2,730 search results

Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...thinking specifically about the questions the second time around, or you can review the questions as you watch the video from the start. Choose whichever approach suits you best. ANDREW SOLOMON: 'I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading, till I felt that sense was breaking through and when they all were seated, a service, like a drum...
Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
The age of offence
Society, Politics & Law

The age of offence

...system of beliefs. By attacking your belief system, the person giving offence is also attacking your sense of identity. It’s this relationship with values and beliefs which turns offence culture into such a political issue. Arguments over offence are often arguments over social norms. Over what sort of behaviour, or what sorts of attitude, we feel should be acceptable...
Non-speaking autism, embodiment, neurodivergence and access to communication therapies and devices
Health, Sports & Psychology

Non-speaking autism, embodiment, neurodivergence and access to communication therapies and devices

...think-non-speaking autistic child placed in an inappropriate, noisy, visually overwhelming nursery intended to stimulate neurotypical children) with what an ideal environment could ideally be like for an autistic person. In this situation, society creates the disabling environment for the autistic person. Such circumstances will often increase the desire for an autistic...
What is a virus?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a virus?

...system responds. Although tiny, viruses are complex, diverse entities that have the capacity to infect hosts, replicate themselves and then spread to additional hosts. In addition, viruses can sometimes transfer between host species, or they can mutate and re-infect the original host species. What is a virus? Viruses are microscopic packages of genetic information (DNA or...
The Rosetta Mission
Science, Maths & Technology

The Rosetta Mission

Watch this video from The Royal Observatory Greenwich/The OU and find what Rosetta and Philae have achieved as well as the impact the mission has had on our knowledge of our very own solar system...The Rosetta Mission from Royal Observatory Greenwich on Vimeo. To find out more use the hashtag #ROGSchools Learn more about Rosetta, Philae and comets
Depression, mood and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Depression, mood and exercise

...think of doing, but it may be the one that it’s worth the most. Walking and other physical activity regularises the blood supply to all your vital organs and tissues, including the brain. Regular supply of oxygen and glucose to the brain and other organs is immensely important. ‘Regular’ is the key word here. Our brains consume about 20% of glucose and 20% of oxygen...
Chinese at the tip of your tongue: A glimpse of Chinese
Languages

Chinese at the tip of your tongue: A glimpse of Chinese

...systems to transcribe Chinese sounds into Roman alphabet. Pinyin was adopted as the official system in the People’s Republic of China in 1958. In Mandarin Chinese there are four tones. Each syllable has a definite tone and syllables with different tones mean different things. For example, the character chē, carries the first tone, whereas chĕ with the third tone means...
The geological record of environmental change
Science, Maths & Technology

The geological record of environmental change

...systems and wave dominated systems. Utah: Incision surfaces at Woodside Canyon Incision surfaces at Woodside canyon. Utah: An incised valley at Tuscher Canyon A look at an incised valley at Tuscher Valley. Focussing on erosion surfaces, sequence boundaries, incised valley fills and distributaries channels. Utah: Explaining incision valleys Explaining incision valleys....