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What is RSS and how can I use RSS feeds?
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What is RSS and how can I use RSS feeds?

...become available. Transcript What kind of new content can I get? In OpenLearn, you can specify the type of content you want sent to you according to areas and subjects. This means you can receive feeds from, for example, the Body and Mind section or items that have been tagged with a particular keyword (for example, science or politics). Where is new content sent?...
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What's the difference between a tall organisation and a flat organisation? The one-minute guide
Money & Business

What's the difference between a tall organisation and a flat organisation? The one-minute guide

...become flat organisations by the removal of various levels in the hierarchy. This has been facilitated by: Information technology, which has reduced the need for many middle management jobs, which were largely concerned with processing information to facilitate control within the organisational hierarchy. The management philosophy of empowerment, where people at lower...
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Buddhist Economics
Society, Politics & Law

Buddhist Economics

...become a ‘public limited company’, and whose market leadership adds to the pressure to reform the shareholder model. How would conventional accounting change? Dr Mike Lucas assesses the changes to conventional accounting methods, and management teaching, that would be needed to establish a new business model based on Buddhist economics. Economics and accounting of the...
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What is sleep paralysis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is sleep paralysis?

...becomes disrupted. It also appears to be more common in a number of psychiatric conditions, particular post-traumatic stress disorder, and patients with panic disorder. But many individuals suffer from sleep paralysis without any apparent psychiatric or neurological condition. In a recent study, we looked at potential risk factors and found that stressful life events,...
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What are premature babies telling us about antibiotic resistance?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are premature babies telling us about antibiotic resistance?

...become resistant to carbapenems, the microbes go on the highest urgency threat list at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.” According to the CDC, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) are resistant to nearly all existing antibiotics and about half of patients in intensive care units who contract a bloodstream infection from CRE die from that...
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What is happening in Yemen?
Society, Politics & Law

What is happening in Yemen?

...become part of a regional narrative of sectarian conflict, with the Zaydi Shias seen as Iranian proxies in conflict with Saudi-backed Sunnis. However simplistic and misleading that narrative is, it has become entrenched – and that makes the conflict even harder to resolve. For now, the violence seems set to continue. All the while, the country faces a humanitarian...
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No Pause for Thought? Brexit, Bias and Political Manipulation
Health, Sports & Psychology

No Pause for Thought? Brexit, Bias and Political Manipulation

...becoming very difficult in areas that require them (such as the NHS and care work). And Britain hasn’t even left yet. Focusing on the people that will be doing the negotiating, there have been suggestions that the UK negotiating team and European negotiating team have widely different understandings of what Brexit will mean, and how the negotiations should be conducted....
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Is it true that the poorer you are, the more likely you are to eat junk food?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is it true that the poorer you are, the more likely you are to eat junk food?

...become a reflexive part of how we explain why so many Americans are overweight, particularly those with lower incomes.” Our recently published research examined this assumption by looking at who eats fast food using a large sample of random Americans. What we found surprised us: Poor people were actually less likely to eat fast food – and do so less frequently –...
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