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Food origins
History & The Arts

Food origins

...of the food on your table with our interactive...Worcestershire Sauce has very little to do with Worcestershire – so what is Britain's great culinary gift to the globe? And did Marco Polo really bring pasta to Italy? Drag the food to the country you think it comes from – when you're right, you'll be rewarded with some background information, and the next challenge!...
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Activity 10 mins
Spark it up!
Science, Maths & Technology

Spark it up!

...NOTE: This interactive was originally created for the broadcast of Shock & Awe: The Story of Electricity in 2011, therefore some of the data may not be up to date. [Spark it up launcher ] Launch Spark it Up Click the image above to launch the Spark it Up game. Take your learning further with our Engineering the future course. Try this free taster on superconductivity....
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Activity 5 mins
Type 2 diabetes across the globe: What's going on?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Type 2 diabetes across the globe: What's going on?

...interactive screen] Select the image above to get the low-down on the type 2 diabetes situation around the world. Instructions For best results, use a modern web browser. Upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer or try a free alternative like Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari. The page may take a few moments to load. Try a free course or podcast on diabetes Take...
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Activity 20 mins
Podcast Art Gallery: A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast
OpenLearn Ireland

Podcast Art Gallery: A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast

...interactive digital gallery showcases the artwork submitted by final year illustration students from Ulster University who entered a competition to design the cover art for our Good Friday Agreement Podcast...Congratulations to our winner, Conor Doran - and to all the artists who participated! Click through the images to see all submissions. Hover over the images for...
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Article 5 mins
What do you really know about autism?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do you really know about autism?

...interactive quiz to test your knowledge...[Illustrations from the autism quiz] Select the image to begin... Our badged course To learn more about autism, its history of diagnosis, and contemporary cross-cultural issues, consider taking our badged open course, Understanding autism. The course comprises approximately 24 hours of study. A brief overview If you're looking for...
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Activity 5 mins
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...interactions between police officers and ‘suspects’; at the meso-level, they may investigate how organisations make social order – looking at police culture, for example; and at the macro-level, they investigate why some things are turned into crimes; or why some sorts of behaviour (or people) become a problem at a specific place and time. But the starting points...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Demolishing Pasts, Uncertain Futures:The Symbolism of Glasgow’s Red Road Flats
Society, Politics & Law

Demolishing Pasts, Uncertain Futures:The Symbolism of Glasgow’s Red Road Flats

...social housing) illustration] On Sunday October 11 2015, the demolition of the Red Road high-rise housing blocks in Glasgow featured on Scottish and UK television news programmes that evening. Mostly this was due to the fact that the demolition was not entirely successful – with two of the blocks left partially standing, and are now set to be demolished using different...
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Article 15 mins
Ordinary dying and the Queen: Reflections on a case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ordinary dying and the Queen: Reflections on a case study

...Social Care courses. This article is reproduced with kind permission of Marie Curie. Shortly after Queen Elizabeth II died in early September, renowned palliative care consultant, Dr Kathryn Mannix outlined on Twitter how the Queen’s death might be an example of ‘ordinary dying’. Others both on social media and in the BMJ opinions section agreed: the Queen’s death...
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Article 5 mins