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How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri
Health, Sports & Psychology

How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri

...sources, she was a charismatic teacher who taught a flowing sequences of postures, many with at least one knee bent, resting a foot in the groin. Sunita’s signature technique was the “slipped second” during which one calls to mind anxieties, before releasing them completely for “just one second”. Explaining to listeners of BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour in 1961,...
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Merry microbes: how might festive feasting affect your gut microbiota?
Science, Maths & Technology

Merry microbes: how might festive feasting affect your gut microbiota?

...source, while the sprout-hating population might retract and shrink. Similarly, microbes that love chocolate might live their best life as we tuck into the selection boxes, while other microbes prefer the cheese and biscuits. All the while releasing their metabolites, these include Short Chain Fatty Acids, which are essential for health, and gases that are often released...
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Understanding children: babies being heard
Education & Development

Understanding children: babies being heard

...open mouth looking for nipple]. By the time he was about three months old he had a “tired” cry which was more of a whinge and an occasional “colic” cry which was more of a shriek!’] (Mother of 17-month-old boy)...Understanding children: Babies being heard: 3 Watching babies - In the next activity you will be introduced to some other babies, all about six months...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece
History & The Arts

Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece

...source of shame; and finally a source of biological knowledge. It wasn’t just city girls like Mary who reached for the book. When the noted Shakespeare scholar A. L. Rowse went up to Oxford in the early 1920s, he never mentioned to his mother that he was studying Aristotle, because, as he explained, the name Aristotle, “would have meant to my mother, as secretly to...
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Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America

...Source: The Irish American, June 22, 1861) Serving under the flag of the United States helped to enhance the Catholic Irish position in the United States by demonstrating Irish loyalty to the American nation as well as their fighting spirit. Following America’s entry into the First World War in April 1917, the US government again sought Irish recruits by appealing to...
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Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change

...Open University Transcript Stories of Change Project Michael Jacobs interview Key RH: = Roger Harrabin, interviewer MJ: = Michael Jacobs special adviser to Gordon Brown from 2004-10, participant RH: So I’m in a restaurant in Bonn and the climate change talks have just broken for the evening, in so far as they ever do properly break, and I’m sitting having a beer, a...
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The Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

The Moon

...source of moonquakes, so this marks the base of the lunar lithosphere, below which it is probably slowly convecting. Like the Earth's mantle, that of the Moon is approximately peridotite in composition, though there are signs that it varies in detail from region to region. The Moon's core is between about 220 and 450 km in radius (so the core-mantle boundary is at least...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...Open University course DU301 A world of whose making?...Rights and justice in international relations: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the different interpretations of internationally recognised notions of rights and justice give examples of implementing justice in an international sphere investigate questions in...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs