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A polyglot life
Languages

A polyglot life

...out there, but I found it quite exciting. Finally, I had the name of the condition: Polyglot. A year or so later another student, on my degree also shared my strong passion for languages, and we hit it off immediately. At last, I had real people I could talk to about the subject I loved most: learning multiple languages. For my studies and with jobs following that time, I...
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Birth of the Welfare State
History & The Arts

Birth of the Welfare State

...out. The list of legislation brought forward by Atlee's government shows that along with opportunities for access to education came a house building programme, free health services and, above all, a comprehensive programme of benefits to deal with unemployment, old age and much more besides. It was a 'brave new world' indeed. Main legislative measures of the post-war...
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Workplace Survivor Syndrome
Health, Sports & Psychology

Workplace Survivor Syndrome

...out or seek an escape after work hours, e.g., alcohol. Panic after losing a manager If an employee has lost their line-manager, the confusion that occurs can lead to them losing trust in the company and the person who will take over that role. This can result in feeling a need for more direction and security. They will seek an authority figure to latch onto or find false...
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The Eurozone: Magnet or Black Hole?
Money & Business

The Eurozone: Magnet or Black Hole?

...out of recession, since Eurozone rules require members to keep their fiscal deficits below 3% of GDP. It can’t make the fiscal transfers that would offset a polarising imbalance in national income flows: Germany, producing much more than it consumes, gets richer, while competing with Germany’s surplus production leaves other member countries worse-off. It doesn’t...
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A brief history of sex education
Health, Sports & Psychology

A brief history of sex education

...out more about The Open University's Health and Wellbeing courses and qualifications. There is still a great deal we don’t know about the history of sex education. The research that has been done is largely about school sex education during the 20th century. School sex education is important, yet most of us learn little of what we know about sex from our schooling. We...
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The Somme: The German perspective
History & The Arts

The Somme: The German perspective

...out more about The Open University's History courses and qualifications [Character of German General] Shortly after daybreak on 1 July 1916, around 100,000 troops of Sir Henry Rawlinson’s 5th Army left their trenches and advanced on the German trenches across no-man’s-land. Many, if not most, expected the 5-day artillery bombardment to have destroyed all but the...
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Technology in sport since 1969
Health, Sports & Psychology

Technology in sport since 1969

...out some of the ‘Bad’ and, unfortunately, contributed to some of the ‘Ugly’. [Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin walks on the surface of the moon] It’s hard to know what to cover in such a short space where so much has been invented and integrated into the sports scene, but in true Western style, let’s take aim and shoot for the moon. 50 years ago on July 20th,...
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What do we need to know about our memory?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we need to know about our memory?

...out age-related decline to all our organs and that includes our brain. Our brain is in a sense a central computer where everything that is happening in our bodies and minds gets processed (read more in our article The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'). We do not know exactly how our organs, including the brain, will be affected by ageing and which might be affected...
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