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A year in review 2022
Education & Development

A year in review 2022

...social media, completing his Twitter acquisition for an eye-watering US$44 billion, and Jodie Whittaker exited Doctor Who five years after becoming the first female Doctor. New to OpenLearn: check out our new ‘intro to OpenLearn’ animation and our Good hair: perceptions of racism interactive. [Blue banner says population rockets, while rocket gets populated] The...
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A timeline between The OU and the royal family
History & The Arts

A timeline between The OU and the royal family

...Social Sciences (FASS) often in the thick of proceedings. The department has also drawn inspiration from the royals, with their traditions and lives providing a springboard for think pieces, videos and even a free OpenLearn course. As the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations draw near, take a look back across the decades to see how the royals have helped shape what the...
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Could a progressive alliance remake UK politics?
Society, Politics & Law

Could a progressive alliance remake UK politics?

...social upset. Going on the offensive, then, seems to be the only option on the table. It’s difficult to do otherwise: a defence of the indefensible is not possible or sustainable; only attack. The result is a cabinet of ministers who belittle anyone seeking to scrutinise them and a prime minister who announces a snap general election with incredible belligerence,...
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The Partition of British India: Timeline
History & The Arts

The Partition of British India: Timeline

...that British withdrawal and the division of the country was to take place in just two months. The social ruptures and atrocities that accompany the unfolding of this time-compressed partition plan, particularly along the partitioned borderlands of Punjab and Bengal, ensure that the new nation-states of India and Pakistan are born with profound mutual distrust and enmity....
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5 reasons why exercising outdoors is great for people who have dementia
Health, Sports & Psychology

5 reasons why exercising outdoors is great for people who have dementia

...social stimulation, levels decrease significantly. The decline that follows is usually steep and leads to rapid deterioration of the individual. Care home residents, in addition to cognitive impairment already present, are likely to quickly develop co-morbidities that require multiple medications; significant limitations in carrying out day to day activities including...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...worked out mathematically? When you roll a die – assuming it’s fair – it’s equally likely to land on any of its six sides. And because there are six sides, your chance of throwing a six is one in six, or a sixth. Of course, that’s exactly the same as your chance of getting anything else, a one, two, three, four or five, because the die is fair. That may feel a...
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Are robots about to take jobs from the poor?
Science, Maths & Technology

Are robots about to take jobs from the poor?

...work, with “nothing less than a global New Deal for a digital world,” as called for by Ben Ramalingam of IDS? Certainly the day was filled with calls for visionary thinking: “This is an opportunity to reimagine how economies are structured and we should not lose out on that opportunity,” said Anne Jellema, CEO of the Web Foundation. Beximco has flourished partly...
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Why we allow comments - and what we expect from you if you share your views
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Why we allow comments - and what we expect from you if you share your views

...work and opinions, responding to commenters on OpenLearn is not a condition of contributing to the site and any response is voluntary rather than compulsory. If material has been republished from a third-party source, we will perform our best endeavours to seek a response for the original author. The appearance of any comment on OpenLearn - whether yet reviewed by the...
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