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How I wrote Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How I wrote Frankenstein

...human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world. His success would terrify the artist; he would rush away from his odious handywork, horror-stricken. He would hope that, left to itself, the slight spark of life which he had communicated would fade; that this thing, which had received such imperfect animation, would subside into dead matter;...
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Article 5 mins
Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness
Education & Development

Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness

...human rights treaties in history. It’s been ratified by the UK along with all other countries in the world, apart from the USA. Article 12 enshrines the rights of every child to express their views, feelings and wishes in any matters affecting them – and to have these taken seriously. These rights are enshrined in the concept of ‘Gillick competence’ in English and...
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Article 10 mins
A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?
OpenLearn Ireland

A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?

...human brain] Visualising the brain Use your hand to make a brain so you can visualise it. Place your thumb in the middle of your palm as shown in the left-hand side of the figure below. Where your thumb is is where the limbic region is, which is made up of the amygdala and the hippocampus. The amygdala is the part of the brain that is responsible for emotional regulation....
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Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list

...human being approached, whose office and commission were inscrutable. That we were strangers to each other was easily imagined; but how would my appearance, in this remote chamber, and loaded with another's property, be interpreted? Did he enter the house after me, or was he the tenant of some chamber hitherto unvisited; whom my entrance had awakened from his trance and...
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Music as therapy in nineteenth-century Scotland
History & The Arts

Music as therapy in nineteenth-century Scotland

...human nature is capable. (Second Annual Report, 11 November 1841, p. 23) In his Annual Reports for the Crichton, Browne includes anecdotes about patients who appeared to be cured or improved due to their musical experiences. In 1841, for example, he recorded the following: One young lady is at present curing herself of extravagant ideas of her own greatness by copying,...
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Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...humanism - Alberti pointed out that ancient philosophers and kings had enjoyed painting, including it as part of the liberal education of their children and even practising it themselves (Alberti, 1966 [1435], pp. 65–6). Such arguments served to vindicate painting in the minds of status-conscious patrons; they also struck a blow for the status of painters....
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Leadership: external context and culture
Education & Development

Leadership: external context and culture

...resources and values. As the material in this section emphasises, context is no longer just about your immediate working environment but about other influences too – global, national, local, economic and political. Although we need to guard against simplistic causalities, it is relevant to think about how global trends may have local ripples. For example, as leaders we...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Why maps are made
Society, Politics & Law

Why maps are made

...resources. Maps may be a source of conflict and competing claims to land and water. In some cases the conflicts are also cross-cultural. Western-style corporations laid claim to territory in Australia which was occupied by Aboriginal peoples who do not recognise that kind of property ownership. Indigenous peoples in Central America (e.g. in Honduras) have challenged...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs