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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?

...system is important as it controls the main emotions associated with anxiety fear, happiness, and anger. Its responsible for the release of hormones that produces the flight, fight or freeze response. Now fold your fingers over your thumb like in the right-hand side of the figure below. This area of the brain is called the cerebral cortex, it’s the newest part of the...
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The Science of Fear
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Science of Fear

...system' - note the prominent size and position of the amygdala. The brain stem (which lies below the brain regions shown in Figure A) is the oldest part of the brain, and messages pass to and from it without the need for conscious thought. This area is lower in the head and is also called the 'lower brain', because it consists of parts similar to those found in some very...
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What is Law?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Law?

...thinking of studying it? Try out the first step in our series '12 Introductory Steps to Law' to find out more about law and equity. ...This audio, a short animation and the questions that follow them, comprise a Step in the series ‘12 Introductory Steps to Law’. You should listen to the audio, watch the animation and then attempt all the questions. Click on the player...
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Fifty years of BBC broadcasting about environmental change issues
Society, Politics & Law

Fifty years of BBC broadcasting about environmental change issues

...think about environmental issues today. We start our search in the archives in 1957. This is no coincidence: it was the launch of the International Geophysical Year. “Why haven’t you heard of the IGY?” asks Prince Philip, as he introduces the BBC’s coverage: “well, probably because peaceful cooperation is a bore” he went on. ‘The Restless Sphere’ was the...
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The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education
Education & Development

The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education

...systems worldwide. My own collaboration with Sylva and Snow taught me the importance of patient, humble and systematic research. Bruner, who died last year at the age of 100, was a professor at Harvard and then Oxford. He believed firmly that all children can thrive in their learning if provided with the right conditions. In the 1960s, he helped develop the US...
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Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...think that climate change is all natural. How are you certain that it's not? TS: Well, just look at the measurements that many societies, the World Metrological Organisation, but every reasonable Met service of every country around the world is taking. I have in particular a paleoclimatic perspective where we see how much the earth's atmosphere, every composition has...
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Birth of the Welfare State
History & The Arts

Birth of the Welfare State

...system of compulsory insurance. Every worker, by contributing to a scheme of national insurance deducted through the weekly or monthly pay packet, would be helping to build up a fund that would pay out weekly benefits to those who were sick or unemployed or who suffered industrial injury. The scheme would pay pensions at the end of a working life to employees and the...
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What are the security risks of living in a Smart City?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are the security risks of living in a Smart City?

...system level, when aggregating up to the level of a political jurisdiction (city or state), many of these processes break down. They argue: “The information security community does a great job of identifying security vulnerabilities in individual technologies and penetration testing teams help secure companies. At the next level of scale, however, things tend to fall...
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