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Dan Rees - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dan Rees - Earth in Vision

...becoming more and more important in making our shows and that extends right up into the blue chip, expensive, glossy programmes, both because we have so much of it now, every series we make, particularly the big series, Frozen Planet, Life and so on, they generate a huge amount of rushes, most of which is extremely good quality, but you can only use an hour and you might...
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Should the EU give up on 'ever closer' union?
Society, Politics & Law

Should the EU give up on 'ever closer' union?

...become a project that both enlarges and shrinks simultaneously; that deepens integration in some policy areas and risk disintegration in others. The UK’s exit from the EU is certainly to blame, but the disintegration dynamics are present in many other national landscapes, with Euroscepticism, populism and political disaffection on the rise. Brexit should be considered a...
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Article 10 mins
Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?

...becomes more embedded in sport, its role in coaching is growing. From tracking performance to predicting injury, its potential is vast but can it ever replicate the intuition, empathy and trust that define great coaching? This article explores the promises and pitfalls of AI in the future of sport...The application of different technologies to enhance sports training has...
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Article 5 mins
Does the rural idyll really exist?
Nature & Environment

Does the rural idyll really exist?

...ou could probably look at both the change in your social and the physical environment. You’ve got clean air, you’ve got these beautiful views and so on. As a psychologist we would probably try and find a way of teasing out the variables. I can think of a study where people were comparing two hospital wards, one of which looked out on to a man-made environment the...
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Article 15 mins
Life after sport: giving back
Health, Sports & Psychology

Life after sport: giving back

...OU have teamed up with Abertay University to produce a really valuable piece of work, first of all acknowledging that athletes go through many phases in their career. When you are on the outside looking in it is not always easy to see it. Retirement is hard for athletes who have dedicated often many years of their childhood and life to the sport so for them to understand...
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How to make the most out of our visit to the Great Outdoors: walking with The Parks Trust and staying mindful
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to make the most out of our visit to the Great Outdoors: walking with The Parks Trust and staying mindful

...OU and The Parks Trust https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/social-care-social-work/keep-me-walking-people-living-dementia-and-outdoor-environments Vseteckova J, Dadova K, Gracia R, Ryan G, Borgstrom E, Abington J, Deepak - Gopinath M, Pappas Y (2020) Barriers and facilitators to adherence to walking group exercise in older people living with dementia...
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Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective

...students and practitioners of Western art music, improvisation is a foreign concept. Jazz (or Indian, African or other music) can be a puzzle, dismissed by some as a lesser art and accepted by others only as some kind of unfathomable mystery. When we hear a piece of Indian music, and say that the musicians must be great improvisers to produce such music without a score,...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
General principles of cellular communication
Science, Maths & Technology

General principles of cellular communication

...become an extrinsic stimulus. When this happens they could also be considered a first messenger too. We will avoid use of terms such as first or second messengers, and instead consider cellular communication pathways as sequential chains of interacting components. To understand information flow through signalling pathways, the components are usually considered to be...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs