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Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...Open University course (AA308) that is no longer available. The content has been used as the basis for a section of Part 1 of the MA in Philosophy (A853) qualification. Tell us what you think! We’d love to hear from you to help us improve our free learning offering through OpenLearn by filling out this short survey...Introducing consciousness: Learning outcomes - After...
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Explainer: Einstein's Theory of General Relativity
Science, Maths & Technology

Explainer: Einstein's Theory of General Relativity

...source of gravity, so the curvature responds to matter as well. In the words of American theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler, “Matter tells space-time how to curve, and curved space tells matter how to move.” What if we have lots of matter in one place? Imagine you are driving up a steep hill. There is some steepness that is too much for your car to manage,...
US Election 2016: A last week reading list
Society, Politics & Law

US Election 2016: A last week reading list

...source of original news and political content through apps like Newsy and Local Now. Our evidence thus leads us to believe that how people access and engage television content is as important as what they watch. We do not argue that streaming television is causing political participation to increase: Our data are too limited to prove that at this stage. But we do argue...
Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins

...source for his early novels, notably Border Country, while his intellectual formation as a Welsh student who became an academic in the cloistered environment of Cambridge University informed his ground-breaking work on culture. Leonardo Sciascia was from Racalmuto, a small working-class town located deep in the hills of the Sicilian province of Agrigento, where his father...
Adam Peaty: the family behind the athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

Adam Peaty: the family behind the athlete

...sources of both positive and negative sport experiences (Blazo and Smith, 2018) and despite this initial negative influence from his brothers, Peaty’s siblings may also have played a positive role in his development. For example, older siblings have been shown to be positive role models for a work ethic (Côté, 1999) with birth order also associated with athletic...
A brief history of the ever-changing definition of culture
Health, Sports & Psychology

A brief history of the ever-changing definition of culture

...source of cultural values, where they originate from. The competing perspective is that a culture does not exist in the mind but can be found in society. Schwartz (2009) disagrees with Odin – sorry, I mean, Hofstede – and says: ‘Culture is outside the individual. It is not located in the minds and actions of individual people. Rather, it refers to the press to which...
African and Caribbean coaches in international football: is there enough progress?
Health, Sports & Psychology

African and Caribbean coaches in international football: is there enough progress?

...sources highlight that participation and progression are often hampered by financial disparities. The cost of elite licensing remains a significant barrier; for example, the NFF/CAF A-License costs between $2,000 and $3,000, which is a prohibitive sum for many local candidates without National or club backing, in Nigeria. To address this, policy recommendations suggest...
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...Open University course From Enlightenment to Romanticism c.1780-1830 (A207)...Brighton Pavilion: 2 A prince at the seaside - In this section we will take a closer look at the life of George IV and what brought him to Brighton. The Prince of Wales (see Figure 2 ), known familiarly to his friends as ‘Prinny’, was born in 1762 and destined to become Prince Regent in 1811...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs