Science, Maths & Technology
How do planes take off?
They're massive, and heavy. And yet they fly in the air. City In The Sky gets to grips with the physics of flight.
Science, Maths & Technology
Scales in space and time
...physics, chemistry, biology and life-sciences, and Earth and environmental sciences. Across these multiple disciplines you will meet time scales that include ages, durations and rates, and size scales including distances in three dimensions, which underpin areas and volumes...Scale – dealing with the miniscule to the massive, over milliseconds to millennia – is...
History & The Arts
Grief and the body: mourning in ancient Rome
...physically violent mourning seen as a true manifestation of the mourners’ grief, or was the bodily expression a performance? ...Grief is a visceral experience, something that is felt deeply within the body, but grief is made apparent via the outer body. Two thousand years ago, the poet Virgil, in his great epic on the origins of Rome, imagined the immediate aftermath of...
Health, Sports & Psychology
The impact of walking and socialising through 5 Ways Café on people living with dementia and their carers: A volunteer’s perspective
...physical and mental health and wellbeing (see more OpenLearn related resources below). A crucial area for this study has been the 5 Ways Dementia Friendly Café in Milton Keynes. Running since 2019, the Café has been a useful place to assess the impact of walking on those affected by dementia, due to the Café’s inclusion of a guided walk. The Parks Trust and OU are...
Health, Sports & Psychology
How to make the most out of our visit to the Great Outdoors: walking with The Parks Trust and staying mindful
...physical activity, especially outdoors, can be seen as a potentially powerful intervention to enhance family carers’ health, reduce carers’ burden and use of care services. Physical activity is also reported to reduce anxiety and depression, both of which carers are also often reported to suffer from. To do this, The Parks Trust have worked with the Open University to...
Health, Sports & Psychology
Ageing Well Collection
...physical and mental performance and increase feelings of tiredness. Functions usually affected by dehydration include memory, attention, concentration and reaction time. These free resources look at the importance of hydration while ageing. Do you want to know if you’re taking in enough water for day-to-day wellbeing and your health in later life? Select the link below...
Science, Maths & Technology
Could Brexit allow the UK to drop the ban on cloning?
...physical and mental integrity”. The UK’s laws have to be in line with this – but only until Brexit. Fifteen years to the month since the death of Dolly the sheep in Edinburgh, it’s time to take this opportunity to reconsider the law. The relevant UK legislation is the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act (2008). Section three stipulates that it is a crime to...
Money & Business
Partnerships: working across boundaries
...physical and cultural divides? This album explores how the formation of a variety of partnerships, spanning public, private and voluntary sectors, has radically regenerated the City of Stoke-on-Trent in the UK, bringing major improvements for the city’s physical and social environments. A second case study features Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders), and...