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Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision

...becomes part of a child’s world. It’s not just a passive thing, it’s something they feel part of, which is really powerful. Can you mix blue-chip natural history and environmental issues? So I’d say the world is changing. There may have originally been quite a divide between these two things, so traditional nature documentaries and then talking about the...
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Video 30 mins
Introduction to critical criminology
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to critical criminology

...become known, with the ultimate goal of eliminating criminal behaviour. Since behaviour is involuntary and not a matter of choice for the offender, punitive responses are misplaced...Introduction to critical criminology: The development of critical criminology - In the mid 1960s, positivist criminologies began to be challenged by a range of radical discourses that...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Pain and Aspirin
Science, Maths & Technology

Pain and Aspirin

...students who study the module that this course comes from. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Science...Pain and aspirin: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate general knowledge and understanding of some of the basic facts, concepts and principles relating to the development of medicines demonstrate...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression

...become depressed teenagers? The role of social evaluative threat and reward processing’, Psychological Medicine, vol. 42, no. 10, pp. 2095-107. Strudwick, P. (2010) ‘Treating anxiety with the Alpha-Stim: Patrick Strudwick tests a new device that relieves anxiety and manages pain via "electrotherapy"’, The Telegraph, August 2. Available at:
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
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Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...becomes very relevant when starting to look at that major function of life – your career. Resilience is a characteristic that we all demonstrate to different degrees. In the next activity, you’ll start to consider times in your life when you’ve had to draw on your resilience. Activity 2 Drawing on resilience Timing: Allow about 5 minutes Take some time now to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
What is COVID-19?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is COVID-19?

...become infected, on average. To crack this pandemic we need to get it down below 1. R0 is a function of the Attack Rate (a measure of how catchy the infection is), the duration of infectiousness, and the average number of contact events per case. COVID-19, causing only mild disease in most, exhibits a clever evolutionary strategy. By not incapacitating its hosts, the...
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Falling hard: Why do Americans love pumpkin so much?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Falling hard: Why do Americans love pumpkin so much?

...become synonymous with autumn. Our desire to return to the crisp fall air during a blizzard or heat wave is also accompanied, for many of us, by our nostalgic feelings toward pumpkin spice everything. The sugar makes our brains happy It helps, of course, that most pumpkin spice products are superbly sweet. As I’ve previously written, our brains are strongly wired to...
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Who will lead Britain out of the European Union
Society, Politics & Law

Who will lead Britain out of the European Union

...becomes, the easier it will be for those who remain to point out the inconsistencies (even if they suffer from a similar problem to a lesser degree). By keeping the two groups apart, different messages can be sent out. That in turn, raises the question of what happens after the referendum. For Elliott and Cummings, the vote is a discrete event, to be contested and then...
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