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Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness

...adaptable, physically fit, obviously, good hand to eye coordination, stay cool and calm under pressure, and then in rugby have a controlled aggression. Alex: I think mental is ten, just as important as the physical. Ashley: I think it’s half-half really because if you don’t have like the mental side to it then you’re not really going to go far, you’ve got to have...
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What is Planetary Protection?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is Planetary Protection?

...adapted to minimise contamination events, and how the space environment itself might propagate or sterilise any biological life humans might invertedly deliver. [A cartoon of a human on Mars]Human exploration is an upcoming challenge for Planetary ProtectionShow descriptionAn artist’s impression of an astronaut, in a white space suit with a helmet, standing on a mound...
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Managing motherhood and sports participation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing motherhood and sports participation

...adapt and whether they will still be able to perform as well. Furthermore, in some cases women still have to negotiate cultural norms and gender ideology that promotes how women’s ‘true role’ is to have and care for children which can cause tension in the context of sporting participation. Research suggests that becoming a mother can actually help sports...
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Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited
OpenLearn Ireland

Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited

...adaptation of the 1930 Dashiell Hammett novel about Detective Sam Spade’s search for a jewel-encrusted falcon statuette) and Purple Noon (based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 psychological thriller The Talented Mr Ripley) had a significant impact on him. He frequently cited Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler as his favourite authors, but he also enjoyed the works of...
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Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology
Society, Politics & Law

Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology

...adapt behaviour by playing on ‘assets’ that people already value – assets may be existing beliefs, economic interest or simple convenience (e.g. putting fruit at eye level in self-service food outlets). The nudge concept is itself based on the somewhat contradictory idea of ‘libertarian paternalism’: people need help to live healthy lives (paternalism) but such...
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Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging

...adapted from Heslop et al., 2013) [Described image] Figure 7 Often it’s attention to the small things that can have a big impact on the quality of a person’s healthcare There is a long way to go before it is possible to be confident that people with learning disabilities are no longer disadvantaged in accessing high quality healthcare. But a start has been made – we...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...adapted extract from the Open University Masters-level course H817 Openness and innovation in elearning. The course operates an activity-based pedagogy, so within each week there will be activities to undertake. Many of these involve writing a blog post detailing your thoughts on a particular issue, and then Tweeting about your post to enable other learners to read...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?
History & The Arts

What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?

...et curieuses, thirty-four volumes of which appeared between 1702 and 1776. The Jesuit accounts of far-flung lands were widely read during the Enlightenment, serving, for example, as important sources for Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert’s seminalEncyclopédie. The contents of the letters were various, but the Jesuits’ mission being what it was, it is...
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