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Investigating psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating psychology

...resource. You can follow links to people, contexts, perspectives and methods to discover information, images and links from across psychology. The resource also links each of these people, contexts, perspectives and methods so you can see how each element is connected in the history of psychology...One of the keys to understanding psychology is to know about its history...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
How do we learn language?
Education & Development

How do we learn language?

...human nature...Find out more about The Open University's Education and Early Years courses and qualifications. Human nature [A group of children sitting on the floor looking up]Humans are not the strongest, fastest, or fiercest of creatures. And yet, put a group of us together and we have been able to inhabit every continent; develop science, law, art and medicine. The...
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Signposts for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Signposts for Work

...resources and short courses to help develop skills and knowledge towards preparing for new work or enhancing a current career journey...The workplace and our society face many current challenging situations. You may have experienced considerable changes to your own working life, whether as an employer or employee, self-employed or business owner, or currently without paid...
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Article 10 mins
Soil as the book of nature
Nature & Environment

Soil as the book of nature

...resources, alongside air and water. Why care for soils? Knowledge of the soil's physical, chemical and biological make-up is important for various disciplines. For example, nutrient levels are important for crop production, soil shear strength is crucial for engineering construction, and its structure could also be a deciding factor for football pitches! It also has more...
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Reducing digital carbon footprint through responsible procurement
Nature & Environment

Reducing digital carbon footprint through responsible procurement

...resources A great deal of natural resources are required in the manufacture of electronic technology products, including water, gold, silver, copper, cobalt, lithium and many rare earth elements. These materials are either expended during manufacture or baked into the digital products – making their recovery complicated yet vital. A UN report suggests 7% of the global...
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Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal
Education & Development

Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal

...resources. International codes such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights underpin ethical frameworks (United Nations, 1948). You may be aware of key legislation in your own country or the country where you plan to undertake the research, including laws relating to consent, data protection and decision-making capacity, for example, the Data Protection Act, 2018...
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Can we live harmoniously with wildlife?
Nature & Environment

Can we live harmoniously with wildlife?

...human-animal and human-human conflict in our forests...The gruesome images of the half-eaten corpse were flying through cyberspace even before the regular news channels had the full story. A tiger had killed and eaten a man. My first response was to tell everyone not to circulate these images. Ghastly images and sensational reporting of wildlife conflict is a serious...
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Tips for using a large language model
Digital & Computing

Tips for using a large language model

...resources to double-check the output from an LLM. Use internet search engines, Wikipedia, and subject-specific sites to confirm (or deny) what the LLM has told you. 4: LLMs learn from you Many LLMs use the information entered by users to improve their performance. This data is impossible to recall, so be very careful about providing personal or sensitive information to an...
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