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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
Form and uses of language
History & The Arts

Form and uses of language

...Think about whom he is addressing and how he uses words and sentences to get his point across. Discussion You may have noticed some or all of the following: In his ‘Protest’ there is only one ‘character’ – Sassoon himself, who addresses his audience in the first person. Every sentence except one (the one that begins the last paragraph, which is all one sentence)...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Exploring cells with digital fluorescence microscopy
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring cells with digital fluorescence microscopy

...think about the zoom a camera can offer you. However, whilst the structure is enlarged, it might become blurry and you can’t see the details. The ability of being able to separate two neighbouring objects in an image is described with the term resolution (i.e. the two objects can be resolved; they do not appear as a single object). You might be familiar with the concept...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 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
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