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How COVID-19 challenges our notion of a good death
Health, Sports & Psychology

How COVID-19 challenges our notion of a good death

...Open University, explores why death from coronavirus is not the type of death we expect...The news of deaths related to COVID-19 both in the UK and globally is our current daily reality. You may even be reading them with your morning coffee and afternoon tea. This article is one of them. The current COVID-19 pandemic has brought death to the forefront, challenging...
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The Material World: On Chesil Beach (getting closer to Titan)
Science, Maths & Technology

The Material World: On Chesil Beach (getting closer to Titan)

...Open University just a few months before Huygens arrival at Titan. He had been given the task of preparing for the receipt of this precious signal (before we could even be sure that the probe would survive the perilous descent and landing). He collected a range of reference material signatures – including those of various sands, gravels, clays and some more exotic...
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7 accidental discoveries that look like April Fool's Day headlines but aren't
Science, Maths & Technology

7 accidental discoveries that look like April Fool's Day headlines but aren't

...about what you might accidentally discover about yourself? Many Open University students surprise themselves when they sign up for courses, discovering new skills and capabilities. Find out how you can make some accidental discoveries through life changing learning. Some of these images are general representations of the areas mentioned and not the areas themselves....
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Review: Bisexuality: Identities, Politics and Theories by Surya Monro
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Bisexuality: Identities, Politics and Theories by Surya Monro

...opens up a space for thinking about non-binary models of sexuality One of the great strengths of this book is that it does not homogenise bisexual experience through a Western lens; the aforementioned engagement with trans politics has been useful in achieving this heterogeneity. The experience of British bisexuals (predominantly white) is clearly differentiated from that...
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Why Study Philosophers?
History & The Arts

Why Study Philosophers?

...can debate the kinds of concerns that interested our six philosophers. It might be that you would not end up studying exactly our six (at The Open University you would read Wittgenstein, Marx and Rousseau, but not Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Arendt). However, the concerns are recognisably the same, and the motive to reflect on what we find important has not changed much....
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How afraid of death are we?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How afraid of death are we?

...open Pandora’s box. So what should we make of these new efforts to demystify death and dying through conversation? It is hard to say. Increasing death’s profile in our imaginations, private and public, might make us all more punitive and prejudiced, as the research found. But then perhaps we get these negative effects precisely because we are unaccustomed to thinking...
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The debate on the origins of the First World War
History & The Arts

The debate on the origins of the First World War

...Open University's History courses and qualifications How could the death of one man, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who was assassinated on 28 June 1914, lead to the deaths of millions in a war of unprecedented scale and ferocity? This is the question at the heart of the debate on the origins of the First World War. Finding the answer to this question has exercised historians...
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Why Russia is hoping for a good World Cup
Society, Politics & Law

Why Russia is hoping for a good World Cup

...open to host the world through these events. But the ongoing doping scandal around Russian sports continues to do damage. It culminated with a ban on Russia’s participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics under its own flag and had been preceded by the doping controversy surrounding Russia’s most internationally recognisable athlete and celebrity, Maria Sharapova. Her...
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