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Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life
History & The Arts

Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life

...cognition leads them up to this truth. And the truth is death.’ ‘Art, poetry?’ For a long time, under the influence of the success of human praise, I tried to persuade myself that that was a thing which could be done, even though death should come and destroy everything, my deeds, as well as my memory of them; but soon I came to see that that, too, was a deception....
Exploring immortality
History & The Arts

Exploring immortality

...cognitively impaired in some way. And of course questions about what makes our life meaningful also arise in our ordinary mortal lives; just in our ordinary decisions about what kind of life to lead. Even if you think immortality isn’t a real possibility, it can still be useful to think about the possibility when we’re thinking about these more practical questions....
Learning Design resources to support embedding sustainability competencies and learning outcomes in course materials
Education & Development

Learning Design resources to support embedding sustainability competencies and learning outcomes in course materials

...cognitive, socio-emotional and behavioural learning domains that can be used in the development of learning objectives. You can access the Ways of Thinking, Ways of Practicing and Ways of Being graphics via the OU Learning Design Blog. The ‘Supporting climate action through digital education’ Open learn course suggests how you might use these graphics and provides...
Introduction to adolescent mental health Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to adolescent mental health

...cognition and mental health’, Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, vol 70, pp. 182–188. Wilson, Valerie (2011), ‘Non-diabetic hypoglycaemia: causes and pathophysiology’, Nursing Standard, 25(46), p. 35. Gale Academic OneFile, link.gale.com/ apps/ doc/ A263879014/ AONE?u=tou&sid=AONE&xid=b6d942ce (Accessed 21 December 2021) World Health Organization (2020a) WHO...
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...neuroscience? Educational neuroscience, 1, p.2377616115618036. Charmaz, K. (2014) Constructing Grounded Theory. 2nd edn. London: SAGE Publications. Creswell, J. (2003) Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods Approaches, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Connolly, P., Biggart, A., Miller, S., O'Hare, L. and Thurston, A., (2017). Using randomised...
Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...cognitive and life long learning skills not only communication skills and associated strategies but also employability skills and cultural awareness. It also develops their literacy in their own mother tongue, to motivate students to learn languages that’s the challenge. For that MFL teachers need to be enthusiastic about learning, passionate about teaching languages...
Studying mammals: The opportunists
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The opportunists

...cognitive maps of their environments. While a cognitive map should not be thought of in literal terms like a street map of London, experimental evidence certainly seems to suggest that the relative locations of relevant objects in the 'real' world are somehow stored in the rats' brains. In one of his experiments, Tolman used the maze shown in Figure 5. Three paths (A, B...
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Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?

...Neurosciences who has studied the disease for three decades. “It will never go away.” Four-year-old Bhuvan sits quietly in his mother’s lap at the clinic. Nearly all of the right side of his neck is an open wound, where a street dog grabbed hold of him and dragged him for four feet before his great-aunt Veena came out of the house screaming. “That’s when the dog...