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Investigating psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating psychology

...thinking and how they are grouped together in terms of direct contact with and influence on each other. The course is split into three separate sessions: each session should take you around one hour to work through. One of the keys to understanding psychology is to familiarise yourself with its history and core questions. For this reason, The Open University has...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Mathematics for science and technology

...system of units based on multiples of ten...Maths is intimately entwined with science and technology, whether it is used to analyse data collected on plants in the Amazon rainforest, to calculate the trajectory of a comet or design a bridge to connect two countries. This means that science and technology go hand-in-hand with maths, and that a firm grasp of maths is...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Earthquakes
Science, Maths & Technology

Earthquakes

...thinking that the danger was over. This was a fatal action, as during the next few hours several more tsunami waves arrived, up to 6 m high. The third and fourth waves caused massive destruction, washing more than 500 m inland and killing 11 people. The waves overturned cars (see Figure 1), moved and destroyed houses and sank boats in the harbour. The tsunami also caused...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Do tax breaks work well for promoting creative industries?
History & The Arts

Do tax breaks work well for promoting creative industries?

...think that it packs more action and character into the same amount of time as an episode of any TV show.) What piqued my interest in the short in addition to the animation was how it was funded. Yes, Little Witch Academia was created by a studio called Trigger and although a group of ex-Gainax animators were involved, the short itself was the product of many young...
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Article 5 mins
Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music
History & The Arts

Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music

...think you need to, become more wide-ranging and eclectic in your musical tastes. To appreciate fully certain genres and specific pieces of music also requires us to understand the social and cultural contexts in which such music is produced. This is especially true for rock and pop music. Indeed, academics have argued that individuals and social groups show a preference...
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Article 10 mins
Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief

...think of Alan every day, but now I have a new purpose in life, and I feel energy returning to me. I might be a widow, but now I am an author too. For more information about me and my book, visit here. [Hazel Carter holding a copy of her book.] About grief: a reflection by an academic grief researcher Many of you reading this may resonate with some, or all, of what Hazel...
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Article 5 mins
Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?

...think we're past the point where we treated people from different cultures as something to stare at. Ingrid Piller isn't so sure...One of the central arguments of my book Intercultural Communication is that, even today, much intercultural communication is approached from an orientalist perspective, i.e. a Eurocentric and colonial way of seeing people from other countries...
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Article 5 mins
A history of child protection
Education & Development

A history of child protection

...think about it. It seemed that once again, the services which had been set up to protect children were failing. It’s possible that child protection services were bounced into over-reacting. Certainly, there followed three high profile scandals of children being removed by social workers from their homes on suspicion of widespread parental sex abuse in Cleveland (1987),...
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Article 10 mins