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How to manage the digital-related stress of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to manage the digital-related stress of technology

...Smartphones and cognition: A review of research exploring the links between mobile technology habits and cognitive functioning. Frontiers in psychology, 8, 605. This resource is part of the 'Wellbeing and Mental Health Collection' created by the Open University in Wales. You can learn more and find courses, articles and other activities on the collection's homepage....
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Riches & misery: the consequences of the Atlantic slave trade
History & The Arts

Riches & misery: the consequences of the Atlantic slave trade

...Open University’s International Studies qualification. The movement of millions of Africans to the New World, during a period of roughly four hundred years, was by any standard, a major historical phenomenon. Rightly, accounts have emphasised the immediate impact, in terms of suffering and deaths, and the human tragedy that this represented. But there were also profound...
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Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology
Society, Politics & Law

Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology

...course the very concept of ‘public health’ has multiple meanings. A relatively uncontroversial starting definition is that public health is: …the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts of society This definition contains the idea of collective efforts furthering the health of a population and that...
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How we can all tackle our digital carbon footprints
Nature & Environment

How we can all tackle our digital carbon footprints

...Open University's Environment courses Shrinking footprints Climate change presents humanity with a series of enormous challenges. Unifying these is a single imperative: to avoid catastrophic climate change impacts by capping global temperature rises to 1.5℃. Achieving this is a monumental challenge, and requires every corporation, government and citizen to make swift,...
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Teaching Languages for long-term memory
Languages

Teaching Languages for long-term memory

...course of a series of 3 or 4 lessons, pupils will encounter the same phrases in reading tasks and listening tasks as well. Over the next year, the phrase will be recapped at regular intervals. For example, the swimming pool phrase might return in future plans (Je vais nager à la piscine – I’m going to swim at the pool) or in the topic of sport (Je suis sportif donc...
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5 benefits of giving up alcohol
Health, Sports & Psychology

5 benefits of giving up alcohol

...course 'The Science of Alcohol.' [Banner of a £2 coin on a pink background. The word 'Money' is embedded on the right.] 2. Money How much you can save will depend on where and what you drink, but as an example, if you had three medium (175ml) glasses of wine at an average bar, pub or restaurant per week, you could save nearly £50 per month using an average cost of...
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In smokiest Sheffield
History & The Arts

In smokiest Sheffield

...opened the valves of my hansom for me. My explanation to my soul was that I had no penny in my pocket, and that it would have been folly little short of crime to give so needy a wretch sixpence. But would it? Would it have corrupted him, since pauperize him further it could not? I advise the reader who finds himself in the like case to give the sixpence, and if he cares...
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The Push - Shove Effect: what Good Friday Agreement has to do with it
Society, Politics & Law

The Push - Shove Effect: what Good Friday Agreement has to do with it

...opening, the man who many Democrats reckoned would carry the party’s standard in the November showdown with Reagan was Senator Gary Hart. The Irish National Caucus had been busy again and the year was shiny and new when Hart responded to the INC with a statement. It was dated January 2. In it, Hart stated that the complex and centuries-old socioeconomic divisions in the...
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