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Geology toolkit: what rock is that?
Science, Maths & Technology

Geology toolkit: what rock is that?

You can use our interactive to help you identify an actual rock, or, if you don't have a sample, you can use one of our virtual rocks...Find out more about The Open University's Geology courses and qualifications
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Activity 10 mins
Maths skills for Science
Science, Maths & Technology

Maths skills for Science

Want to study science but worried you don't have the maths skills required for higher education? Fret not! We have a handy interactive guide to get you on track...[Maths for science gif] Select the image to begin your maths challenge.
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Activity 5 mins
Shopping for citizenship: A conversation at the Citizenshop
Society, Politics & Law

Shopping for citizenship: A conversation at the Citizenshop

...interactive installation, The Citizenshop, is also part of the ‘Who Are We?’ project at Tate Exchange. Agnes asked Nele what kinds of issues The Citizenshop was meant to highlight...[Can you buy what the Citizenshop sells?] What can you buy? For Nele, one of the key objectives was to highlight the little known practice of acquiring citizenship ‘by investment’....
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Video 10 mins
The biology of loving our pets
Science, Maths & Technology

The biology of loving our pets

...interacting with our pets. In fact, research has shown that individuals with PTSD had a big improvement in their symptoms when they started caring for a dog, partly due to an increase in oxytocin (combined with other psychosocial factors) (Brooks et al., 2018). Oxytocin is now being tested as a treatment for a range of mental health disorders, such as anxiety, depression,...
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Article 5 mins
If a pig gives you a new liver, do you give the pig rights?
History & The Arts

If a pig gives you a new liver, do you give the pig rights?

...social interaction, friendship and cooperation. If we wish to extend moral status to some population, for example to foetuses, we will probably pick a subset of these capacities to be able to include them. Or try some alternative way to demonstrate that the population meets similar criteria as healthy human adults. But what we’re left with is a mishmash of accounts of...
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Article 5 mins
‘Life’s good – it’s the disease that’s the problem’: supporting someone living with a terminal diagnosis
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Life’s good – it’s the disease that’s the problem’: supporting someone living with a terminal diagnosis

...Social Care courses and qualifications. ‘Life’s good – it’s the disease that’s the problem.’ These are the words my husband said a lot when he was battling MND. We also used to frequently say ‘Where there’s a will, there’s a way’. Indeed, during his illness we did everything we could to keep his spirits up after being told he had six months to two...
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Article 5 mins
Methods in Motion: Occupying spaces in Hong Kong and London
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Occupying spaces in Hong Kong and London

...interactions of which my fieldwork was a brief part. In London at the Occupy Democracy camp, my role was closer to that of an ‘activist researcher’. Initially I focused on the substantive content of the various speeches and debates that the protest enabled. However, by the morning of the second day, as Heritage Wardens supported by Police began circulating the fringes...
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Article 5 mins
Could you be a super linguist?
Languages

Could you be a super linguist?

Whether you are monolingual or speak more than one language, test your linguist skills with our short quiz and see how many languages you correctly identify...[Could you be a Super Linguist?] Select the image above to start the interactive
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Activity 15 mins