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52 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

52 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...history of Ireland taken from our OU/BBC co-production Ireland with Simon Reeve, and a free course on Gaelic in Modern Scotland as well as articl collections on Red Cydeside. Transcripts STUDENTS Open University students who use OpenLearn are 5-10% more likely to pass and progress to their next module, than those who do not. Interested in our full course catalogue now? We...
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Exploring immortality
History & The Arts

Exploring immortality

...history. One specific incident she has explored was the 1938 kuṭīpraveśika rejuvenation treatment of Pandit Mohan Malaviya (1861–1946), nationalist leader and chancellor of Benares Hindu University by a sadhu reputed to be over 200 years old at the time (Swami Tapasviji aka Tapsi Baba (c. 1770?–1955). [Pandit Malaviya] Photographs of Pandit Malaviya before and...
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Astrobiology from the ground up
Science, Maths & Technology

Astrobiology from the ground up

...history of anthropology as a discipline will be of paramount importance, whereas for a younger scientific discipline, such as astrobiology, that may not be an obvious problem; as a new science, a new discipline, the historical connection of coloniality and relationships between colonised and colonisers is not in its framing. That can be a place where tensions arise. A...
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Impossible Peace 2: On a wing and a prayer
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: On a wing and a prayer

...history in a frame. In 2005, the former Methodist President Harold Good was a church witness to IRA decommissioning. They gave him this boiler suit to wear in the fields of rural Ireland, and he gave them a prayer - the timeless words of St Francis of Assisi. Image - Marie Therese Hurson [Written note from Harold Good. See details below for full transcript.]Harold Good -...
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What can Earth tell us about Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can Earth tell us about Mars?

...history they might not have been extremely saline; it’s possible conditions in Mars’s waters might have been quite clement. One of the great things about working in AstrobiologyOU is that I work with colleagues whose research skills are in different areas to mine, and we can add them together. Some of my colleagues run sophisticated computer models that can take what...
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Discovering development management
Money & Business

Discovering development management

...histories (within broader histories involving different mixes of interested parties). These differences include: interests values agendas cultures. Another difference relates to power. I’ve set this apart from the other factors; this is partly to signal the significance of power in any process of development management (though that is not to devalue the other factors),...
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Two Yorkish episodes
History & The Arts

Two Yorkish episodes

...family, as we poor Americans imagine such things out of English fiction. We entered the archiepiscopal grounds through a sympathetic Gothic screen, as I will call the overture to the Gothic edifice in my defect of architectural terminology, though perhaps gateway would be simpler; and found ourselves in the garden, and in the company of those people we had towed down...
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Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing

...family members who recognise that something is wrong. They might see that their relative is not functioning or coping with the ordinary demands of everyday life. This can present itself in a variety of ways, for example poor appetite, trouble sleeping, or loss of interest in usual hobbies. However, the diagnosis of a mental health problem is dependent on the...
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