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A ‘disorder’ or just me? Life with bipolar
Health, Sports & Psychology

A ‘disorder’ or just me? Life with bipolar

...Open University’s Health and Wellbeing qualifications. Not everyone with bipolar believe they have an illness, instead accepting their experiences as an integral aspect of themselves, however troublesome this might be. What is it like to live with bipolar? ‘Its like having icing sugar flowing through my blood vessels when I’m manic, when I’m depressed it’s like...
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Your house is full of space dust – it reveals the solar system's story
Science, Maths & Technology

Your house is full of space dust – it reveals the solar system's story

...opens up some pods below the wing containing “sticky pads”, which collect pieces of space dust. Back on Earth NASA use an exceptionally clean laboratory to pick the space dust from the collectors for researchers, like myself, to study. My research is based around these dust particles because they offer our best opportunity to sample comets. The ER2 is a much cheaper...
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Delivering tutorials for dyslexic students
Education & Development

Delivering tutorials for dyslexic students

...open-ended activities. The pattern: ‘guided discovery of language structures- controlled practice – freer practice’ works well and provides a structure that dyslexic students can follow well. Mode of delivery Group work: Ask students to work in groups before eliciting their answers. Working in a small group is reassuring for students with dyslexia who may dislike...
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Making sense of sudden mass deaths
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of sudden mass deaths

...and references Collective loss and Community Resilience After September 11 by Anne Eyre in Making Sense of Death, Dying and Bereavement: An Anthology Edited by Sarah Earle, Caroline Bartholomew and Carol Komaromy, published by Sage & The Open University The grief industry: how much does crisis counselling help or hurt? by Jerome Groopman in The New Yorker 26 January, 2004...
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The navigation apps that help the visually impaired
Society, Politics & Law

The navigation apps that help the visually impaired

...open one. [Visually impaired person using mobile phone] A growing number of specialist navigation apps are available for the visually impaired Cautious optimism Our findings on how smart technologies might help visually impaired people navigate the city reflect our broader impressions of the emergence of the smart city, those being a sense of cautious optimism. Cautious...
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Can the NHS solve its bullying problem?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can the NHS solve its bullying problem?

...open it when you’re in a robust frame of mind and definitely not when you are drunk. Stage 3: get a witness It is essential that you tell someone what is going on. They can be someone that has witnessed the bullying or not, someone you like or not, but someone who you trust to keep their eye on you. Telling someone does a number of things but firstly it forces you out...
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Porn licensing isn't the answer
Digital & Computing

Porn licensing isn't the answer

...Open Rights) is collecting information on cases where sites have been inadvertently blocked by ISPs in their attempts to clamp down on offensive material. How it works in practice In network engineering, there are all sorts of problems with controlling internet traffic for large corporations, service providers and government organisations. Large numbers of people are...
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Ecology and economy under the fig tree in South Asian Cities
Society, Politics & Law

Ecology and economy under the fig tree in South Asian Cities

...Open University's Geography and Environmental Science degree. In my recent visit to Pune (Maharashtra, India), the city where I grew up, at the peak of Indian summer in May when the sweltering heat is beating down the streets, I was struck by the cool shade under large urban trees. It’s the kind of place where you want to be sipping sugarcane juice freshly made by a...
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