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Why do we feast on so much chocolate at Easter?
History & The Arts

Why do we feast on so much chocolate at Easter?

...article Graham Harvey looks at the origins of our appreciation of chocolate eggs. ...[Large chocolate easter egg] An egg-cellent choice for dessert Chocolate eggs seem to have been in the shops since just after Christmas. Perhaps next week, straight after the Easter bank holiday, Halloween “trick or treat” sweets will be available! Or maybe I’ve forgotten some other...
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Our top OpenLearn hubs to get you started
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Our top OpenLearn hubs to get you started

...articles on a key theme. Whether you're looking to build skills, spark ideas or support others, there's something here for you. When you're ready, just click into a hub to start discovering free content that fits your interests. We’ve picked out a selection of our most popular hubs to get you started: Elective Home Education – tailored to support home educators and...
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How does OpenLearn deal with older content?
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How does OpenLearn deal with older content?

...articles are marked as 'archived' whilst still kept on the site after 5 years in order to reduce potential reputational damage. OpenLearn courses and interactives are reviewed by faculty as time permits, then updated, replaced and deleted accordingly. Content has historical/archival value in its own right - simply being 'old' is not a reason to remove a piece of content....
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How do you tell the biological sex of a T-Rex?
Science, Maths & Technology

How do you tell the biological sex of a T-Rex?

...and more about dinosaurs and their kin in ever more exquisite detail. So, how do you identify the sex of a T. rex? Super awesome advanced science, and a lot of hard work, that’s how! *Apparently it can be induced in males through extreme dosing of oestrogen, but that’s another story… This article was originally published by the PLOS network under a CC-BY licence...
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5 reasons why exercising outdoors is great for people who have dementia
Health, Sports & Psychology

5 reasons why exercising outdoors is great for people who have dementia

...article Dr Jitka Vseteckova tells us of the five ways exercise can benefit people with dementia...Find out about The Open University's Health and Wellbeing courses As the Dementia UK report indicates, severity of dementia is also linked to increasing age. There are therefore serious implications for quality of life (QL) and care of those living with dementia in long term...
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A very brief history of AI
Digital & Computing

A very brief history of AI

...article looks at the first wave of AI - in particular ELIZA, one of the very first chatbots...This dialogue in the GIF below appeared in January 1966 scientific article written by the MIT Professor Joseph Weizenbaum. It appears to be a session between a patient and their sympathetic psychotherapist who went by the name ELIZA. [A chat between Eliza and a patient.] In...
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Care for the elderly
Money & Business

Care for the elderly

...article for the Guardian “Underfunded and overstretched – the crisis in care for the elderly”. Yet these problems also present fresh possibilities for modernising and improving elderly care. The convention choice between spending the remaining years of your life at home or in a care home is being dramatically expanded. New options are emerging – particularly those...
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Different cultures, different childhoods
History & The Arts

Different cultures, different childhoods

...Gottleib, Cambridge University Press. Becoming Tongan: An Ethnography of Childhood Helen Morton, University of Hawaii Press. The Famished Road, Ben Okri, Vintage. Editor's Note: This page was originally published with an photograph of The Shilluk people in their village Yom - in Tonga, Sudan, rather than the Pacific Island of the same name to which the article referred....
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