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Personality: A user guide
Health, Sports & Psychology

Personality: A user guide

...system, and partly from learning. Researchers sometimes distinguish between temperament, which refers exclusively to characteristics that are inborn or directly caused by biological factors, and personality, which also includes social and cultural learning. Nervousness might be a factor of temperament, but religious piety is an aspect of personality (overlaid, perhaps, on...
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Article 10 mins
Water Treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Water Treatment

...think about where your water comes from? In the UK each of us uses an average of about 150 litres of water per day! The seven video tracks in this album consider issues of demand and quality in water supply as well as treatment processes. They give information on methods of minimising waste, emergency water treatment and effluent control. This material forms part of T308...
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Audio 44 mins
Pick a side and make a difference: Why you should vote this Thursday
Society, Politics & Law

Pick a side and make a difference: Why you should vote this Thursday

...think about a more compassionate politics, and that we should prioritise the eradication of poverty, I’ll leave it to you to decide which party is most likely to achieve those things. We know that, generally speaking, politics and politicians are not held in high esteem. Despite this, you might think that, of course, most people vote. Very few people admit to not...
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About Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

About Stories of Change

...thinking of leading players in climate change and energy debates at a critical moment in the global conversation. ...[Stories of Change Logo] The Stories of Change project aims to help to revive stalled public and political conversations about energy by looking in a fresh way at its past, present and future. These interviews have been recorded by the BBC’s Environment...
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Article 5 mins
A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
Languages

A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis

...think of language as existing without writing, but in the long history of humankind’s ability to use language it is only relatively recently that writing emerged. The course also looks as the vital relationship between technology and writing, and how the development of new technologies alter the way we communicate. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Has Jeremy Corbyn saved Labour simply by standing for election?
Society, Politics & Law

Has Jeremy Corbyn saved Labour simply by standing for election?

...thinks Corbyn's campaign has given a boost to everyone's prospects...Tony Blair doesn’t think much of the most likely next leader of the Labour Party. “Your heart is with Jeremy Corbyn? Then get a transplant,” was but the first of various interventions he made during the party’s protracted leadership campaign – interventions that weren’t just...
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Energy efficiency: hospitals
Nature & Environment

Energy efficiency: hospitals

...Hospital transport strategies Strategies aimed at limiting private car use at a UK hospital. Making hospital transport eco-friendly An Austrian hospital has revolutionised its goods and services transport systems as part of a wider environmental strategy. A green hospital A British hospital incorporates a range of forward-thinking ideas to cut its energy use by 40%....
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Audio 28 mins
Brexit and health care professionals
Health, Sports & Psychology

Brexit and health care professionals

...think about how Brexit will change health care. In the following article I suggest four categories which might be used to understand the different impacts upon health care professionals. This isn’t a comprehensive list, but it is an example of how to start thinking and planning for how practice and management will need to adjust. Importantly, and as you will see,...
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