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Living with Disability
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living with Disability

...energy. Ann's story Scene 2 Ann bears the brunt of her husband (Bob) and daughter's (Zoe) frustrations with Angus. Ann's story Scene 3 Ann and Bob try to celebrate their anniversary, but are interrupted by Angus, and a telephone call from Zoe's school. The news isn't good. Ann's story Scene 4 It's all getting too much for Ann and she seeks help from Social Services. But...
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Relationships at work
Money & Business

Relationships at work

...energy into their domestic relationship. However, recent research found that a healthy relationship can actually contribute to one’s professional success – as it provides the stable emotional foundation to concentrate on their career goals. The Harvard Business Review examines this finding in its article “Why You Spend More Hours at Work When Your Relationship Is...
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Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation
History & The Arts

Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation

...energy. He was rising effortlessly into new worlds whose existence he had never suspected. Somehow, the whole experience was irresistibly funny: he had ‘a great disposition to laugh’, as all his senses competed to exercise their new-found freedom to its limit. Now the gas took Davy to a dimension he had not previously visited. Objects became dazzling in their...
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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?

...energy or fatigue inability to focus feeling anxious feeling hopeless mood swings How to get more dopamine? meditate use a daily to-do list make (and work on) long-term goals eat food rich in L-Tyrosine exercise regularly create something: writing, music, art Checklist: your oxytocin 🤝 How to spot signs of not enough oxytocin? feeling lonely feeling stressed lack of...
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Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery
Science, Maths & Technology

Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery

...energies and temperatures of the giant collision. The Moon’s enrichment in refractory elements – due to these elements preferentially condensing into dust under the high temperatures of the collision, to later accrete to form the Moon. As time passed and observations of the Earth-Moon system swelled, the Earth-Moon system that needed to be created by models became...
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Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...energy consumption which Figure 2b reveals experienced an almost five-fold increase between 1971 and 2015. These so-called ‘development indicators’ tell us a story of economic growth and reduced poverty, structural shifts in China’s economy, massive changes in the way people live, and growing pressures on energy and resources. What fuelled this and what are the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...energy storage and reproductive habits as well as thermoregulation. In many cases, such changes involve ‘ordinary’ physiological mechanisms being pushed to extremes. The study of such physiological adaptations can help us to understand how humans and domestic animals could cope with similar conditions that arise under artificial or pathological conditions. For...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Introducing mammals
Nature & Environment

Introducing mammals

...energy expenditure will make the minimum demand on the meagre pasture around her, and she has a fertile dormant egg within her womb ready to start its development just as soon as conditions improve...Introducing mammals: 5 Milk production (lactation) - One of the defining features of mammals is milk production. It is a remarkable and unique mammalian process technically...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs