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Mental Health: Lennox Castle
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental Health: Lennox Castle

...based care and resulting issues of choice and integration. Lennox Castle - a guided tour Former nurse Howard Mitchell takes a trip around around Lennox Castle, once Britain's largest mental deficiency hospital. Evidence from the Archives Oral historian Howard Mitchell explores archives which document patients' case notes, their misconducts and attempted escapes. Reporting...
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Language and creativity
Languages

Language and creativity

...de La Hyre, The Allegorical Figure of Grammar, 1650 Discussion Figure 5 is different again in terms of the way in which language is used. Language is a feature of this painting in two specific ways. On the one hand, the picture includes a limited amount of text on the scroll draped over the woman’s arm. On the other hand, though, language – or at least a particular...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...based script in fixed, consistent ways. Such encounters are de-personalised and bureaucratised versions of the social-disciplinary rationale that underpinned the workhouse regime. This reading accords with some ‘orthodox’ Marxist analyses of how the state exercises power through institutions. Few now claim that officials slavishly serve ‘the state’, and there is...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Has Donald Trump's strike on Syria rewritten international law?
Society, Politics & Law

Has Donald Trump's strike on Syria rewritten international law?

...base on April 7 was the first action of the new Donald Trump’s administration to attract widespread support, garnering positive responses even from critics. [The Conversation] From a legal standpoint, this is all the more surprising since the attack was technically an act of aggression against a foreign country and a clear violation of international law. But the...
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Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins

...based on his experience as a schoolteacher in his hometown. His descriptions of poverty, fascism, and corruption in the Church and town hall were based on real events and became dominant themes in his later writing. Education informed their respective interrogations of wider cultures. Williams’s writing on culture was influenced by the students in his extra mural...
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Article 10 mins
Beaghmore Stone Circle
OpenLearn Ireland

Beaghmore Stone Circle

...base of the hedgerows. We’ve got to stop doing that, because in a way a hedge represents the edge of a wood. These are the oasis for not just the birds but the butterflies. Probably many species of insects maybe were depleted or lost at the time when the planters were taking out much of the scrubland. These are their last oasis. These are the only places for them to go....
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What do we need to know about our memory?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we need to know about our memory?

...based on being self-critical (as that makes remembering things feel harder). Regular exercise, especially when also being outdoors brings immense benefits that have an impact on the direct as well as indirect causes of declining memory.Regular exercise, especially when also being outdoors brings immense benefits that have an impact on the direct as well as indirect causes...
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Article 15 mins
The Open University's Carbon Calculator
Nature & Environment

The Open University's Carbon Calculator

...based carbon footprint of a UK inhabitant (if you live outside the UK, see further resources). This calculator starts with all the greenhouse gases emitted in supplying what the UK consumes, including the emissions embedded in imports. It then divides this total by the UK population to give the average annual emissions per person. Video: Peter Harper on The OU's Carbon...
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