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What Human Rights Day means to me
Society, Politics & Law

What Human Rights Day means to me

...change their nationality. Having done well in school, my late father organised a trip to a border town to celebrate my achievements. The trip was cut short when we saw remains of a dead person floating in Akagera River. Closer to home, human rights are defined as, the basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world, from birth until death. They apply...
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Five surprising facts about sex and the pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Five surprising facts about sex and the pandemic

...Changes in sexual frequency Research carried out by the Natsal (National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles) COVID team1 found that in the four months following the UK’s first lockdown in March 2020 around half of the people in Britain perceived no change in how often they had partnered sex. However, this wasn’t the case for everyone and largely depends on the...
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Think you’re better at driving than most? How psychological biases are keeping our roads unsafe
Health, Sports & Psychology

Think you’re better at driving than most? How psychological biases are keeping our roads unsafe

...change driver behaviour...You never have to look hard to find recent reports of fatal vehicle crashes on UK roads. After devastating events such as a crash in West Yorkshire in July 2024, where four adults and two children were killed, media reports often focus on the need for better law enforcement and driver education. Safety campaigns can only work if people think the...
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Article 5 mins
Predicting Volcanoes
Science, Maths & Technology

Predicting Volcanoes

...changes in gravity above Poás, and Hazel talks us through some experiments she will be undertaking in the future... Predicting Volcanoes The Open University's researcher in volcanoes, Hazel Rymer explains why the Poás volcano in Costa Rica is her favourite, and how evidence form previous experiments there has lead her to believe there may be an environmental crisis -...
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Understanding society: families
Education & Development

Understanding society: families

...changing in many ways. This course looks at the change, or lack of change, in the role of women and men in the home. The discussion of this topic will focus on the connectedness between women’s work in the paid labour force and their work in the home. In addition, underlying this will be our recognition that family life today is characterised by diversity. The main...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Harry Potter and the Translator’s Challenge
Languages

Harry Potter and the Translator’s Challenge

...changed in the translation. The Harry Potter series provides a lot of variations that can keep the reader amused as they compare the translations with the original. It’s well-known that the US title of the first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, was changed to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s stone for the US market. But that, together with US spelling,...
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Article 15 mins
I had cancer - now stop supporting just me
Health, Sports & Psychology

I had cancer - now stop supporting just me

...changes for other young people facing the disease in the future...Find out about The Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. What’s it like to be a teenager with cancer? What changes? Does anything change? We’ve all had questions about cancer. It’s scary. And unfamiliar to most. When did you get cancer? I was sixteen. It was my sixth and...
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Article 5 mins
How do we move towards racial equality?
Education & Development

How do we move towards racial equality?

...changes they would like to see to move towards racial equality in this collection of videos...At The Open University (OU) we are conscious of the need to talk about race, to recognise the challenges some colleagues face as well as creating opportunities for students to hear about perspectives on race. For this reason, we have created a suite of videos where colleagues...
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Video 30 mins