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Herodotus 'The Histories': a timeline
History & The Arts

Herodotus 'The Histories': a timeline

...system for recording dates. See, for example, Thucydides, 'The Peloponnesian War', Book 2, Ch. 2: “The 30 years' truce which was entered into after the conquest of Euboea lasted 14 years. In the 15th, the 48th year of the priestess-ship of Chrysis at Argos, in the Ephorate of Aenesias at Sparta, in the last month but two of the Archonship of Pythodorus at Athens, and...
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Activity 5 mins
Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...system, and there is a range of positions between these two points of view. There is increasing recognition that other people can be a useful resource when an individual is affected by mental ill health; this resource, made up of personal contacts, is sometimes referred to as ‘social capital’ (Webber et al., 2014). Similarly, practice can vary between different types...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Getting started with SPSS
Society, Politics & Law

Getting started with SPSS

...think about how SPSS works and how to carry out some basic statistical work. All the required work for this course takes place within each activity – nothing is downloaded onto your computer. Please note that the software package SPSS is not provided with this course. The course is designed as a series of activities that can be used to help you familiarise yourself with...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Understanding economic inequality
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding economic inequality

...think of another sector inside an economy which might be included in the circular flow diagram to make this a more realistic model of the economy? What additional flows would this new sector generate? Answer To make our model of the economy more realistic a government sector could be included. Like households, the government spends money on goods and services. This...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision

...think has always sort of stood me in good stead and perhaps even inspired my career choice. He said, ‘You do this by the combination of a pair of binoculars, tweezers and a jam jar. And what you do is you look at the elephant through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars, you pick them up with tweezers and you put them in a jam jar.’ And I’ve always thought that...
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Video 30 mins
Can comedy change your life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can comedy change your life?

...think and even how we act...Find out more about The Open University's Psychology courses Maeve Higgins once set herself a task. The Irish-born comedian wanted to see what life would be like if she stopped laughing at things that weren’t funny. Turns out it wasn’t as easy as she thought. “It was so effing hard,” she says. “Laughter is a lubricant and is expected,...
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Article 10 mins
El Niño and war drive aid agencies to the brink
Nature & Environment

El Niño and war drive aid agencies to the brink

...system, designed to save those at risk of dying because of human or natural disasters, faces unprecedented demands in 2016 from levels of strain it has never before had to face, a leading development agency says. With more than 10 million people in a single African country expected to need international help next year, Oxfam says the effects of a super El Niño will...
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Article 10 mins
Introducing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...think about taking other courses...Introduction and guidance: How to get a badge - Getting a badge is straightforward! Here’s what you have to do: read each week of the course score 50% or more in the two badge quizzes in Week 4 and Week 8. For all the quizzes, you can have three attempts at most of the questions (for true or false type questions you usually only get...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs