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Stress and anxiety in the digital age: the dark side of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stress and anxiety in the digital age: the dark side of technology

...Think about how you feel when you realise you have forgotten your phone or left it behind somewhere. It can be uncomfortable, can’t it? In fact, recent research has shown that some people experience significant stress and anxiety when they are separated from their phones and can even exhibit withdrawal-like symptoms, comparable to those usually seen when someone has an...
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Article 10 mins
Five ways you can tell if your child is ‘normal’
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways you can tell if your child is ‘normal’

...think about the psychological aspects of child development – and how we can have rather limited views on what constitutes ‘normal’ or healthy emotional and social development. For instance, in terms of gender role expectations, does it really matter if a girl dresses and acts in a way that is masculine? and maybe it can be okay that your child doesn’t want to go...
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Impossible Peace 2: The murders at Massereene
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The murders at Massereene

...think about - both what to do and what not to do. What happened at the weekend and last night needs a thought-through response. That is what is happening. In the worlds of politics and policing they know what the dissidents want. They are not going to give it to them. [Photograph and handwritten statement of Dawn Purvis. See details below for text transcript.]Dawn Purvis...
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Should we read John Locke today?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...thinking about equality and human rights. And Locke argued that these natural rights were shared equally. But some were more equal than others. For Locke, it was men and in particular men who owned private property who he envisioned sharing in these rights. Women were seen as living in the private sphere of family life and the home and were not assumed to require the same...
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Exploring equality and equity in education
Education & Development

Exploring equality and equity in education

...thinks of ‘equality’ in education What do you see as the dimensions of equality which you consider important? Now think about an educational context with which you are familiar. This might be the institution in which you practise or an institution you attended, or one which a member of your family attends. What does achieving equity for learners need to look like in...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...think I see plainly the cropping out of the original rock on which his own finer stratum was laid. The first play was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with Cromwell, where,--instead of the metre of Shakespeare, whose secret is, that the thought...
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Article 15 mins
Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...thinking: might animal noses be quicker, or more accurate, and/or cheaper – and so able to be used more widely – than some high-tech cancer-screening techniques? If dogs really could sniff out cancer, what other diseases might they smell? And might the noses of other animals be useful too? Over the past decade, there have been projects investigating the use of bees to...
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Article 5 mins
Egyptian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Egyptian mathematics

...thinking it through will inform us not only about Egyptian mathematics, but also about what studying history can involve. The question arose because it seemed to suggest itself from the source material, or from our efforts to understand it. We use fractions, the Egyptians also seemed to do so, yet only in a seemingly highly restricted way which drove them into subtle and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs