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Entrepreneurial resilience or moving the goal posts?
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial resilience or moving the goal posts?

...resources I now have?" So, rather than judge themselves or their business as a failure, the effectuator opportunistically redefines their goals. Studies have shown that in practice most entrepreneurs will combine both planning and effectual approaches, but each individual is likely to have a preferred mode of operation (2). An effectual approach has been linked to...
OpenLearn choices for YASS students
Health, Sports & Psychology

OpenLearn choices for YASS students

...resources for your module, including your assessment questions, module forums, and tutorials. OpenLearn: This is the Open University’s free learning platform. OpenLearn is open to everyone and provides hundreds of free learning resources and short courses, many of which are based on Open University modules. It’s through the OpenLearn website that you will choose the...
The Science of Fear
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Science of Fear

...human. Together with cold sweats, the ceasing of anal sphincter control (yes, people do shit themselves with fear), and the erection of bodily hair by 'the muscles of fright' (minute, involuntary muscles, which run to each separate hair follicle) - we have lots of vestigial, or "leftover", fear responses from our prehistoric ancestors. The best example is that bristling...
Medicine in ancient Greece and Rome
Health, Sports & Psychology

Medicine in ancient Greece and Rome

...human anatomy. His first anatomical observations of humans were made during his time as a gladiators’ surgeon, where the gaping wounds resulting from combat provided windows into the internal structure of the human body. He also studied the bodies in roadside catacombs. After Galen’s death his ideas were simplified and became the basis of medicine up to the...
Management and the unconscious mind
Money & Business

Management and the unconscious mind

...human brain is an incredibly complex machine which constantly processes vast amounts of data many of us are oblivious to as we go about our lives, but can the information contained within the unconscious mind aid managers within the work place? In the following audio discussion Guy Claxton, a psychologist from the University of Bristol argues that the parts of the psyche...
Repatriation and returning remains
History & The Arts

Repatriation and returning remains

...of things: an introduction to material culture... Encountering a body Nigel Warburton discusses two different cases regarding the issue of consent when displaying human remains. Torres Strait remains The Natural History Museum in London gave back 138 ancestral remains to the Torres Strait islands. Objections to Repatriation Tiffany Jenkins argues against repatriation...
The insecurity of security
Society, Politics & Law

The insecurity of security

...checkpoints and walls that control movement of Palestinians between Israel and the West Bank is to prevent terrorists from entering Israeli cities. This podcast explores their affect on the daily lives of people, and the dilemma facing the women of Machsom Watch, as their actions, which make the process more humane, contradict their political opposition to its existence....
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Drifting continents and a stormy passage
Science, Maths & Technology

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Drifting continents and a stormy passage

...Human-induced warming of the water flowing through the passage today will undoubtedly have serious long-term future effects on our climate. To find out more about role of ACC on regulating climate and how OU researchers are investigating the onset of ACC and its impact on global climate, read the link below: Like oceans? Take it further Free resources: Our modules: Our...