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Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness

...out what works best for you. I mean personally I like to run through everything as a group so that you get everyone’s perspective and then, you know, and then I spend some time on my own while I’m warming up thinking, “Right, this is what I need to be doing,” and going through my own specific role. Caroline: What you sometimes find is in team sports it’s a lot...
28 July 2005: 4 o'clock and all is well
OpenLearn Ireland

28 July 2005: 4 o'clock and all is well

...out and the depth and content of the submissions. We are proud of the comradely way in which this truly historic discussion was conducted. The outcome of our consultations show very strong support among IRA Volunteers for the Sinn Fein peace strategy. There is also widespread concern about the failure of the two governments and the unionists to fully engage in the peace...
England’s Historic Battlefields: the Wars of the Roses
History & The Arts

England’s Historic Battlefields: the Wars of the Roses

...out...Transcript Battlefields are integral to ‘our nation’s story’. Battles determined the fate of individual kings, changed the country’s linguistic and cultural character, and defined our very identity. As such, the places where these clashes of arms took place are contested spaces whose meaning and significance – and even their location – is hotly debated...
Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage
Society, Politics & Law

Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage

...out of water that realises there is water (the medium). I pay great attention to context and use language to construct something that can be related to or as an entry point. When you practice communicating in a language that is inevitably material, language is multidimensional (like the voice) even if it’s a single word on a white background. [Plant by Laura Malacart]...
Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited
OpenLearn Ireland

Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited

...out his career, although it became a core part of his music from the late 1970s onwards as he looked for ways to bring ‘more artistry’ to his songwriting and stretch the lyrical possibilities of the blues beyond standards like ‘Little Red Rooster’ and ‘Hoochie Coochie Man’. [Rory Gallagher at the Calpe Blues Festival, 1984 (Photo reproduced with permission of...
A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast
OpenLearn Ireland

A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast

...out about The Open University's Politics courses. Episode 1: The role of the Arts in a post-conflict society Episode 1 host and guests [Photograph of our host, Jordan Keeny.] Host: Jordan Kenny, BBC Radio 1 Jordan Kenny’s a TV and radio presenter/reporter, normally heard on BBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat programme. Originally from Dromore in County Down, he worked for BBC...
The Seasons in Art
History & The Arts

The Seasons in Art

...out that spring does not occur in the same way everywhere in the world. In Russia, for example, the coming of spring brings the thaw, when the accumulated snow and ice of the winter melts, so that the season is associated with mud and flooding, as you can see from Isaac Levitan’s Spring Flood, which presents quite an austere view of spring, with the trees only just...
Birth of a drug
Science, Maths & Technology

Birth of a drug

...out that, in the development of any drug, there are a number of criteria that must be satisfied. There must be a clinical need – a medical condition or disease that requires effective treatment. Secondly, there has to be a commercial opportunity; because drug development is so expensive, pharmaceutical companies are less likely to invest resources in developing new...
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