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What do safe drinking guidelines mean?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do safe drinking guidelines mean?

...open way, so they can make informed choices. This admirable aim of treating the public as adults capable of making up their own minds seems in stark contrast with the authoritarian tone of publicity from the Department of Health, which baldly says “Men should not drink more than 14 units of alcohol each week, the same as women”. Neither the press release nor the...
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Eid al-Adha
History & The Arts

Eid al-Adha

...Open University's Religious Studies qualifications. Eid al-Adha means feast or festival of the sacrifice. It is also known as Eid al-Kabir (the great feast) and by other names in different countries, such as Qurban Bayrami in Türkiye. It begins on the tenth day of Dhu al-Hijja, the last month of the Muslim calendar, and can last up to four days, and because this calendar...
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Past and present: A 50-year celebration of British Sportswomen
Health, Sports & Psychology

Past and present: A 50-year celebration of British Sportswomen

...Open University, reflects on her sporting heroes and charts the success of female sportswomen...[Sally Gunnell] Trying to compile an article to celebrate British women in sport over the last 50 years was initially very overwhelming! With so many great athletes to choose from, I decided to start by reflecting upon my own personal heroes. Barcelona 1992 was the earliest...
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Supporting new mothers’ mental health during the perinatal period
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting new mothers’ mental health during the perinatal period

...Open University's Health and wellbeing courses and qualifications. The early days of pregnancy and new parenthood are often described as joyful, hopeful, and life affirming (Doss & Rhoades, 2017). A new baby can represent so many things, such as love, connection, and even a fresh start. Yet for many parents, this period also brings fear, confusion, and emotional upheaval...
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Measure the Pulfrich Effect
Science, Maths & Technology

Measure the Pulfrich Effect

...open. As you watch the swinging pendulum, using one ‘bright’ eye and one ‘dim’ eye, the straight side-to-side motion should seem to have changed into an elliptical swing. In other words, the pendulum should appear to be tracing an oval path. This will still work perfectly well if you wear spectacles – just hold the sunglasses in front of one lens. However, if...
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London inside out
Society, Politics & Law

London inside out

...open rather than bounded, hospitable rather than excluding, as ever-changing rather than eternal. And nothing that follows is meant to gainsay that. What I should like to explore about this imagination of place held by so many Londoners, however, is how it might be broadened out. First of all this is an internal, indeed internalised, view of the city. It is about...
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The weakness of European Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The weakness of European Wales

...Open University’s ‘Open Research Online’ repository, see here. References All EU referendum results cited in this article were taken from the Electoral Commission website: http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information-by-subject/elections-and-referendums/past-elections-and-referendums/eu-referendum/electorate-and-count-information [1] Graham Grant, ‘New...
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Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness
Education & Development

Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness

...open. At the same time, they are still constrained and restricted by gender roles and expectations – particularly by school structures (Neary, 2021; Bragg et al., 2018). A society that is more accepting of trans and non-binary lives is open to wider possibilities for all children. This article has focused on treatment for gender dysphoria – the deep feeling that your...
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