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The Science of Fear
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Science of Fear

...better idea how your body and brain both perceive, and react to, fear. If you are interested in finding out more, why not see what courses The Open University offers. Even if you've done no biology before, a foundation course will really open your eyes to what is going on around you in the natural world, and how our bodies work. Want to spook yourself? Check out these......
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Article 15 mins
An expert’s take on AI
Digital & Computing

An expert’s take on AI

...world based on the way we know insects do. The most complex way, and the one that is picking up all modern technologies, such as machine learning, is based on something called a ‘neural net’, which is a model of how the brain works, in a very simplistic way. It’s based on training huge amounts of data into a software system – the neural net – which mimics a...
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Stefan Szymanski on the business of football
Money & Business

Stefan Szymanski on the business of football

...world) football clubs have generally been seen as win maximisers – spending as much as possible on the success of the team subject to breaking even. (In 1971 Sloane wrote an early paper on this topic that is still highly readable. Késenne developed the concept of win maximisation in 1996.) This may just be a reflection of the competitive nature of the European system,...
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An introduction to exoplanets Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...world if you don’t get the hang of it! One sheet represents the distance between the Sun and Mercury, 58 million kilometres. Assuming your toilet paper has sheets which are about 15 cm long, this is a scale of 1 sheet : 58 million km so 15 cm : 58 million km Converting the right-hand side first to metres and then to centimetres to match the units on the left-hand side,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

...World mindful: taking time for what matters Pick one audio practice from one of these apps or websites, and have a go at a mindfulness meditation. When you’re finished, think of three words or short phrases that describe what the experience was like for you and enter them in the text box below. There are no right or wrong answers; just write what it was like for you....
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...world of the twenty-first century, such endeavours have become central to the critical enterprise. To this end, notions of a ‘supranational criminology’ (Smeulers and Haveman, 2008) have been developed. This area of critical criminology is concerned with the study of international crimes, harms, and violations that have an impact on a mass or global scale – for...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...world, with mixed results. More recently, the mass production paradigm has been replaced, but there is as yet no single approach to managing operations that has become similarly dominant. The different approaches for managing operations that are currently popular include: Flexible specialisation (Piore and Sabel, 1984) in which firms (especially small firms) focus on...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Supporting children and young people's wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting children and young people's wellbeing

...world. Activity 1 Is the wellbeing of children and young people in the UK in crisis? Timing: Allow about 45 minutes Read the article ‘Children in the UK the least happy they have been in a decade says report’ (Weaver, 2019), bearing in mind the following questions: In what ways does this article define or discuss wellbeing? Do you think wellbeing is different from...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs