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Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers
Money & Business

Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers

...educated school child of today ought to have as a world view, it is very different from what it was when I was a child, or even when my children were children. It goes something like this. The world is a complex of systems and sub-systems, a very complicated interaction. Some are arranged heirarchically like the cells and organs of the body and layers of government. Some...
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What do we need to know about our memory?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we need to know about our memory?

...educational activities. You can find these on the What’s On section of the website, or you can contact them directly by sending an email to info@theparkstrust.com or phoning the office. But you don’t need to live in Milton Keynes to get the benefits of these activities. You can care for your memory in very simple ways such as taking a walk and noticing things along...
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Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London
Languages

Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London

...educated at a convent near Ravenna, Italy, where, at age five, she died of a fever. Byron arranged for the body to be sent back to England, with a degree of pomp in its final leg that was to foreshadow Byron’s own funeral procession (Byron himself died in Greece exactly two years to the day after Allegra). Allegra’s little coffin was transported from the dock in...
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Adam Peaty: the family behind the athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

Adam Peaty: the family behind the athlete

...Education Review, 13 (3), pp.369-384. Eccles, J. A., Futterman, T., Goff, R., Kaczala, S., Meece, C., & Midgley, J. (1983). Expectations, values, and academic behaviors. Achievement and achievement motivation, 283-331. Eccles, J. S. (1993). School and family effects on the ontogeny of children's interests, self-perceptions, and activity choices Nebraska Symposium on...
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Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...Open University, is interviewed by Roger Harrabin for 'Stories of Change'...[Tamsin Edwards] Tamsin Edwards is a Lecturer in Environmental Sciences at the Open University. She uses computer models to study climate change and its impacts, particularly how confident we can be in model predictions. She blogs for PLOS at All Models are Wrong and on Twitter she is @flimsin. ©...
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I had cancer - now stop supporting just me
Health, Sports & Psychology

I had cancer - now stop supporting just me

...Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. What’s it like to be a teenager with cancer? What changes? Does anything change? We’ve all had questions about cancer. It’s scary. And unfamiliar to most. When did you get cancer? I was sixteen. It was my sixth and final year of high school. Pressures and prospects on the horizon. At that time...
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Why is Croatia adopting a more welcoming approach to the refugees?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is Croatia adopting a more welcoming approach to the refugees?

...open. And while public figures have expressed concern about being able to cope with the numbers, there remains a strong desire to help. This is in stark contrast to the vehemently hostile approach taken by leading figures in Hungary and Serbia. It was also potentially surprising given Croatia’s reputation as a fairly closed and xenophobic society. Only recently, it...
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Smarty pants: wearable electronics will recharge your life
Science, Maths & Technology

Smarty pants: wearable electronics will recharge your life

...open up an iPhone 5, you’ll see that a large proportion of the phone’s volume is taken up by the battery. But flexible batteries that can be incorporated into fabrics offer a game-changing way of powering personal devices – and take us into a new world of wearable electronics. My colleagues and I form one of several applied research groups developing both flexible...
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