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The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'
Health, Sports & Psychology

The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'

...course in an unfamiliar subject that interests you. The more interested and engaged your brain, the more likely you’ll be to continue learning, and the greater the benefits you’ll experience. Take on a project that involves design and planning. Learn a new dance. Dancing is amazingly stimulating for both our body and our brain as we focus not only on music, rhythm but...
The role sustainable chemistry plays in shaping the planet's future
Science, Maths & Technology

The role sustainable chemistry plays in shaping the planet's future

...courses. Sustainable use of resources must be considered because fossil fuels and other mined commodities are being depleted, and there is increasing demand from humanity. Achieving sustainability involves many challenges, from preserving resources to tackling pollution arising from plastics, persistent organic pollutants and gaseous emissions. These pollutants are...
Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil. London. Random House Pierre, J. (2013) The Predicaments of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race, Chicago. Chicago University Press Phillips, C; Earle, R.; Parma, A. and Smith, D. (2019) ‘Dear British criminology: Where has all the race and racism gone?’, Theoretical Criminology, on-line first:...
Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list

...course on Cybersecurity: Chelsea Manning (born Bradley Manning) was a United States Army soldier who leaked confidential information, including 250,000 United States diplomatic messages and 500,000 United States Army reports as well as videos of military action in Iraq, to the WikiLeaks website. Manning obtained copies of classified materials during service in Iraq in...
Stay in control and hide the fear: The psychology of skydivers and climbers
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stay in control and hide the fear: The psychology of skydivers and climbers

...courses and qualifications. [A sky diver's eye view] Laurie Taylor: As a teenager I had a few goes on the Grand National at Blackpool, but my most daring fairground ride was always Wallis’s Wonder Waltzer. Do you remember the Waltzer? It was those egg-shaped carriages holding up to half-a-dozen people, and the chrome rail that was lowered into your lap, and then the...
What You Need to Know About Psychometrics
Health, Sports & Psychology

What You Need to Know About Psychometrics

...course of action from a list of options will be asked to choose most and least effective answer; or rate possible answers for effectiveness; or choose one most practical course of action, so must read the instructions carefully! commonly used for many job roles, even at entry-level, sometimes within the online application form/process itself Personality tests evaluates...
The health impacts of FGM
Health, Sports & Psychology

The health impacts of FGM

...course. Who performs FGM and how is it undertaken FGM is commonly performed by lay ‘cutters’ within practising communities. It can include using non-medical instruments to cut skin and solid tissues and structures, without providing anaesthetic for pain relief. Many women and girls do not consent, are not told what will happen, and are forcibly restrained during the...
Business ethics
History & The Arts

Business ethics

...course it’s very easy to locate a very small organisation, but when one thinks of Shell or the mafia it’s very hard to give them a location as it would be just to point to the lamppost. And that brings up another point. You can’t generally smell them or feel them; they don’t seem to be observable in the way that a table or a lamppost is. You can see individual...