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Clickety Clack: a railway poem
Society, Politics & Law

Clickety Clack: a railway poem

...University's Social Sciences and History courses. [A women worker on the railways, first world war, sitting in front of a cargo vehicle, uniform, wearing a cap and smiling.]Clickety Clack Clickety Clack The rhythm of the railway track. With all the men folk off to war. It’s women left to do the chores Corsets and skirts are cast aside Whistles, trousers, gold buttons...
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DRM explained
Digital & Computing

DRM explained

...University decry attempts to provide digital locks on content...EDITOR'S NOTE: John Perry Barlow, internet pioneer, died February 7th 2018. In 2010 he was a participant in the OU/BBC programme The Virtual Revolution, and we were lucky enough that he agreed to offer some extra insights for OpenLearn. For John Perry Barlow, DRM locks fundamentally break the system they're...
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Business Bursts: Branding
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Branding

...an area as I said, that can lead to some quite sharp controversy, because at the end of the day what people are saying is that consumers are being sold an empty image and having to pay more for it, rather than just being sold a basic rational product or commodity. 3’40” Give yourself a business boost Find out what The Open University Business School can do for you...
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Is Mental Health ‘All in the Mind’?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is Mental Health ‘All in the Mind’?

...University Press. Durkheim, E. (1971) ‘Anomic Suicide.’ In K. Thompson and J. Tunstall (eds) Sociological Perspectives. Harmondsworth: Penguin. Engel, G. L. (1977) ‘The need for a new medical model: a challenge for biomedicine.’ Science, 196 pages 129-136. Leach, J. (2015) Improving Mental Health through Social Support: Building Positive and Empowering...
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How the OpenLearn employability hub can help you get ahead
Money & Business

How the OpenLearn employability hub can help you get ahead

...University’s ten key employability skills – the stuff that really matters to employers. These include: Communication Collaboration Problem Solving Self-awareness Self-management and resilience Digital and information literacy Numeracy Global citizenship Commercial and sector awareness You can search the hub by any of these themes, making it super easy to find what you...
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Ta, cheers, much obliged: A brief history of 'thanks' in English
History & The Arts

Ta, cheers, much obliged: A brief history of 'thanks' in English

...University's BA (Honours) English Language qualification. [Bright pink thank you note with yellow words in an orange envelope.] The practice of saying ‘thank you’ – of expressing gratitude to someone for an act of kindness – is a fundamental element in the way we interact with one another. One of those small, embedded traditions which make up the everyday stuff of...
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Light: Wave-particle duality
Science, Maths & Technology

Light: Wave-particle duality

...universal phonetic alphabet, Young was experimenting with the diffraction of light by narrow apertures and the interference of light due to reflection by thin films. His observations of coloured fringes in these experiments demonstrated that light must travel from place to place in the form of a wave, and the different colours comprising white light could be characterized...
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The psychological benefits of multilingualism
Languages

The psychological benefits of multilingualism

...with a new language, and to welcome the inevitable linguistic uncertainty that is to come with open arms. After all, the psychological benefits of multilingualism speak for themselves. About Séverine Hubscher-Davidson - Séverine is a Senior Lecturer in French and Translation, and the Head of Translation, School of Languages and Applied Linguistics, The Open University...
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