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Magical Modernity in a Muggle World? Witchcraft, Spirituality and Everyday Enchantment
Health, Sports & Psychology

Magical Modernity in a Muggle World? Witchcraft, Spirituality and Everyday Enchantment

...social theorist Max Weber - has been to trap us in the ‘iron cage of modernity’; stripped of magic and superstition we are prevented from contemplating what might lie beyond this lacklustre façade. For the rational minded, just as for Uncle Vernon, the world experienced by Harry, Hermione and Ron is kept firmly at arm's length, presented as completely unachievable...
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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Art and the Business of Taste
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Art and the Business of Taste

...social role? A significant, but often forgotten, element of art is promotion. The ability to not only create something new and inspiring but also share it with the world. Great artists of the past such as Dali and Warhol were renowned self-promoters. This speaks to the affinities between art and marketing. Namely, the skills needed to properly and effectively market your...
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What happens to our brain as we age and how can we stop the decline?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to our brain as we age and how can we stop the decline?

...social and cognitive stimulation. [Mediterranean diet. Fruit, vegetables, grain, nuts olive oil and fish on wood] Increasing moderate exercise is very beneficial especially if we can get outdoors (more on green and blues spaces here). Aiming for healthy nutrition, especially a Mediterranean style diet, provides protection against cardiovascular disease . Good hydration...
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EPQs: help and tips
Education & Development

EPQs: help and tips

...work independently on a topic that really interests you or that you think is important. It is equivalent to an A-level qualification. These articles are designed to help you if you are enrolled on an EPQ...Find out more about The Open University’s Open degree qualification. This series of articles includes help and tips from members of AstrobiologyOU, a research group...
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Entrepreneurial Lives
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial Lives

...work demands, running businesses from home, the role of friends and family members, lifestyle, resource acquisition, and the fascinating, messy realities of entrepreneurs are themes explored in this series by Dr. MariaLaura Di Domenico of The Open University... Invisible Boundaries: When Home is the Business MariaLaura examines the challenges of running a home-based...
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Building the first Thames sewer system
Science, Maths & Technology

Building the first Thames sewer system

...Works to speed up the building process. This editorial from The Morning Chronicle of 20th July, 1859 explores why the fight against cholera had turned the river putrid, and called for faster action...[An 1855 Punch cartoon, in which Faraday hands a stinking Old Father Thames his card] Michael Faraday hands Father Thames a card during one of the 'great stinks' - a Punch...
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Picturing the family
History & The Arts

Picturing the family

...work through the course. This will help you assimilate the information and assist in the analysis of your own photographs. Don't assume that once you have studied a photograph, you will have garnered all the information there is to be found. I am constantly surprised at how much I fail to see when I look at photographs. I have given talks using the same images to...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Supporting babies and toddlers
Education & Development

Supporting babies and toddlers

...social and emotional development and wellbeing (Bowlby, 1952). The fact that Bowlby’s work only looked at the mother/baby relationship has been criticised in more recent times as families have become more diverse, and this has highlighted that other caregivers, such as fathers, foster carers, adoptive parents and same-sex parents have an equally critical role to play in...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs