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Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness
Education & Development

Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness

...simple as being left- or right-handed. Many aspects of being a man, or being a woman, are influenced by social expectations, and children learn and internalise these as they grow up. Some people feel quite comfortable in their expected gender roles, while others feel comfortable in some aspects of their gender, but uncomfortable in others. Exactly what those gender roles...
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Article 10 mins
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?

...simple strategies to work on a happy, healthy brain. [High Angular Resolution Diffusion Image of human brain] Visualising the brain Use your hand to make a brain so you can visualise it. Place your thumb in the middle of your palm as shown in the left-hand side of the figure below. Where your thumb is is where the limbic region is, which is made up of the amygdala and the...
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Article 5 mins
Everyone Can Learn to Coach! Coaching with the OSCAR Model
Health, Sports & Psychology

Everyone Can Learn to Coach! Coaching with the OSCAR Model

...simple structure to keep the coaching process focused, structured and time effective...What skills and qualities are required to be a successful coach? Although coaching can seem like a specialism, requiring professional qualifications, it is within the reach of most people to grow their own ability towards developing others via coaching. The role of a coach is to...
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Article 10 mins
Music as therapy in nineteenth-century Scotland
History & The Arts

Music as therapy in nineteenth-century Scotland

...simple, and although they have the character of dance tunes, their irregular rhythm would make them rather tricky for dancing. The rest are probably intended for guitar, fitting with the scoring of the first song for accompaniment. The written records of the Crichton archive include references to guitar accompanying songs, but not to solo guitar playing. Again, however,...
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Article 5 mins
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...simple observation strategy (listed below as item 3) is further supported by an additional four aspects of medical and political infrastructure: political commitment with increased and sustained financing case detection through quality-assured bacteriology standardised treatment with supervision and patient support an effective drug supply and management system monitoring...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...simple – the phenomenal character of an experience is what it is like to have it. I shall also occasionally speak of an experience's ‘phenomenal properties’; this means the same...Introducing consciousness: 2.3 Some distinctions - I now want to distinguish consciousness, in the sense outlined above, from some related phenomena. This should help to clarify the...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Translation as a career
Languages

Translation as a career

...simple exercises. As well as keeping my metabolic rate up, if I’ve been concentrating very hard, I can move around, do the exercises, it just takes three minutes, and it refreshes me. I generally stop around five to cook supper, and then if I’m not up against a deadline, I’ll just do other stuff in the evening. If I’m up against a deadline, I’ll get back to work...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Two concepts of freedom
History & The Arts

Two concepts of freedom

...simple. In Berlin's case his activity as a historian and as a philosopher are intimately entwined. However, it is important to realise that philosophers don't primarily put forward empirical hypotheses: their main concerns are the analysis of concepts (such as Berlin engages in, in his examination of the nature of the two types of freedom); and the analysis of arguments.)...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs