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Smarty pants: wearable electronics will recharge your life
Science, Maths & Technology

Smarty pants: wearable electronics will recharge your life

...student. It’s hard to ignore that kind of phone call. Running with it The same technology can power smart sports clothing, so that your jogging suit or cycling shorts could carry a global positioning system (GPS) unit and a fitness monitor powered by your movements as you pedal or run. You could monitor and analyse your workout before you hit the shower. Australian...
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Reporting in the fog of an attack
History & The Arts

Reporting in the fog of an attack

...student journalists at Cardiff University each year: “If you’re first and wrong, you’re not first.” Unsourced chatter Channel 4 News’s apology said their correspondent quoted a source he trusted naming the attacker. No further information on who the source was or where the information came from was provided. Like many news addicts, I was watching Twitter as the...
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Another spoonful? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part Two
Society, Politics & Law

Another spoonful? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part Two

...1985) and Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom (1996). Current students should look at DTS206's block on food, which addresses the question of affluent diets and its effects on the environment. Steve Pile is Professor of Human Geography. He is currently writing about electricity for the new Environment and Society module, D213, which you will be able to study from 2018 onwards....
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The science of nutrition and healthy eating Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of nutrition and healthy eating

...students, currently studying with The Open University – http://www.open.ac.uk/ choose/ ou/ open-content 2. Enjoyed this?Find out more about this topic or browse all our free course materials on OpenLearn – http://www.open.edu/ openlearn/ 3. Outside the UK?We have students in over a hundred countries studying online qualifications – http://www.openuniversity.edu/ –...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...become general among the whole population. For example, in English the letter r is still written after vowels, but no longer pronounced by most speakers in central and southern England in words such as for, farm, car, cart, potter, and so on. This change is gradually spreading through the dialects of English, as younger speakers in the north adopt pronunciations without...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction
Education & Development

Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction

...OU) and undertaken in partnership with Public Health England and The Folklore Society. Our thanks to all the volunteer researchers and participants in the Reproductive Bodylore project....Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction: Introduction - Do you want to find out what people think about an issue, or what their experiences are? Do you need to carry out...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
DIY: Measuring latitude and longitude
Society, Politics & Law

DIY: Measuring latitude and longitude

...becomes successively one hour earlier at each 15º longitude west of the Prime Meridian, and one hour later at each 15º longitude east. Time is the same throughout each zone. In practice, many of the zones have been subdivided or their shape altered for convenience. The mean solar time at Greenwich is now called Universal Time (formerly called Greenwich Mean Time or...
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Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?
OpenLearn Ireland

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

...become friends with it again can be life changing in so many ways . How is our relationship with food formed?Eating behaviour shown on social media platforms appears divided, with many influencers sharing their exercise and restrictive eating behaviours and others showing how they indulge in food. A current trend that populates social media is ‘What I eat in a day’....
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