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‘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

...system of the brain and stimulate chemical reactions in our body. They are essentially unconscious processes designed to promote survival in instances where circumstances are too critical to leave responses to conscious decision making. Examples of primary emotions are fear, anger, joy, disgust and surprise. Being key to existence, emotions are universal and part of our...
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Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...systems, environmental processes, humans and flora, fauna and other life forms are connected to each other, mixed up, and more-or-less co-dependent on each other. This suggests a world of things, relationships, and experiences made by connections, influences, exchanges and interdependencies between environmental processes, humans and non-humans. Such chains of relation,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
A tour of the cell
Science, Maths & Technology

A tour of the cell

...system of specialised protein assemblies that together form what is known as the cytoskeleton. Another term often used is cellular 'scaffolding' which is perhaps rather misleading, since the protein assemblies that make up the cytoskeleton are not fixed, but are highly dynamic and play an essential role in the transport of organelles and some molecules within the cell....
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...system may have sold a million, but it's a little passé now (Figure 1). [Figure 1] Figure 1 Another important instance where we know in advance that an innovation is required is where the existing technology is very mature, and has been incrementally developed as far as it is possible to take it, yet we have identified a need to improve the performance of the product...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...Systems of categorisation and taxonomy developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: for example, in the 1770s the German scientist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach sought to explain the diversity of humans by dividing them into ‘types’ or ‘species’ according to the design of their skulls (see Figure 2 above). This kind of early scientific categorisation would...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...system, in which children and young people aged 11 to 16 can ask a nurse questions through SMS text messages. A web-based management application allows teams of school nurses to reply; this is conducted anonymously and confidentially. Other initiatives have also been developed for use by children such as web-based initiatives to improve health and wellbeing. These...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The American Civil Rights Movement
History & The Arts

The American Civil Rights Movement

...systems of racial segregation and discrimination. This course discusses the key events in this campaign for social justice, drawing on a wide range of primary sources. In doing so, it assesses the achievements, shortcomings and revolutionary qualities of the civil rights movement...In this free course, The American Civil Rights Movement, you will learn about the mass...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...system installed. The five lorries are now uneconomic to run. Diesel and repair bills have become prohibitive, breakdowns and lost running hours are excessive. With more lorry capacity, better reliability and a faster service you could easily obtain more business. You decide to rebuild the depot with better equipment, full insulation, an effective sprinkler system and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs