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Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...writing in 1633, described him as ‘the best of poets in that age’ (Cheney, 2004, p. 3). Given such spectacular biographical material, it's not surprising that Marlowe the man has always been as famous as Marlowe the writer. Moreover, the correlations between the work and the life (both the facts and the gossip) are undeniably striking: all of Marlowe's dramatic...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Studying mammals: A winning design
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: A winning design

...write down an answer to the question, in note form at least, and then compare it with the one given. Mammals come in a bewildering variety of shapes and sizes and yet all of the 4700 or so species have some characteristics in common. Indeed, it's the existence of these common features that justifies the inclusion of all such diverse types within the single taxonomic group...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Listening for form in popular music
History & The Arts

Listening for form in popular music

...write down the track time at the beginning of each verse (use the format 00:00), as well as a few words from the beginning of each verse. Discussion There are at least two ways to perceive the verses. One is to hear five verses, as shown in Table 2. Table 2 Five-verse model of ‘Midnight Special’ TRACK TIME LYRICS 00:21 Yonder come Miss Rosie ... 01:01 When you get up...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...writing in 1860, the impetus to research the Renaissance was a conviction of its status as ‘a civilisation which is the mother of our own’. 2 Contemporary historians, by contrast, are inclined to explore differences between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and our own times. 3 Not only is the map of the societies and cultures that produced Renaissance art...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
An introduction to design engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to design engineering

...writing a short paragraph stating what you think it is. Start the definition with ‘Design is...’ and use no more than 50 words. Don’t worry about getting it right; this is really about your own ideas and thinking at this stage of learning about design engineering...An introduction to design engineering: 2.2 Summary of Section 2 - In this first section you came...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The science of sperm
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of sperm

...writing with Hilary McQueen - gets to grips with the numbers behind the man's part of the reproductive system - sperm...Find out about The Open University's Biology courses and qualifications THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS FRANK DISCUSSION OF SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE SCIENCE [Sperm] Although I'm a biologist, I rarely think much about what the cloudy white stuff contains, but in...
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Article 15 mins
Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes
History & The Arts

Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes

...writing for Wonder Woman. However, turning to the movie, Wonder Woman actor Gal Gadot (who served two years as a sports trainer in the Israeli Defense Forces) has been blasted on social media already for being too slim, not busty, and not fit enough to play the part, but this should not be surprising given that women tend to be more heavily criticised on appearances. Not...
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Article 15 mins
Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences
Science, Maths & Technology

Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences

...writes this down like this: 1 + 2 + …+ n = ½ x n x (n+1) (Here n is bigger than or equal to 1) Let’s check if Gauss is right when n is 3. Is it true that 1 + 2 + 3 = ½ x 3 x 4? This is true, as 1 + 2 + 3 = 6 and ½ x 3 x 4 = 6. But working out if this formula holds for each and every number would be both dull and impossible, an enticing combination! We can prove...
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Article 10 mins