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Thrill seeking and risk taking - what has made extreme sports into a worldwide phenomenon?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Thrill seeking and risk taking - what has made extreme sports into a worldwide phenomenon?

...human actions contain some inherent elements of risk: take the child learning to ride a bike. But the question remains why do some people seek out extreme and high-risk sports while others are content to avoid risk at all cost? Does personality play a part? Research examining personality in high risk sport frequently reports that those who participate tend to score more...
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'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race
Education & Development

'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race

...human first landed on the moon. It was also the year that I first saw a Black person on the telly. Both events were equally stellar for me. I was allowed to stay up late, even though it was a school night (I was only seven), to watch the grainy but miraculous pictures on our small black and white TV. It was a huge event for the whole family. Only years later, through...
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Voluntary Gravedigging in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Voluntary Gravedigging in the West of Ireland

...human remains are put to one side to be reinterred later. If the death is considered to be a tragic one, for example, the death of a child or as a result of someone taking their own life, the grave sides and bottom may be decorated with moss, ivy or wild flowers. After the bereaved family and mourners have left the burial, the grave diggers will backfill and make a...
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An exploration of ‘doing’ ethics in design practice
Science, Maths & Technology

An exploration of ‘doing’ ethics in design practice

...Human Ecology and Social Change (3rd edn). Thames and Hudson Ltd. Schön, D. A. (1983) The reflective practitioner: How professionals think in action. Basic Books. Star, S. L. & Griesemer, J. R. (1989) Institutional Ecology, ‘Translations’ and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39. Social Studies of Science,...
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From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models
Science, Maths & Technology

From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models

...human head. Inside the head, a symbol for the parameter theta is visible. A smaller figure stands on a ladder leaning against the head. This person is actively reaching inside to "extract" information. As a result of this extraction, a stream of disorganised numbers (like 1, 5, 7, 6, 2) is shown tumbling out of the head and falling downward. A large arrow points from the...
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How did music influence Virgina Woolf?
History & The Arts

How did music influence Virgina Woolf?

...human homogeneity and simplicity. Similar uses of music pepper Woolf’s fiction: in her first novel, The Voyage Out, her heroine plays a Beethoven piano sonata usually perceived as ‘unattainable’ for women, augmenting the references to her growing feminism. In Night and Day, references to Mozart’s operas criticise the power of patriarchal society and in Jacob’s...
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Sound for music technology: An introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

Sound for music technology: An introduction

...human voice (speech, song, male, female); (b) descriptions that refer to musical elements: major, minor, scale, note, pitch; (c) descriptions that use metaphors: high/low, humming. Activity 4 (Exploratory) Look at the descriptions you produced for the audio tracks in Activity 1. Do they seem to belong to these categories of description? Discussion Naturally I do not know...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...resources...Access to healthcare is important to all of us. Did the arrival of state medicine in the twentieth century mean that everyone had access to good medical services? If you fell sick in 1930 where could you get treatment from a GP, a hospital, a nurse? This free course, Medicine transformed: On access to healthcare, shows that in the early twentieth century,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs