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Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing

...language. However, research shows that wellbeing can mean different things to different people. For example, when we asked Open University students to sum up what wellbeing meant to them, some used words such as ‘contentment’, ‘calmness’ and ‘happiness’ that indicated they thought wellbeing was focused on aspects of mental health. However, other students...
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Brexit: What’s this fine mess you’ve gotten us into? (Apologies to Laurel and Hardy)
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit: What’s this fine mess you’ve gotten us into? (Apologies to Laurel and Hardy)

...free trade and gunboats became increasingly contrasted with resentment over European rule by the Eurocrats in Brussels. Others have focused more on the related belief that the share of the State in national economic activity has become too great; and by extension therefore the European Union (EU) has become part of an increasing problem whereby decisions are made by...
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A journey through two Englands
History & The Arts

A journey through two Englands

...courses, or burnished the golden corn-ricks clustered near the long roofs of some midland homestead, he saw the full-uddered cows driven from their pasture to the early milking. Perhaps it was the shepherd, head-servant of the farm, who drove them, his sheep-dog following with a heedless, unofficial air, as of a beadle in undress. The shepherd, with a slow and slouching...
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World in transition: Managing Resources
Nature & Environment

World in transition: Managing Resources

...course structure. This material is taken from The Open University Course U213 International development: challenges for a world in transition... World in transition: managing resources A brief introduction to this album. Fighting for water Development agency support has led to greater access and management of water. Farmers in Peru have to persevere in their struggle....
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Life Launchpad
Education & Development

Life Launchpad

...bespoke and curated content from the hundreds of courses and resources available on OpenLearn can be used to enhance existing subject knowledge or explore new passions. Moreover, we’ve also collected a range of resources for life outside of education, such as finance, life skills and career guidance. Why not explore the site and see where can Life Launchpad take you?...
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The Writer's Room: J.K. Rowling
History & The Arts

The Writer's Room: J.K. Rowling

...to Petrarch’s poor little cat, now firmly demoted to the kitchen. What these two stories tell us is that writer’s house museums may tell us about the writer’s life, but they tell us as much or more about ourselves as readers. They tell us about the secret life of books, but we choose which secrets we wish to be told. Explore writing and reading with a FREE course...
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About the stroop test
Education & Development

About the stroop test

...frees up our brain to work on other, more important issues. However, on some occasions, being able to prevent ourselves from doing things automatically, or avoid the usual routine action, is also an important human skill. For example, it is this capacity, known as inhibitory control, that enables us to be polite when we're given an unwanted present, or to avoid taking the...
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Properties of gold
Science, Maths & Technology

Properties of gold

...courses and qualifications [vial of gold] Why is gold so expensive? Gold is an unusual metal in that it predominantly exists in the Earth’s crust as the element (so-called ‘native’ gold); that is, it’s not chemically combined with other elements. Silver and copper are the only other metals naturally found in their elemental form. Gold is a relatively rare element,...
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