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Candles and campfires: creativity and the menopause transition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Candles and campfires: creativity and the menopause transition

...Menopause awareness day are: Take time for yourself to find your easeful creative pleasures. Help protect time for others to experience this too. Explore a variety of relaxing creative activity, simple writing, arts, crafts, music. Make use of nature as a companion and co-collaborator in your creative journey. Together these practices can help us come home to ourselves....
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Build a thunderstorm predictor
Science, Maths & Technology

Build a thunderstorm predictor

...simple. Just before a thunderstorm, the air will be highly charged with static electricity and this will collect on the unearthed bell. The charge bell will then attract the ringer because if the bell is say positive, the ringer (which is insulated) will be relatively negative. However, when the ringer touches the bell (making it ring) it will immediately collect the...
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5 tips on financially thriving
Money & Business

5 tips on financially thriving

...simple steps can help you regain control and start thriving financially. And when you’re ready to go further, dive into free OpenLearn courses and resources to boost your money know-how...[iconic graphic - budget] 1. Budget The first thing to do to gain financial stability is to create a budget. This should be a factual exercise that lists the cold hard facts - what is...
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Irish Gothic story competition winners
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Gothic story competition winners

...simple and chilling story. This piece has a strong sense of place, established through a nicely controlled use of local vernacular and a subtle rendering of the Irish landscape. There’s also a great sense of voice here too—short and spare sentences evoke the narrator’s heart-pumping reflections, only to give way to a heart-stopping discovery: he is accompanied by a...
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Start writing essays
History & The Arts

Start writing essays

...simple as possible but not simpler. Don’t spell out every tiny detail. Writer's block Baroness Helena Kennedy’s cure for writers block is to go to the meat of the argument, then come back to the start later. A student's approach to planning Student Beth Lewis explains how she re-reads all her course notes, this helps her to adjusts and add to her research. Different...
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Simplistic models for understanding Coronavirus: Helpful or harmful?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Simplistic models for understanding Coronavirus: Helpful or harmful?

...simple system process that has two stages: The population (Bucket 1, which is a population of 65 million) and the health system (which has limited capacity). This system is shown below. [Systems model depicting spread of coronavirus] Systems model in Footman 477 YouTube video The key problem with this model is its oversimplification of a complex dynamic process. One does...
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Sacrificial Metals
Science, Maths & Technology

Sacrificial Metals

...simple oxide Fe2O3 but is a compound that actually contains water molecules. It can be represented by Fe2O3.nH2O where n can vary according to the conditions under which the rust forms. The water molecules are incorporated into spaces within the crystal structure of iron oxide. Iron (and steel) is not weather-resistant yet it does find widespread use because of its...
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A new mission to the icy moons of Jupiter
Science, Maths & Technology

A new mission to the icy moons of Jupiter

...simple organic compounds on Enceladus. Starting with them, I’m trying to understand what more complex compounds might be created in the temperature and pressure conditions of the ocean floor of Enceladus. Specifically, I’m trying to understand if you could synthesise the kind of complex organic chemicals that life needs, such as sugars and amino acids. Grace: My focus...
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