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A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?
OpenLearn Ireland

A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?

...work efficiently. The fattier the brain the healthier it is. Information from the brain travels at 268 miles per hour. When you learn you change the structure of your brain. Multi-tasking is impossible. The brain switches between tasks so quickly it appears as multi-tasking. The average person has over 6,000 thoughts per day. If these thoughts are consistently negative,...
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Article 5 mins
The life of Mama Elouise Edwards
History & The Arts

The life of Mama Elouise Edwards

...work in England and to study lithography. The following year Elouise came to join him bringing their young son. It was Beresford Junior’s third birthday when their ship docked at Plymouth. They then had a train journey to London. Elouise remembers it vividly: It was June when I arrived and it was freezing cold. I remember the panic I felt ... it was all so different ......
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Video 15 mins
'Keeping it Real': The Experiences of Black Youth beyond Criminal (In)Justice Statistics
Society, Politics & Law

'Keeping it Real': The Experiences of Black Youth beyond Criminal (In)Justice Statistics

...work practitioner to give us the real experiences of Black young people and the justice system...[handcuffs] Official government figures continually inform us that a disproportionate and increasing number of Black males, including those aged 18 and under, are being stopped and searched by the police and imprisoned. Unsurprisingly, prison population data as of 30 June 2013...
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Video 20 mins
Exploring how migration changes the places where we live
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring how migration changes the places where we live

...worked with the Migration Museum Project and Counterpoints Arts, through to civil society and local government in order to explore these issues. In doing this we can perhaps forge new ways of understanding the complex ways in which our cities are developing and the stories of identity and belonging which this creates. This OpenLearn resource examines the ways in which we...
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Article 15 mins
Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision

...work both in the UK and Europe. Her background is at the BBC and Red Bee Media, spending almost 10 years as a Creative, and then as acting Creative Head for CBeebies working across the BBC’s portfolio and commercial brands. She has created trailers and promotions for Deadly 60, Horrible Histories, Octonauts and beyond. She lives and breathes unique, creative ideas and...
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Video 30 mins
Exploring evidence-based policing
Money & Business

Exploring evidence-based policing

...work or outside. What sources of evidence did you draw on in making that decision? Are these among the four sources of ‘best available’ evidence identified? Did you critically appraise the evidence in the way described above? If you did, how did you go about this? If not, what is your judgement now of the quality of the evidence you used? Discussion As humans we can...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)
Money & Business

Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

...works with the EU bodies such as the EU Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship and the European Court of Human Rights. The ECI may prove, in time, to be a stimulus for active democratic participation in the EU. But there may be more to the question of participation than devices like the ECI can offer. In particular, there are multiple other ways in...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...works in a bit more detail. Questions Consider three questions. How are identities formed? How much control do we have in shaping our own identities? Are there particular uncertainties about identity in the contemporary UK? In order to begin answering these questions it is necessary to focus on more specific and manageable claims, that is areas of identity which might be...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs