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Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour
Digital & Computing

Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour

...world we live in that it was both instrumental in the planning of, and the aftermath of, the Paris Attacks. First, Robyn Torok explains how ISIS used social media to plan the attacks; then Arnaud Mercier tells how the channels came to the fore after the horror unfolded. [The photographer says this is a "call to solidarity in prayer and to stand tall together. I aggregated...
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Article 10 mins
Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?
OpenLearn Ireland

Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?

...world where body acceptance and inner peace are the priority is attractive. Now might be a good time to challenge yourself in a new way, by ditching the diet books and learning more about intuitive eating. Intuitive eating: how to get started 1.Plan to prioritise your own health. 2.Resist from starting another diet. 3.Read material on Intuitive eating. 4.Read the article...
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Article 5 mins
Leaving no stone unturned in the pursuit of female athletic performance
Health, Sports & Psychology

Leaving no stone unturned in the pursuit of female athletic performance

...world record by running 26.2 miles in 2 hrs 14 min 4 sec...[Basketball player] Incredible performances like this continue to remind us that women can perform far beyond any limits that were originally bestowed upon them by that 1928 committee. As women continue to pursue peak performance, whether that be in sport and exercise or beyond, we have to think differently about...
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Article 15 mins
Children and young people’s participation
Education & Development

Children and young people’s participation

...Worlds: Developing Frameworks For Integrated Practice, Bristol, Policy Press/Milton Keynes, The Open University. Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, Uganda Child Rights NGO Network, and UNICEF – Uganda Office (2008) The National Child Participation Guide for Uganda: Creating an Environment for Children to be Heard, June. Available from:
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...world of mental health. These preferences often stem from the desire to express, or have recognised, a more nuanced, more social and less medicalised view of what mental ill-health involves, and how an individual experiences them. They also imply a particular role for the practitioner. Someone who may be medically oriented might use the term ‘patient’, while someone...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...world as it is interpreted by their creators. The graphs and tables used to sell financial products are models of the expected performance of those products, and at the national level, we are told that Government has a model of ‘the economy’ on which it bases decisions about tax rates, interest rates and other aspects of fiscal policy. At a more fundamental level, all...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Leo Tolstoy on King Lear
History & The Arts

Leo Tolstoy on King Lear

...world," says Shelley. "I am not minded to say much of Shakespeare's Arthur," says Swinburne. "There are one or two figures in the world of his work of which there are no words that would be fit or good to say. Another of these is Cordelia. The place they have in our lives and thoughts is not one for talk. The niche set apart for them to inhabit in our secret hearts is not...
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Article 15 mins
Sniffing out disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Sniffing out disease

...world where the only medical diagnostic test needed was a small box with flashing lights, like the tricorder used in the TV series Star Trek. You would just wave it in the air near the patient and instantly find out what was wrong with them. This is science fiction, but perhaps we may be getting one small step towards that. We all produce chemicals as by-products of our...
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Article 5 mins