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The meaning of home in later life
Health, Sports & Psychology

The meaning of home in later life

...resources, skills and recognition of ageing needs by the retail market. Second, where an older person’s social network is variable they may need support from nonfamilial carers. For some ‘living at home’ can be central to maintaining levels of autonomy which may have to be delegated to someone else whether in a personal home or by moving to a care home. Here, the...
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Is Brexit going to unseat English as the lingua franca?
Languages

Is Brexit going to unseat English as the lingua franca?

...education and higher learning in universities across Europe and beyond. Persian provides another example: after Iran fell to the Arab invasion, Persian became the language of the army that spread Islam into Central and South East Asia, and was then taken up by Turks, Mongols and, in fact, all Muslim rulers of the region as the administrative language of their realms....
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What happened to Rio 2016's leftover food?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happened to Rio 2016's leftover food?

...educated guesses as to how much food and ingredients to have on hand to make nourishing meals. Inevitably there’s going to be a surplus, whether it’s cases of bruised fruit and vegetables, or leftover palettes of potatoes and rice. [Massimo Bottura] Massimo Bottura Now an international group of chefs and anti-hunger activists calling themselves RefettoRio Gastromotiva...
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How did a natural disaster take us closer to Brexit?
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How did a natural disaster take us closer to Brexit?

...educate us in an uninterested way. The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was the worst industrial disaster in US history and 4.9 million barrel crude were released into the environment. In addition to the huge immediate damage, long-term effects are as yet unknown but are likely to include oil remaining in the food chain for generations to come. The...
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Herodotus and the invention of history
History & The Arts

Herodotus and the invention of history

...Open University’s Classical Studies courses and qualifications....Herodotus and the invention of history: Introduction - With the information explosion online, how can you tell fake news from the real thing, or be more sensitive to how information can be weaponised? In the fifth century BCE, a Greek by the name of Herodotus faced a similar challenge when he set out to...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introduction to critical criminology
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to critical criminology

...miss out Course image Morten F in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence. If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Heritage case studies: Scotland
History & The Arts

Heritage case studies: Scotland

...Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence. Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 © Mary-Catherine Garden Figures 5, 6 and 7 © Tim Benton. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introduction to Spanish
Languages

Introduction to Spanish

...Open University Library webpage and there choose the Library Resources. On the right hand side you can see ‘Dictionaries’ – click on that and scroll a bit down. You can see, for example, the Oxford dictionaries here. Click on that. Choose your language – in this case we will choose Spanish and we will see, for example, Spanish to English. Let’s look at the word...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs