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The Ageing Well Public Talks
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Ageing Well Public Talks

...everyday lives to support healthier lives when this is needed. As a public health intervention, Ageing Well Public Talk Series has the potential to make an impact on health and social care economies via the expected reduction of preventable disease, and support the management of chronic as well as acute biomedical as well as psychosocial conditions via behaviour change....
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Article 15 mins
Earth Day on OpenLearn
Nature & Environment

Earth Day on OpenLearn

...everyday. Read more: Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts (Free course) Is your wash day polluting the ocean? (Article) Too much of a good thing? Choice challenges in sustainable clothes shopping (Article) Transport A huge contributor to carbon emissions worldwide, petrol cars equate to roughly 33% of C02 emissions in the United Kingdom alone (Source). Review...
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Article 5 mins
Young people making their own media
Education & Development

Young people making their own media

...everyday life as a gender-fluid young person. [Brendan Jordan posing with the words Drag Queen next to him - taken from YouTube. ] Many adults find the appeal and popularity of YouTube celebrities mystifying - as youth culture throughout history has always been. For instance, young female fans of the Beatles were seen as hysterical. But young people say they appreciate a...
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Article 10 mins
What can you do with leftover coffee grounds?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can you do with leftover coffee grounds?

...everyday. Maybe we shouldn't be throwing it all away...Many of us depend on coffee to fuel our early morning meetings, mid-afternoon slumps or all-night study sessions. These days, the words “coffee” and “fuel” are half-jokingly synonymous. More than 9m tonnes of the bean are produced annually around the world and, once we brew it, an awful lot of waste is...
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Article 5 mins
Autism quiz text
Health, Sports & Psychology

Autism quiz text

...everyday situations, and may not achieve what they are capable of for this reason. 13. People with autism always prefer being alone Is the answer TRUE, FALSE or DEBATABLE? Answer... FALSE People on the autism spectrum would often like to make friends and have the company of others, though they may also have difficulties in making this happen. Hopefully you’ve learnt...
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Article 5 mins
Race and place
History & The Arts

Race and place

...everyday interactions we interpret the clues which are given and given off and classify people accordingly. For many of us it is no longer possible to ‘read off’ identity from the same signals we might have used in the past. This poem represents a contemporary question about identity. In attempting to classify people according to where they come from we may be thrown,...
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Article 10 mins
The psychology of conspiracy theories
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of conspiracy theories

...everyday discourse too, ‘conspiracy theorists’ are often labelled ‘lunatics’, ‘kooks’ or ‘paranoiacs’, implying that they suffer from some intrinsic psychological deficiency or dysfunction. Yet, surprisingly, little psychological research has been conducted on this topic. In fact, it is only since the 1990s that social psychologists have turned their...
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What is Critical Race Theory?
Education & Development

What is Critical Race Theory?

...everyday reality in education, the health service, the criminal justice system and politics. CRT may provide avenues to interpret and understand how racism is operating in policing organisations and new ways to address and change structures and processes that perpetuate institutional and individual racism. References Bell, D. (1992) Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The...
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