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Climate change and the built environment
Science, Maths & Technology

Climate change and the built environment

...physical objects such as buildings, roads and pavements, sewerage treatment works and landfill sites. It also plays an essential role in our social world, providing us with shelter and warmth, belonging and protection, connections and barriers, and a sense of identity and history. It is an indispensable part of our physical and social lives. However, it is also...
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Brexit and the Irish border
OpenLearn Ireland

Brexit and the Irish border

...physical manifestation of the division between those who wished to remain in the United Kingdom and those who wanted a united Ireland; a 32 county state independent from Britain. Many unionists firm allegiance was to the British crown and to what they only referred to as ‘the mainland’ of the island of Britain. In contrast, an IRA campaign from 1956 to 1962 attacked...
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Does the rural idyll really exist?
Nature & Environment

Does the rural idyll really exist?

...physically. Terry: I’ve always wondered how growing up in Coventry affected me. It was a very bleak place, just subways, flyovers and concrete. This is my old school. I was released from this school at 15 without any qualifications. There was a choice between football or music, so I joined a band. It was rock n roll and I wrote songs about my experiences. I thought I...
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Film as a Historical Source
Health, Sports & Psychology

Film as a Historical Source

...physical stature and expressions; as well as noting indications of the conditions of work from the types of tools and implements they carry. But to say much more about the photograph, and begin to understand its significance, we must turn to secondary sources. We need to know about the mining industry where and when the picture was taken. A broader social, political,...
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Article 15 mins
Foreign games consoles finally enter the Chinese market
Money & Business

Foreign games consoles finally enter the Chinese market

...physical health. In 2000, the State Council published a notice, joined by the Ministry of Culture and another seven administrative departments, decreeing the prohibition of manufacturing and selling game consoles in mainland China, claiming it “seriously jeopardizes young people and disturbs the social order.” This is an excerpt from the notice:
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Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?

...physical abuse. The colour of our skin was mocked as was our clothing. It always makes me smile when I walk past the tanning aisles in a supermarket as people stand there selecting which shade of skin they would like to be. I can’t help but make cheeky eye contact with someone as they decide. The irony isn’t lost on me and nor has how clothing and fashion have changed...
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Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...Physics at the University of Bern. From 2008 to 2015 he co-chaired Working Group I "The Physical Science Basis" of the IPCC, the United Nations Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change. Thomas Stocker has co-authored more than 200 publications; he holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Versailles and has received several awards for his work. He is a Fellow...
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Introduction to child psychology
Education & Development

Introduction to child psychology

...physical and cognitive changes that occur during childhood?' As you work through this material, you will also gain a deeper understanding concerning how psychologists work with young children across a range of applied settings through activities and audio-visual materials...Childhood is a time of rapid growth and development, and studying these changes is endlessly...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs