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Should we test drugs on pregnant women?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should we test drugs on pregnant women?

...become determined to reverse this longstanding scientific neglect of pregnant women. Science and society, they argue, have got it utterly wrong: our efforts to protect women and their fetuses have actually put them both in jeopardy. “Ethics doesn’t preclude including pregnant women in research,” says Lyerly. “Actually, ethics requires it.” On 16 December 1961,...
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Article 15 mins
Social psychology: sense-making in crises
Society, Politics & Law

Social psychology: sense-making in crises

...become communicable. This section will introduce you to a concept at the heart of the sense-making process: framing. This concept is an important device for sense-making. But, before you look at how framing shapes sense-making, you will begin by asking: ‘What is a frame?’ What is a frame? [Described image] Figure 1 A framed painting hanging in a gallery-like setting....
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
MSE’s Academy of Money Badge icon
Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...Student Loans Company has become a major lender. Then there’s the high-cost credit market aimed mostly at people on low incomes. They provide high risk, unsecured lending to customers who have limited or no access to mainstream credit. As a reflection of this, the cost of credit is steep. Such lenders include payday lenders. Borrowing money can be arranged quickly via...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga
History & The Arts

Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga

...Oued Khalled, in a fertile landscape of olives and grain. The city is well preserved and extensively excavated. We’ll be exploring the remains to investigate how the town developed and what impact Roman occupation had on the city. Thugga was already a flourishing city the 4th century BC. Well before the kingdom of Numidia was added to the Roman Empire, it was a centre...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...becomes animated describing the torment of those with no voice: his patients. People in a ‘vegetative state’ are awake yet unaware. Their eyes can open and sometimes wander. They can smile, grasp another’s hand, cry, groan or grunt. But they are indifferent to a hand clap, unable to see or to understand speech. Their motions are not purposeful but reflexive. They...
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Surface water
Nature & Environment

Surface water

...become groundwater may eventually re-emerge at the surface as springs where the water table intersects the surface. Almost all streams and rivers have springs or seepages as their ultimate source, or are fed by them at various points along their courses. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 2 study in Environment & Development...Surface water: Learning...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Population ageing: a global health crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Population ageing: a global health crisis?

...becomes ‘elderly’? Discussion In this video, the ‘elderly’ are those who are 60+. What do you think about this way of classifying people as ‘old’? Is it fair? Using this classification, the video then goes onto show how for the first time, there will be more older people than there of working age people in societies across the globe. b.What are the benefits of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Sound for music technology: An introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

Sound for music technology: An introduction

...become what it is today. Throughout its history, music has freely exploited state-of-the-art technological developments, and has had an intimate relationship with sciences such as physics, mathematics and, more recently, electronics and computing. T212 The Technology of Music, the OU's course on music technology, explores many examples that highlight this close...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs