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Five surprising facts about sex and the pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Five surprising facts about sex and the pandemic

...OU is working with Paired to enable couples to thrive. Daily questions and quizzes prompt conversations about everything from sexual fantasies to engaging with sex and intimacy issues in relationships. Check out the Paired app. People tend to compare their sex lives against fictional others based on hearsay, guesswork and popular culture misinformation. Recognizing how...
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The benefits of outdoor green and blue spaces
Health, Sports & Psychology

The benefits of outdoor green and blue spaces

...OU and The Parks Trust https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/social-care-social-work/keep-me-walking-people-living-dementia-and-outdoor-environments Leach J (2018) Green care: contact with nature can improve mental health
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A question of ethics: right or wrong?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A question of ethics: right or wrong?

...become familiar with codes of conduct for a selected activity and to consider how they may be used. Activity 2 Ethical conduct within your activity Timing: Allow about 30 minutes This activity is designed to provide you with the opportunity to research the code of conduct for an activity of your choice and compare it with examples from sports coach UK and REPs. Follow the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Exploring family health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring family health

...becomes linked with family problems, then eating can itself become a problem. Also, children may begin to use eating (or not eating) certain foods as a way of testing the power of their parents. Not eating is often the only thing that children can do to exert control over their lives, and if this pattern of using food to control one’s life is continued into adolescence...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Writing what you know
History & The Arts

Writing what you know

...become my habit, that’s my way of working. I can’t settle down to work until I’ve first of all cleared every other possible distraction out of the way, so ironing, washing up, taking the dog for a walk, shopping, all these things are higher priorities to me than writing because I can’t possibly write if they’re nagging at me. I think the nest circling is a...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...students were working, as you see. And my brother-- this is a piece of leverage now. Before that, this-- that wasn’t like that. And my brother and Nishu-- and then he was working on the road the previous day on the 5th. But on the 6th, he was not. Then he could survive. On the 6th, over 323, I heard, students from his school, first-year students, were working. Nobody...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Bill Hare - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill Hare - Stories of Change

...become fair within the range of scientific literature. RH: And what’s your assessment so far? BH: Well what we see is that most of the major emitters, developed and developing, are very far away from doing their fair share, whether you’re the United States or China, whether you’re the European Union or India, more can be done by all of those big emitters to close...
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Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...become one of the world’s best known and respected cameramen. He specialises in natural history, expeditions and science documentaries in some of the wildest and most remote places on our planet, particularly the polar zones working for the BBC, Discovery, National Geographic and many others, filming for series like The Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Human Planet, Frozen...
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