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Can comedy change your life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can comedy change your life?

...energy. He’s in the heavily upholstered upstairs bar overlooking the stage of the Laugh Factory comedy club on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles. He’s about to host a weekly open mic night where aspiring comics perform three minutes of the best material they can muster. It doesn’t matter that most of them will be rubbish (he’s seen it all in the 30 years he’s run...
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Article 10 mins
Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...energy-saving measures in support of the environment. Social consumption is highest among pensioners. Neighbourhood participation is more closely related to age, increasing noticeably among people aged 50 and above. Differences in participation relating to ethnicity are small. English respondents tend to have the lowest neighbouring scores. Welsh respondents average the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...energy going in’ over ‘energy that is expended’ in their body, and this is the position which is highlighted in policy documents, for example, by the Department of Health: Overweight and obesity are a direct consequence of eating and drinking more calories and using up too few. We need to be honest with ourselves and recognise that we need to make some changes to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision

...Solar panels is a gadget, so that can help or efficiency can help, all these little things build up which is wonderful. So a lot of it is education, but then education of the masses is fighting against the corporate big cheeses essentially, so big companies that rely on fossil fuels, the reality is that they are very much about the bottom line. They are not going to be...
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Video 30 mins
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...energy, maintenance, repair and replacement) and, ultimately, decommissioning costs are included. Requirements Generally speaking, a requirement identifies an expression of need, demand or obligation. An essential factor to ensure the quality of any project or any deliverable or product is to get the requirements for it right. If the requirements are not clearly and...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
MSE’s Academy of Money Badge icon
Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...energy prices and exacerbated by the rising cost of other essentials has made it even more important to take a tight grip of your personal finances. This course will enable you do that. Transcript Enrolling on the course will give you the opportunity to earn an Open University digital badge – this, together with the OpenLearn statement of participation, constitute the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...energy start to slip. As you will have noticed from the six aspects of the definition, leadership is not a solitary pursuit, but involves people supporting one another to generate the agency to lead. This activity will begin to explore that process. Activity 1 The agency to lead Timing: Allow around 15 minutes Watch the following interview clip with Jason Sinclair, where...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Citizen science and global biodiversity Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and global biodiversity

...energy transfer and the cycling of components constitute the ecosystem. Activity 1 Energy sources Timing: Allow about 5 minutes What sources of energy would be available to plants and animals in a small ecosystem such as a small wood? Suggest two examples for each. Answer For plants, the most obvious sources of energy are sunlight and nutrients from the soil. For animals,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs