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Melanoma: an emerging concern
Health, Sports & Psychology

Melanoma: an emerging concern

...out about The Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. What is melanoma? Melanoma is a serious form of skin cancer that arises from melanocytes, the cells responsible for producing melanin, or colour in the skin. The incidence of melanoma has been increasing globally, with 132,000 cases reported annually among the adult population. While it is...
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Earth Day on OpenLearn
Nature & Environment

Earth Day on OpenLearn

...out more about alternative energy sources in some of our free courses on renewable energy: We've also included some tips on how you can make some changes to protect our Earth in the free resources below... Change your diet One of the best ways to help the environment is to reduce your intake of meat and dairy products. A person eating a 75g beef burger once a day, over...
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The planet as the stakeholder
Money & Business

The planet as the stakeholder

...out tasks, through to the end customer. Costing, financing and monetary values are put on all inputs, processes and outputs. When stakeholder analysis is applied in this finance-driven way, it has little, or nothing to say about sustainability. It’s essential to challenge this kind of business ideology, often termed ‘the race to the bottom’ if we are to achieve...
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Young children and the climate crisis
Education & Development

Young children and the climate crisis

...and even plastic as products of our shared world. We need to live alongside, and not in charge, of life on our planet. To learn more about identifying the support needs of young children, check out this free OpenLearn Create course Scottish early learning and childcare practitioners' courses [Screenshot of animation for COP26] Click on the banner to explore the COP26 hub...
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Why I'd say yes, yes, yes to the Bad Sex award
History & The Arts

Why I'd say yes, yes, yes to the Bad Sex award

...out after winning the Literary Review’s 2014 Bad Sex in Fiction Award. I speak from experience, having essayed a few torrid moments in my last novel Dark Aemilia. Given that my protagonist had inspired the later, bleaker Shakespeare sonnets, which give a compelling insight into the pain of unrequited or rejected love, it seemed appropriate that she and the infatuated Mr...
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‘Literary Caregiving’: The War Library and Endell Street Military Hospital Library
History & The Arts

‘Literary Caregiving’: The War Library and Endell Street Military Hospital Library

...out more about their interests and background so that they could make recommendations as well as meet requests, became an opportunity to enjoy conversation and experience care based on books and reading. Books were part of the men’s cure at Endell Street, and their availability was part of what I see as care ‘in the round’ at this hospital. It is a pleasure to be...
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How Elvish has had greater impact than Esperanto
Languages

How Elvish has had greater impact than Esperanto

...out a book introducing his own creation. He published this under the pseudonym Doktoro Esperanto, which in time became the name of the language itself. The construction of imaginary languages, or conlangs, has a long history, dating back to the 12th century. And Tolkien and Zamenhof are two of its most successful proponents. Yet their aims were very different, and in fact...
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The rural dimension – after rundale
OpenLearn Ireland

The rural dimension – after rundale

...the West one sees a variant in the so-called ‘ladder’ farms where dwellings are strung out like a street and holdings run parallel to one another and perpendicular to the line of settlement. [Dispersed farms in Malin Beg] Dispersed farmsteads These ‘ladder farms’ represent a compromise between the old and the new; it is one way in which the operation of ‘national’ processes has been affected by the local culture and ......
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