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Depression, mood and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Depression, mood and exercise

...work so efficiently. For more information on how to keep our brain working well please click here. Physical activity does not always mean running, swimming or going to the gym or attend classes. These are, of course, healthy activities but may not be suitable for all of us or not at the beginning of a lifestyle change journey. Being physically active also means not...
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The Open University's Carbon Calculator
Nature & Environment

The Open University's Carbon Calculator

...work, all cookies need to be enabled on some browsers. When this calculator was developed the average carbon footprint of a person living in the UK was calculated at 14.6 tonnes CO2e/year. Since then, emissions from the UK electricity system, some other sectors and embedded in imports have fallen as the UK and other countries attempt to move towards net zero. According to...
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It’s all in a name: why I refuse to use a ‘white’ name
Society, Politics & Law

It’s all in a name: why I refuse to use a ‘white’ name

...work as my wife was expecting our second child during the COVID-19 pandemic. I eventually decided to begin the application process but first I needed to dust off my 12+ years old CV and update it. What better than to ask my old friend Jas (short for Jaswant) who had just secured a great job recently I thought? However, the conversation took a turn I wasn’t expecting:...
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Article 10 mins
Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life
History & The Arts

Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life

...such as War and Peace indicate Tolstoy struggled with the meaning of life. This piece explores his pondering of life and death. ...[Leo Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana", 1908, the first color photo portrait in Russia.] Various characters in Tolstoy's epic novel War and Peace have sudden epiphanies relating to the banality of their existence. Early on, Prince Andre tries to
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Article 15 mins
Modelling the planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling the planets

...work might go in the future...Find out more about The Open University's Science courses and qualifications. Astrobiology isn’t a subject on the school curriculum or even in many universities. Could you tell me something about your journey to astrobiology? It was a long journey. A very long journey indeed! I was always fascinated by rocks and minerals, how they formed...
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Building Science and Technology Diplomacy Skills through CARE–KNOW–DO
Education & Development

Building Science and Technology Diplomacy Skills through CARE–KNOW–DO

...working with peers worldwide on health or environmental projects, ethical reasoning to weigh the societal impacts of technologies like artificial intelligence, collaborative problem-solving for tackling sustainability challenges, and policy awareness to understand how evidence shapes international agreements. Education, especially at the secondary and higher levels, plays...
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Investigating a murder with forensic psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating a murder with forensic psychology

...working alongside a team of detectives, and explore how psychology can be applied to an investigation? In this four-week course, you’ll explore the way suspects are dealt with during a police investigation and learn about how psychology can help the police with their enquiries. You’ll become a detective investigating a murder as you join two fictional detectives...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga
History & The Arts

Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga

...social and political organisation - here we have a ‘pagus’ of Roman citizens and a native ‘civitas’, in the city of Thugga. These two groups lived together in the city but had different legal rights and forms of local government with the traditions of the Civitas persisting from the pre-Roman period. These two communities were united in AD205 when the city was...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs