish: Language in context

...adapt to the contexts in which they are used...This free course, Advanced Spanish: Language in context, will develop your knowledge and understanding of the societies and cultures of Spain and Latin America and extend the practical skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. The course focuses on the many ways in which living languages - notably Spanish - adapt to...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Making connections in end-of-life conversations: essential tips for professionals
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making connections in end-of-life conversations: essential tips for professionals

...et al., 2023). An international collaborative project led by academics in the Netherlands and the UK has drawn upon multi-disciplinary research findings to consider how health and social care professionals might navigate patient preferences for communication. There are three key strategies which can help: Determine patient preference along the spectrum of wanting full,...
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Video 5 mins
The how and why of podcasting: connection, creation and conversation!
Education & Development

The how and why of podcasting: connection, creation and conversation!

...adaptable; and they lend themselves to guest contributors too, if that suits your topic. Don’t forget to shout about your new podcast on platforms your audiences already frequent, so that they know it’s there! Conversation [Woman wearing headphones and listening to a podcast on her mobile phone ] One of the main benefits of podcasts is the sense of human-to-human...
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Video 10 mins
The benefits of a longer product life
Science, Maths & Technology

The benefits of a longer product life

...adaptable, maintainable, and repairable. Such products optimise material value through preventing waste. These design strategies challenge the ways we create, use, and dispose of our everyday stuff. By extending the utility of our products, we reduce wastes, such as carbon emissions, across the whole product lifecycle...[Person repairing a smartphone] Repairing or...
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How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete

...et al., 2020). Yet, although Raducanu began playing tennis at a very young age she avoided the intensity that specialising in only one sport can bring. This was advocated by her father who asked for her tennis training to be reduced to allow other pursuits. One of the key benefits of sampling is the transfer of skills between sports (Tucker & Collins, 2012). This can...
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Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...adapted extract from the Open University course SDK100 Science and health: an evidence-based approach, which forms the entry module in our undergraduate degree in Health Sciences....Session 1: Introducing human infectious diseases: Introduction - Most people on Earth experience at least one episode of an infectious disease every year. Although the majority recover,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Life through a lens
History & The Arts

Life through a lens

...adaptable technology? Lenses are objects where art and science meet. Human curiosity about miniature worlds and worlds beyond our own has been driven by scientists and artists, often sharing the technology of lenses to see further and closer. Scientists and artists have made observations and found solutions to the problem of how to record what the lens reveals. New...
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Activity 10 mins