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Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...Think broadly about the music you experience in everyday life and make a list of up to ten such ‘musical’ sounds. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A890 MA Music part 1...Introducing music research: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand something of the diversity, purposes and...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
The body in antiquity
History & The Arts

The body in antiquity

...Think about how your environment has determined how you go about certain things, and even whether you go about them at all. Discussion Most of you will have woken up in a bed. While all humans sleep, their beds can look very different depending on their culture and climate. Your bed is a cultural construct. If you’re like me you were woken by an alarm clock. In the long...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...think and feel in several different ways. During this course you will complete activities that not only get you reading but allow you to experience for yourself some of the effects that reading can have on you as an individual. As well as changing you in some of the ways that you will explore here, research suggests that people who read books actually live longer....
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Does Brexit mean another Scottish Independence vote?
Society, Politics & Law

Does Brexit mean another Scottish Independence vote?

...thinks the SNP will bide its time...[Nicola Sturgeon signing the original Scottish Independence Referendum Bill] Nicola Sturgeon signing the first referendum into Scottish law Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s announcement of a draft bill to make a second independence referendum viable unsurprisingly delighted the audience at the SNP conference in Glasgow. But...
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Methods in Motion: Becoming relativist
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Becoming relativist

...thinking and knowing. In one notebook entry the late Nietzsche writes rather cryptically: The logical negation of the world and the annihilation [of its value] results from our need to oppose Being to Non-being [the Nothing], and that the concept of ‘Becoming’ is denied. (Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Notebooks, 1887–88) It requires a lot of analysis and...
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Ads of our time – are teens susceptible to food ads in digital media?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ads of our time – are teens susceptible to food ads in digital media?

...thinking skills means that they can resist food advertising. First, children find ads in digital media much harder to distinguish from other web page content. Second, in social media, ads are designed to be particularly engaging, emotionally appealing, and entertaining. They build on young people’s passions – their loves for humour, music, movies, sports, games,...
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Article 5 mins
How does nature tell the time?
Nature & Environment

How does nature tell the time?

...think what it would have done to the human population! But a living tree can only go back so far. To go back further we can look at wood which has been used as a building material. Almost every old building has wood in it, which retains the record of the tree’s life - those rings don’t disappear! [Tree rings] By piecing together thousands of tree ring samples from...
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Article 10 mins
Can computers be therapists?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can computers be therapists?

...think that one of the biggest challenges for researchers such as myself, is providing information which can steer people towards effective programs, in an environment dominated by a large number of untested interventions or websites, which can look very appealing and are widely available. That’s why I think it is encouraging to see resources such as ‘Beacon’ being...
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Article 10 mins