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The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...worked on Saturdays. Trips to music festivals and birthday parties always involved booze, invariably in violently flavoured and oddly coloured forms. Standouts include Apple Sourz, a neon-green fruit liqueur with an ABV of 15%, and Hooch, a classic alcopop that looked and tasted like lemonade but was stronger than many beers. Yet it wasn’t until university that booze...
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Article 10 mins
Microbes – friend or foe?
Nature & Environment

Microbes – friend or foe?

...works (shown schematically in Figure 5), it is first filtered to remove large objects (e.g. condoms, tampons and cigarette ends) which have got into the system. These usually go to a landfill site or incinerator. The remaining material is then allowed to ‘settle’so that much of the solid material drops to the bottom of a tank. This solid material is then removed and...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...these different levels of analysing things. The following sections will focus on the work of psychologists who developed theories to try and understand why some people behave in deviant ways, and even commit crimes, as compared to those who do not. Sections 2.1 to 2.3 look at early research that focused specifically on the individual’s personality, without exploring other factors that may influence a person to behave in......
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing

...work productively and fruitfully and is able to make a contribution to her or his community. It is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. While this definition has been praised, there has also been some criticism of the overly positive nature of the definition. For example, some academics suggest that...
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English: skills for learning Badge icon
Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...work through the course at your own pace, so if you have more time one week there is no problem with pushing on to complete another week's study. You can also take as long as you want to complete it. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our optional...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Different types of business
Money & Business

Different types of business

...working for them are motivated, well qualified and work well together. In other ways, however, small businesses operate very differently from large businesses. Small businesses are often owned and managed by the same person. This ‘owner-manager’ may be the founder of the business, or sometimes a relative, perhaps a son or daughter of the founder. Owner-managers are...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...working-class readers were particular fans of Dickens. East-Ender George Acorn was punished by his parents for wasting 3½d on a second-hand copy of David Copperfield, but later changed their minds by reading the saddest passages aloud to them (UK RED: 2368). Arthur Harding, a Victorian professional criminal, enjoyed A Tale of Two Cities and Dombey and Son when he read...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...working lives. This free course, Information technology: A new era?, looks at whether it is possible to predict the future of this industry by comparing it to the development of the automobile industry in the USA...Do the advances in information technology equate to a new industrial revolution? The advances made by IBM, Dell and many other manufacturers have resulted in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs