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What's creative about creative writing?
History & The Arts

What's creative about creative writing?

...work? Listen to translators, authors and creative writing teachers as they explore these and other questions of creativity...This collection of interviews with writers, literary agents, educators and translators looks at what creativity means in the context of ‘creative writing’. We hear leading figures from the world of literature consider questions such as: Can...
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Dating apps: is swiping right a thing of the past?
History & The Arts

Dating apps: is swiping right a thing of the past?

...want more time off screen and more human connection? This Valentine’s Day the key to someone’s heart may be at a fun live event on your doorstep instead of through a screen… but it did work for me, three years married from a Scottish tinder match back in the hay day of dating apps in 2018. See more of our Valentine's content in our OpenLearn Valentine's collection....
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The world's busiest railway - Mumbai, India and rail
Science, Maths & Technology

The world's busiest railway - Mumbai, India and rail

...work. They are the commuters cramming themselves onto Mumbai’s crowded suburban trains, making more than 2.5 billion journeys per year. The trains are busy, hot and the city’s transport network is tested to its very limits daily. The equivalent traffic of all 270 stations of the London tube network, rushes through one single station - Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus -...
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What is it like to research death and loss?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is it like to research death and loss?

...work that they do, differences they’ve learned about, and what it is like when a death researcher experiences death in their personal life. The recording mentions several projects, online items, and publications – links to these can be found in the further resources below. Transcript. Further resources Centre for Open Thanatology on Bluesky:
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Nanotechnology: Good things come in small packages
Science, Maths & Technology

Nanotechnology: Good things come in small packages

...work? The question lies on how these nanoparticles can provide the advantages described above? The answer is simple. These nano-carriers either interact with the cell surface because of their charge and surface properties that make them accumulate into cancer cells that are characterized by leaky blood vessels and not into healthy cells or by “receptor-mediated”...
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Get in touch
Education & Development

Get in touch

...work with home-educating families. While we can’t guarantee that there is content on every topic area, we will continue to add new articles and courses to this hub. There are a number of ways you can use this hub, depending on if you are a home-educator, a home-educated young person, a practitioner, or a researcher. Using the topic areas, you can create your own...
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Diverse Perspectives on Mental Health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Diverse Perspectives on Mental Health

...of the course team explains why identity and relationships are important when trying to work through mental health issues. Listening to service users Jonathan Leach of the course team explains the practical importance of listening to service users' perspectives. Everyday experiences Jonathan Leach of the course team explains the rationale for including Bronwyn's Story....
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Audio 1 hr 55 mins
Philosophy and the Human Situation
History & The Arts

Philosophy and the Human Situation

...work, The Social Contract Pro- and Anti-Regan Debate Rosalind Hursthouse and Derek Matravers cover, in the form of a debate, the Regan argument developed by Tom Regan, animal rights professor. Ethics, Animals, and the Environment Oxford University Philosophy Professor Roger Crisp discusses specific moral questions concerning ethics, animals and the environment Wonder...
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