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Can yoga help us achieve sustainable development goals?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can yoga help us achieve sustainable development goals?

...courses Every year, 21st June is the International Day of Yoga As a spiritual practice, cosmic energy is important in yoga. This marks the day of summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, when the earth’s North Pole is most inclined towards the sun, of special significance. In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly declared 21 June as the International Day of Yoga....
Where are you really from?
Education & Development

Where are you really from?

...course you see that I am a brown-skinned woman who wears a hijab with a foreign sounding name. The legitimacy of my ‘Englishness’ is suddenly called into question and the label can be a difficult pill for many people to swallow. As a classmate at school once said to me, ‘you’re not actually English though’, a comment which stung more deeply than I had...
The gift of being a foster carer
Health, Sports & Psychology

The gift of being a foster carer

...courses The concept of foster care emerged in the mid-16th century, becoming regulated in the mid-19th century. This history is poignant and has shaped our understanding of who are foster carers, what is foster care and what should it look like. It's about relationships, not preconceptions The words ‘foster carer’ may bring to mind thoughts, meaning and images that...
Is your social media use impacting your future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is your social media use impacting your future?

...courses and qualifications. In the digital age, almost all of us have a ‘digital footprint’. This is the data you leave behind when you engage with the Internet and can include social media ‘likes’, posts, pictures or emails. In other words, we have some information about us on the Internet; this could be something as simple as an email, online purchases or our...
Oxygen, blood and the body
Science, Maths & Technology

Oxygen, blood and the body

...course S315 Chemistry: further concepts and applications where this article was adapted from. Explore articles and free courses or study with the OU References Flexman, A.M., Del Vicario, G. and Schwarz, S.K.W. (2007) ‘Dark Green Blood in the Operating Theatre’, The Lancet, vol. 369, p. 1972. Hazes B., Kalk K. H., Hol W. G. J., Magnus K. A., Bonaventura C.,...
W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times
Society, Politics & Law

W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times

...courses that look at African American experience, is one way in which the line can be crossed. ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ and ‘The Souls of Black Folk’ I’m looking here at two of the prolific canon of work that Du Bois produced, his study of African American urban life, The Philadelphia Negro, and his Homeric account (i.e. epic and poetic), The Souls of Black...
Matt Ridley - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Matt Ridley - Stories of Change

...course, but yes, they have definitely downgraded the possibility of these alarming tipping points. The methane burp from the Arctic is one of them, etc. RH: There’s still a lot of uncertainties about that, you would agree? MR: There’s a lot of uncertainties about everything, yes. RH: There are indeed. Which makes me, as an interviewer, slightly worried when I hear...
Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake
Science, Maths & Technology

Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake

...course 2010 where we are now, which was another film, the year we made contact and here we are we still haven’t made contact. Frank Drake: Well we should have. What happened was people became sceptical, particularly people who are in charge of the purse strings, of the money. And we started in the mid-1980s to construct extremely powerful SETI search systems. And this...