1,380 search results

Vegans: why they inspire fear and loathing among meat eaters
Health, Sports & Psychology

Vegans: why they inspire fear and loathing among meat eaters

...writing, editing and broadcasting.” Veganism here is reduced to a taste preference, or consumer disposition – just one dietary option among several – rather than an ethical imperative directed towards eliminating the human exploitation of other animals. In his initial response, Sitwell says his previous “good behaviour” is evidence that this recent episode is...
The Financial Five a Day Podcast Series
Money & Business

The Financial Five a Day Podcast Series

...writing, check out his website. Podcast 10: George and Martin What have we learned about improving our financial nutrition? George Callaghan and Martin Higginson from The Open University share their thoughts on the first season, picking out highlights and discussing which choices are likely to improve financial nutrition. Practical takeaways include the importance of...
Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer
Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...writing software for the program. Her programming skills led to her promotion to head of the Apollo Software Engineering Division, where she and her colleagues wrote and developed code for the guidance and control systems of the in-flight command and lunar modules of the Apollo missions (McMillan 2015; Spicer 2017). In the process, Hamilton and her team established the...
Free tech tools to help you study
Digital & Computing

Free tech tools to help you study

...write about it all!) and we can’t go into lots of detail like step-by-step instructions of how to set software up on your devices. What the articles will do though is give you a bit of an overview and point you in the right direction so you can start to experiment and investigate for yourselves. Everyone's needs and preferences are different, so it's worth taking some...
20 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Education & Development

20 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...writing to take the crown, but our most popular course by enrolments is Introduction to Bookkeeping and Accounting, with more than 157,000 enrolments. Who knew bookkeeping had such a fan club? 10. But child psychology takes the completion crown Our three most-enrolled courses are Introduction to Bookkeeping and Accounting, Understanding autism and Introduction to Child...
What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?
History & The Arts

What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?

...writing works in Chinese condemning the “religion of Fo” (fo is the Chinese word for Buddha). Early reports on the Buddhism of Thailand came from delegations sent to the court of Siam by Louis XIV, delegations that included Jesuit priests. The term “Buddhism” would not appear in English until the early nineteenth century. The Jesuits who wrote the reports and the...
The secret history of teenage bedrooms
Education & Development

The secret history of teenage bedrooms

...writes that it’s like a safe haven for him he really means it. But of course when you flip forward to the ‘70s Wilson had a bit of a notorious nervous breakdown where he spent a good 10 years, this is when he’s an adult mind you, but spent a good 10 years just in his room watching TV, eating junk food and snorting cocaine. So his own experiences in that song kind of...
Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...writing (Senechal et al., 2018). Reading for pleasure has myriad other benefits such as a wider vocabulary and general knowledge, an enriched imagination and more developed narrative writing. There is no question that the will to read influences the skill and vice versa. Hardly surprising, but it seems to have been enough, alongside concerted campaigning by literacy...