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The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...de raip ‘s de spruidhlich catha. An robh an gille air an dream a mhab na h-Iudhaich ‘s na Comunnaich, no air an dream bu mhotha, dhiubh-san a threorakheadh bho thoiseach al gun deoin gu buaireadh agus bruaillean cuthaich gach blair air sgath uachdaran? Ge b'e a dheoin-san no a chas, a neoichiontas no mhiorun, cha do nochd e toileachadh ‘na bhas fo Dhruim...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...adults said they chose wine over other alcoholic drinks. This extra drinking helped push us to Peak Booze, but wine is also important because it’s mostly drunk at home. It’s one reason why the pub is no longer the sole focus of British drinking. “The popularization of wine represents one of the most significant developments in British drinking cultures over the last...
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Article 10 mins
Richard Brock - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Richard Brock - Earth in Vision

...adult. So then you start looking at what happened to this, it’s a detective story, why have these birds come up and then gone down? And of course they’re beautiful to look at. So you may need a scientist, you may need a fisherman, you certainly need someone in the house using plastic, so that’s just one example of trying to mix an interesting lot of ingredients that...
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Video 30 mins
EPQs: why give a presentation?
Education & Development

EPQs: why give a presentation?

...adults, it’s likely she would have been comfortable discussing quite difficult topics and using complex language. Thinking of them as knowledgeable means she would have been prepared for some interesting, and possibly tricky questions. Visualising them as interested in the future means she would have included some material on new developments in research, and thought...
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Article 5 mins
Inheritance of characters
Science, Maths & Technology

Inheritance of characters

...adult. The life cycle shown in Figure 4.1 depicts all of the stages that a human must go through from conception through birth to reach adulthood. One consequence of fertilization can be examined by following the behaviour of the sex chromosomes. We can do this by returning to Figure 4.1, the top part of which we considered earlier. Figure 4.2 is a mating diagram, which...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Microbes – friend or foe?
Nature & Environment

Microbes – friend or foe?

...adults are thought to carry it in their gut. It rarely causes disease unless the natural population of microbes in the gut has been disturbed, such as during the administering of antibiotics, which kill off many of the natural gut microbes. In this case, C. difficile can multiply uncontrollably and release its toxins causing toxic shock syndrome (TSS), with a range of...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Critically exploring psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Critically exploring psychology

...adults all chatting amongst each other] Figure 2 Social psychology considers how people interact with others At the centre of social psychological research is the interaction between the influence of wider social factors that shape how we understand the social world (i.e. group dynamics, situational pressures and so on), and the cognitive processes through which we...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury
Education & Development

‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury

...adult and psychotherapist, I can see how these situations contribute to post traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) where the nervous system remains prepared for attack in the hope of survival. This type of PTSD falls into the category of complex PTSD where trauma takes place in a variety of ways and is experienced over a long period of time, often commencing in early...
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Article 5 mins