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Science doesn't know how free divers do it
Health, Sports & Psychology

Science doesn't know how free divers do it

...together here – each can learn an awful lot from the other. [The Conversation]Martina Amati’s multi-screen installation “Under”, for which she collaborated with Kevin Fong, can be seen at Somewhere in Between, an exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, open until August 27 2018. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Sea level rise in Looe, Cornwall
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Looe, Cornwall

...Open University Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (IPCC) (2013) ‘Summary for policy-makers’, in Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group 1 to the Fifth Assessment Report in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Online]. Available at: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/WG1AR5_SPM_FINAL.pdf Accessed...
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Researching cycling in the US & the UK
Society, Politics & Law

Researching cycling in the US & the UK

...Open University. Peter, you’re in the midst of completing your PhD thesis. Could you tell us more about it? Peter Wood: My work has been looking at the growth of cycling in London over the last few years, vaguely starting in 2000, and we’ve seen cycling just increase hugely, in fact increasing more as each year goes by, and I’ve been looking at why this has been...
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The future of emojis
Languages

The future of emojis

...Open University's Language Studies qualification. Emojis are a product of the digital communications revolution. They were designed specifically to help with mobile and online communication, and are also generated by this new technology themselves. So will they adapt to new forms of communication technology on the horizon? Or will we soon be looking back at them as a...
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Creating a different world: Celebrating Ursula K LeGuin
History & The Arts

Creating a different world: Celebrating Ursula K LeGuin

...opened up new ways of doing fantasy and science fiction, but she was also a poet, essayist, historical fiction writer, and children’s writer. In 2017 she was voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters after having won numerous awards, including the Hugo (voted by fans) and Nebula (voted by writers) awards for a single science fiction book twice. She submitted...
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About the stroop test
Education & Development

About the stroop test

...name the body of the animal. Research conducted using this task has found that children experience the same pattern of difficulties with the animal-stroop task that adults have with the coloured word Stroop task. To find out more about inhibitory control, you can read an extract from the Open University's Child Development course (ED209), executive functions in childhood....
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What makes people happy at work?
Money & Business

What makes people happy at work?

...Open University, discusses this issue: "One group who often can get a good work/life balance is people who work for large organisations whose jobs are not particularly skilled and where the organisation is well-meaning. Some of the big retailers for example, where often the shifts are flexible. The second main group is people who have skills their employers really need,...
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Measure the Astronomical Unit and watch the Transit Of Venus
Science, Maths & Technology

Measure the Astronomical Unit and watch the Transit Of Venus

...Open University. Michael, how are the timings entered onto the website? Michael It’s very, very simple. All you need to do it click on the link, measure the AU and straight away you’ll be able to enter our interactive astronomical unit calculator. First thing you need to say is are you working from the results coming from the TV, so that’s our feed from Egypt. But...
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