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The OU meets Pink Floyd
History & The Arts

The OU meets Pink Floyd

...think we always expanded. We never went back. Really the thing I’m conscious of and the Ummagumma picture at the time was sort of state of the art in terms of equipment. Everyone looked at it and went wow! Whereas now you look at it and you think yeah I’ve got that in my backroom. SEAN In terms of the use of delay, that was fairly consistent from the Binson Echorecs...
Drivers and hand-held mobile phones: extending the ban won’t solve the problem – here’s why
Health, Sports & Psychology

Drivers and hand-held mobile phones: extending the ban won’t solve the problem – here’s why

...thinks they can safely multitask while also avoiding prosecution, what’s stopping them? We need to change attitudes The tightening of the law may help to encourage some drivers to think about their phone use, but it seems unlikely it will solve the problem of mobile phone use among drivers, and eliminate the harm it causes. In a broader sense, changes to the law will...
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?

...thinking) can be challenging. So, let’s have a look what happens when our brains are ageing and how we can prevent brain decline (memory and thinking) as we grow older in a few simple steps. It is an urban myth that every older person will develop dementia and in reality, it is a spectrum from normal age-related decline through to a clinically diagnosable dementia.The...
Race and place
History & The Arts

Race and place

...think I'm a mule? ‘Where do you come from?’ ‘I'm from Glasgow.’ ‘Glasgow?’ ‘Uh huh. Glasgow.’ The white face hesitates the eyebrows raise the mouth opens then snaps shut incredulous yet too polite to say outright liar she tries another manoeuvre ‘And you parents?’ ‘Glasgow and Fife.’ ‘Oh?’ ‘Yes. Oh?’ Snookered she wonders where she should...
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The psychology of conspiracy theories
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of conspiracy theories

...thinking, attributional styles, etc.) to see whether conspiracism is underpinned by some intrinsic perceptual or reasoning deficit which leads people to misunderstand or misinterpret causal relations in the world. Overall, this quest for the psychological profile of conspiracy theorists has yielded modest results. Conspiracy theorists have been shown to be quite similar...
Why is aggressive female sexuality pathologised on-screen?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is aggressive female sexuality pathologised on-screen?

...thinks and acts beyond herself. This does not prevent her from using her sexuality as a means in which to gain intelligence. But unlike her femme fatale predecessors, she makes the mistake of falling in love. Throughout the ages, love has been opposed to reason. It has even been considered a madness. In Homeland, Carrie experiences a form of madness in her love for the...
Beaghmore Stone Circle
OpenLearn Ireland

Beaghmore Stone Circle

...think dates to about 2000bc. When these people built this tomb, this was viable farmland. And about 800 years later, say about 1200bc, the climate became a little wetter and a little cooler and the peat bog began to grow. And bit by bit the land just became unusable and people had to move away, and all of the remains of the farms and the tombs that had existed in the...
“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004
Society, Politics & Law

“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004

...think about things like militancy, trade unionism, struggle and fightback, we draw on familiar imagery of braziers at shipyard gates and pitheads. We think of charged mass meetings, packed full of angry and determined … well, men. It is perhaps hard for us to contemplate, then, that early in the first decade of the twenty-first century, a two-and-a-half-year dispute...