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A brief history of Science
History & The Arts

A brief history of Science

...human genome, take a quick crash through the development of scientific knowledge...Find out more about The Open University's Science courses and qualifications Humankind has always been inquisitive, needing to understand why things behave in a certain way, and trying to link observation with prediction. For example, since prehistoric times we have observed the heavens and...
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myf.cymru – Mental health through the medium of Welsh
Education & Development

myf.cymru – Mental health through the medium of Welsh

...resource aimed at Welsh speaking higher education students studying in Wales and beyond...[Graphic of woman sitting smiling looking at a screen] Myf.cymru is a national initiative dedicated to enhancing mental health and wellbeing support for Welsh-speaking students across Wales and beyond. The project focuses on raising awareness, reducing stigma, and encouraging open...
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Wellbeing and mental health collection
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wellbeing and mental health collection

...resources that aim to promote positive wellbeing and support good mental health...The collection provides resources on a range of wellbeing subjects for students studying at Higher or Further Education level. Staff in the Higher and Further Education sector can also use the resources to improve their knowledge of positive health behaviours, building their capacity to...
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No place like home: Prisons and homelessness
Society, Politics & Law

No place like home: Prisons and homelessness

...human identities, and the creating a sense of ‘rootedness’. Home is about a sense of ‘belonging’ and feeling part of a wider community. A home is safe, familiar and comfortable. Home is a place of rest, recuperation, care and respite, something essential for the well-being of all humans. [A homeless man sleeping in a park] The prison is not an environment that can...
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What Brexit and Trump mean for Global Justice and International Development
Society, Politics & Law

What Brexit and Trump mean for Global Justice and International Development

...human rights) and the worth of equality (protected through institutions of global justice). The ideal character of this liberal cosmopolitanism offered a rather abstract, and in some respects naïve, understanding of the global structure of society. It lost track of concrete and localised problems of social relations, including oppression and exploitation in the era of...
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Methods in Motion: Occupying spaces in Hong Kong and London
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Occupying spaces in Hong Kong and London

...Resource’. My research for the project has included a field trip to Hong Kong to document the Occupy camp that was established under the HSBC (Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) building (designed by Norman Foster) in Central Hong Kong on October 15, 2011, and documentation of various Occupy events organised in London since the dissolution of the camp outside...
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Indigenous ceremonies and climate change
Nature & Environment

Indigenous ceremonies and climate change

...human world. In 2015 ORIGINS Festival involved another Totonac event. The Voladores (Birdmen) de Papantla erected a tall pole in a park near the Grenville Tower, London, and the performers enacted a 1500-year-old ceremony originally intended to end a long-lasting drought. While one person stood on a small platform at the top of the pole, four others, roped to the pole,...
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Can we be categorised by our DNA?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can we be categorised by our DNA?

...humans are rarely stagnant and isolated – we flow, spread, and mix. This genetic continuity means that the genetic landscape is actually formed of gradients, shaped by geographical features. For example, France and South Africa are far apart indeed, and the native people are also visually very distinct. But there is definite continuity in geography and the people –...
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