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Year of the Rabbit: Chinese New Year
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Year of the Rabbit: Chinese New Year

...become popular on Chinese social media recently: ‘兔’飞猛进 tú fēi měng jìn Lit. rabbit fly fiece advance This pun is created by two words sharing similar pronunciation as both the first character 兔 (4th tone, rabbit) above and the first character 突 tū (1st tone, sudden, out of nowhere) as in the following well-known four-character proverb which is used to...
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5 benefits of giving up alcohol
Health, Sports & Psychology

5 benefits of giving up alcohol

...become a bit of a crutch and potentially inhibit you from being your natural-born self. To understand the reasons people drink alcohol, head over to 'The science behind why we drink alcohol'. To find out more about #GoSober for October, head over to Macmillan Cancer Support's website and see what you can do to support this event - https://www.gosober.org.uk References...
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The science of making musical instruments
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of making musical instruments

...become alternately more dense and less dense. The variation in pressure in the medium is sensed by a receiver such as the human ear or recording device and is called a sound wave. [sound source] [longitudinal sound waves] Flow of longitudinal sound waves Sound travels in the same way whether it is music or noise. The difference between music and noise is that musical...
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Personal branding for career success

...students, currently studying with The Open University – http://www.open.ac.uk/ choose/ ou/ open-content 2. Enjoyed this? Find out more about this topic or browse all our free course materials on OpenLearn – http://www.open.edu/ openlearn/ 3. Outside the UK? We have students in over a hundred countries studying online qualifications – http://www.openuniversity.edu/...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...become more responsive and flexible enough to react quickly to environmental changes. Moreover, in high-wage economies, they have had to become creative enough to add value through continual innovation. For this, organisations, more than ever before, are relying on the creativity and innovation of the people they work with, whether employees, contractors, or volunteers....
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Fire ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Fire ecology

...becoming increasingly important issues for ecosystem management...Fire ecology: 1.1 The effects of fire on an ecosystem - Given the 2020 wildfires on Australia and the obvious devastation they have caused, the perception of wild fires is often that they are destructive disturbances. However, wildfires are an important part of healthy ecosystems and play a key role in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...become able to receive and process streams of sensory information by being temporarily attached or ‘housed’ in a material body. Indeed, according to scholastic theological tradition, since angels do not have bodies they must borrow unused ones in order to deliver messages to earth. It is important to realise just how puzzling the nature of such a mind would be if...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them
Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them

...become such a focus of a person’s life that the fear itself impacts nearly all aspects of their quality of life. In the next section you will find out more about the experience of panic disorder...Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them: 1.3 Experience of panic disorder - So far you have learned about how mental health professionals define panic attacks...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs