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Messaging apps – managing relationships at a distance
Languages

Messaging apps – managing relationships at a distance

...write, or message – we are always working to maintain an appropriate social distance between ourselves and the people we are interacting with. The distance at which we hold people depends on our relationship with them as well as our mood or priorities at the time. [two women on a swing, facing one another] Messaging apps challenge our need to keep people at an...
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The importance of alternative household arrangements
Society, Politics & Law

The importance of alternative household arrangements

...Writing about LGBT communities has frequently used the concept of 'families of choice' to refer to people who become close due to shared emotional and community (rather than biological) bonds. I personally prefer the term used by Armistead Maupin's wonderful character, Anna Madrigal. She referred to the group who rented rooms at her house in San Francisco as her 'logical...
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Literature and the Environment
Nature & Environment

Literature and the Environment

...writing. A flood provides the climax to George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860). The first paragraph of Margery Allingham’s crime novel The Tiger in the Smoke (1952) introduces the smog that hides the killer as he makes his murderous way around the city: ‘The fog was like a saffron blanket soaked in ice-water. It had hung over London all day and at last, was...
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I-SPY: Find out more about the research on Internet infidelity
Health, Sports & Psychology

I-SPY: Find out more about the research on Internet infidelity

...write in detail about their experiences with Internet infidelity. Unlike most prior research in the area, the study recruited people who had experienced Internet infidelity – either having engaged in it themselves or having found out that their partner had indulged. The findings showed that many participants think that the internet makes infidelity more likely....
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The story of infection
Health, Sports & Psychology

The story of infection

...symptoms but not the virus itself and at the time of writing, there is no vaccine for Covid-19. So in the battle between humanity and nature, nature seems to retain the upper hand. We need to work hard to keep up and continue to develop new ways of dealing with infectious agents because you can be sure there are more pathogens out there, waiting for their moment to come....
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Teaching Languages for long-term memory
Languages

Teaching Languages for long-term memory

...writing and speaking tasks...Why is memory so important? ‘Working memory’ refers to the very limited number of thoughts we can hold in our minds at once. Working memory is easily overloaded so instead we tend to rely on our memories. For example, drivers don’t have to think in detail about the process of driving; they learnt it and now they simply do it from memory....
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Using OpenLearn as an OU Student
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Using OpenLearn as an OU Student

...writing, avoiding plagiarism, using online forums or revision techniques can help you get ahead with your studies. OpenLearn has a large selection of study skills material, so that you can find just what you need. If you're thinking of changing jobs, moving sectors, starting a new career, or want to develop in your existing role, OpenLearn can help with that too. Our...
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Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology
History & The Arts

Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology

...G.E. (eds) Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, Berkeley: University of California Press. Tremlett, P.-F. (2020) Towards a New Theory of Religion and Social Change: Sovereignties and Disruptions, Bloomsbury: London. Williams, F. E. (1977) ‘The Vailala Madness’ and Other Essays. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii. More related free resources...
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