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What happens to our brains when we're afraid - and can that help us overcome fear?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to our brains when we're afraid - and can that help us overcome fear?

...money - every time we picked up these features of the memory“. The team repeated the procedure over three days. Volunteers were told that the monetary reward they earned depended on their brain activity, but they didn’t know how. By continuously connecting subtle patterns of brain activity linked to the electric shock with a small reward, the scientists hoped to...
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Knife crime is a health risk for young people – it can’t be solved by policing alone
Education & Development

Knife crime is a health risk for young people – it can’t be solved by policing alone

...money of the project. Later initiatives appeared to pull funding from the programme while placing more emphasis on law enforcement and drug offences and even less on measures for early intervention and prevention. Life on the road The government made the fatal error of assuming that all violence and crime among young people in cities is caused by gangs. But the evidence...
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Post-Brexit: we need a new vision for Europe
Nature & Environment

Post-Brexit: we need a new vision for Europe

...business lobby groups while putting the public interest at risk. It’s no surprise that people are rebelling against the politics of the elite. But this rebellion is too often dangerously off-target. In times of insecurity and societal atrophy, lashing out at a scapegoat – whether that’s a migrant or a complex political institution – is an easy distraction. It’s...
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Working for health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Working for health

...business’. This album will provide you with insight into the debates that surround human health, and will enable you to appreciate and review your own and alternative standpoints and values in this important area of study. This material forms part of The Open University course K203 Working for health... Working for health A short introduction to this album. Radical...
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Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST) Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST)

...money to the account details in the business invoice. A few weeks later, Alice receives an angry email from Bob because he has not been paid. After a bank investigation she finds out that she had transferred the money to Eve by mistake – so what went wrong? It’s clear that the business invoice and the associated signature did not come from Bob, instead the signed...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Selling Empire: Posters
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Posters

...Busy Factories (many EMB posters were produced and displayed in sets of five) were starkly modernist and partly abstracted. His work is sometimes described as having elements of Cubism and Futurism. [EMB poster Motor Manufacturing] 'Motor Manufacturing', by Clive Gardiner, from the 'Empire Buying Makes Busy Factories' series of posters; 60 x 40 ins, displayed September...
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Introducing ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing ageing

...busy after I have retired. I worry about getting dementia and having strangers coming in to my home to help me. Reflecting on your own experiences of ageing is an important part of the academic study of ageing and later life because it affects the ways you approach the topic. Most people do not feel completely neutral about the topic of ageing. It is often difficult for...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
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Money & Business

Effective communication in the workplace

...businesses other than we help them make more money. One of the challenges, therefore, is to convey something which is enticing so the person I'm engaging with is fascinated to want to learn more. Because the goal is not actually to sell a product or service there in the elevator, it is just to entice them in. JAMES FROWEN Interestingly, I started writing that elevator...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs