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Tokyo 2020 in 2021: Do the best things come to those who wait?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Tokyo 2020 in 2021: Do the best things come to those who wait?

...World War. The postponed 2021 games will likely be a different experience to previous games with, for example, no spectators at most events (BBC, 2021) and a scaled down opening ceremony (Telegraph Sport, 2021). So, what effect does the postponement have on the athletes and their preparation? This article will explore some of the psychological and physiological impacts of...
Five ways in which COVID-19 has impacted on progress in global health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways in which COVID-19 has impacted on progress in global health

...world have decided to close or work in a limited way during the pandemic. Finally, reports have suggested that some women might also be reluctant to deliver in hospital due to the fear of contracting COVID-19. While data needs to be collected to understand the scale of COVID-19’s impact, early evidence from India suggests that in some districts institutional deliveries...
Astrobiology from the ground up
Science, Maths & Technology

Astrobiology from the ground up

...world, different worldviews that inform Indigenous peoples’ engagement with these environments. The second area is my work in biodiversity; considering what biodiversity might look like in the Anthropocene. Some of my research in the long-term development of biodiversity uses archival material that shows what the biological inventory of a place looked like hundreds of...
Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author
History & The Arts

Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author

...World’. This gives depth to the historical inequalities that resonate to the power dynamics and legacies of contemporary inequalities experienced in Western society. Equiano’s narrative also shines a lens on the power of African slaves whose knowledge, experience, intellect, and skills, which were significant to the successful economic wealth of Britain and her...
FGM: Mental Health impact and CBT
Health, Sports & Psychology

FGM: Mental Health impact and CBT

...World Health Organization (2025) recommends CBT as part of a holistic, trauma‑informed plan to support FGM survivors with trauma, post‑traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety. CBT helps survivors understand how their thoughts, emotions and physical reactions are connected to the trauma of their FGM and its ongoing consequences. It focuses on the distress a...
CARE-KNOW-DO: From Caring About Our Planet to Shaping Its Future
Education & Development

CARE-KNOW-DO: From Caring About Our Planet to Shaping Its Future

...world. The Open University's OpenLearn widened that offer to anyone who wants to learn, and its partnership with the BBC on Blue Planet brought the ocean into millions of homes. In 2015 the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals, and in the same year CARE-KNOW-DO was launched at The Open University. The next step is participation: helping people use what...
Biofuels
Science, Maths & Technology

Biofuels

...world - transportation fuel. So that's just in one country. So when we look at how much is possible worldwide, it certainly seems to us like quite a large amount. Around the world there is a billion acres that's been abandoned to agriculture and this is all land that at one time did grow crops. I And I guess that there is always an argument that some of the land that is...
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10 years of The Bottom Line
Money & Business

10 years of The Bottom Line

...world of business...[Filiming The Bottom Line] We look back over the past decade with The Bottom Line as the show celebrates its 10 year anniversary and considers how, or if, things have changed in the world of business. Best bits Some of our highlights from the past ten years have been our special recordings with Evan Davis exclusively for OpenLearn. Still some our most...