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Investigating psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating psychology

...work through. One of the keys to understanding psychology is to familiarise yourself with its history and core questions. For this reason, The Open University has specifically developed an interactive resource designed to allow you to explore psychology in the way that best suits you. You can follow links to people, contexts, perspectives and methods to discover...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...work with them/support them? What might an alternative, critical framework for understanding young people's wellbeing look like? How is young people's wellbeing shaped by diversity and inequality? What are the implications of a critical approach for promoting young people's wellbeing? You will begin by looking at two newspaper stories that are fairly typical of recent...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Understanding the AFD: How to make sense of the far-right populists
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding the AFD: How to make sense of the far-right populists

...work for Goldman Sachs. She speaks fluent Mandarin and spent six years in China writing a PhD on the Chinese pension system. She is certainly not the archetypal leader of a far-right party. At the big table Now that it will sit in the federal parliament, the AfD needs learn how to deal with the challenges of real world political life inside the Bundestag. It has plenty of...
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Article 5 mins
Electrochemical Machining (ECM)
Science, Maths & Technology

Electrochemical Machining (ECM)

...on the principle of anodic metal dissolution by electrical energy. An electrolyte medium separates the tool (cathode) from the electrically conductive metal workpiece (anode), creating an electrolytic cell. A high amperage, low voltage current is passed through the cell, selectively dissolving away the material to be removed. Produces distortionless, burr-free components
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Article 5 mins
The Death of Socrates
History & The Arts

The Death of Socrates

...works of Plato, Xenophon, a comic image byAristophanes, and later works by Aristotle to tell us anything about Socrates' life. He, himself, wrote nothing, but his words and actions in the search for and defense of Truth changed the world and his example still inspires people today. This article was originally published on Ancient.eu, written by Joshua J. Mark and released...
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Article 5 mins
Redundancy - what are your next steps?
Education & Development

Redundancy - what are your next steps?

...work life balance you had longed for or even change career direction completely. Remember redundancy isn’t personal, but how you respond to it is. This article includes links to podcasts on how to prepare for, manage and come through the other side of redundancy. You can find out about support that may be available to you, advice on finance, wellbeing and career...
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Article 5 mins
Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments
Education & Development

Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments

...work. Students who use online translation tools miss out on the actual learning potential that is an important part of carefully crafted assessments. [A graphic of a globe with the word translate in many different languages over the different countries] So how can we create assessment tasks for language learners in times of digital machine translation tools? It seems that...
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Article 5 mins
Electrochemical Grinding (ECG)
Science, Maths & Technology

Electrochemical Grinding (ECG)

...work gap, is typically 0.01–0.25 mm Although the wheels are more expensive than those for conventional grinding, overall wheel costs are only 1/10 as much, as only 2–5% of the wheel removed by abrasion. Low wheel wear means less frequent wheel dressing, although the longer runs, between dressing, necessitate more precise wheel truing than for conventional grinding;...
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Article 5 mins