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Exploring immortality
History & The Arts

Exploring immortality

...de Grey, established the charity which focuses on the potential of cellular repair to extend lifespans indefinitely. De Grey has claimed provocatively that the first human to live to the age of 1,000 years has probably already been born. Meanwhile, Russian billionaire, Dmitry Itskov founded the ‘2045 Initiative’ in 2011, with the goal of achieving a...
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Fake news, filter bubbles and Facebook
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news, filter bubbles and Facebook

...adults now report getting news from the site – and the fact that fake news is not editorially weeded out, this means that misinformation can spread easily and quickly, hampering the chance people have for making informed decisions. Following the Trump victory there have been frequent calls for the company to address this issue. But much of the debate has had an element...
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Tales of Trump told in Trumpian tones: Michael Wolff's Fire And Fury
Society, Politics & Law

Tales of Trump told in Trumpian tones: Michael Wolff's Fire And Fury

...adults in the room’ – John Kelly, James Mattis, Rex Tillerson and H. R. McMaster – have certainly had roles to play in these decisions, but only the lattermost features in any detail in Fire and Fury, and only when Wolff is referring to Trump’s contempt of his ‘boring’ nature. Similarly (but perhaps expectedly), Mike Pence is almost nowhere to be seen. In sum,...
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How to make the best of your digital badge
Education & Development

How to make the best of your digital badge

...adults – to meet them where they are. With good search engine optimisation, and with a platform that openly indexes all its free resources, we are able to sit front and centre in internet searches around the topics we teach. Learning is flexible, self-paced and in multiple formats. It’s relevant, topical and for many of OpenLearn courses, it is rewarded with a digital...
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Chinese education: How do things work?
Society, Politics & Law

Chinese education: How do things work?

...adult education. Basic education comprises pre-school education, six years of primary schooling; three years of junior secondary schooling and then three years of senior secondary schooling. The numbers involved are huge: 192,000,000 children enrolled in over 400,000 primary and secondary schools with 10,000,000 teachers. Pre-school education is becoming increasingly...
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Time management and study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Time management and study

...Adult Learners Wales and the Open University Students’ Association. Much of the content in this article was incorporated using feedback from a survey of Welsh part-time and Higher Education students in 2020. Links are directly embedded throughout the article to take to other useful resources but in some cases information and advice has been sourced and repurposed from...
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The science of sleep
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of sleep

...adults it is most prevalent in the developing foetus, leading some to suggest that its dreams act as a cinema: the brain is kept active to stop it becoming bored, either during sleep or with the relative lack of external stimulation within the uterus. Try proving that one. Sleep inertia That's the scientific name for the grogginess felt after waking. One to five minutes...
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Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...adult relationships – is one of the most active areas of research in psychology...Attachment in the early years: 1.1 The needs of immature young - Human infants, and indeed the newborns of any mammal species, cannot survive alone. They need the feeding, attention, care and protection of more mature individuals to enable them to grow and develop. By definition, newborn...
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