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Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess

...business about dirt under fingernails and particularly got the little tiny bit about the possibility of dirt being on these lovely clean looking seats in the Wellcome there was a little frisson ran around the audience, what is it about this instinctual aversion to dirt? Amanda Vickery: Well I think some of it is instinctual but I also think it's it's intertwined with...
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Article 30 mins
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Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...business. So, it’s important to get to know lenders. There are banks and building societies, but also many others. And they’re all different. Let’s look at them in detail. The financial services industry is dominated by banks. They include the major ‘high street’ names, such as Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Santander. And...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...busy to recall the experience and so little conscious learning takes place. Of course, it's useful to carry out familiar activities ‘on auto pilot’ – without conscious attention. It's easy to miss out on important learning from unfamiliar activities too. I may become wrapped up in the activity itself or simply not notice the range and quality of the experience....
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...business in Kington, in Herefordshire. The Garth is a thirty-four-bed registered care home, but it also has attached to it the domiciliary side, so we go out into the local community and provide care for people in their own home, so this enables them to stay in their own homes, in their own properties. So my role is to manage that side of it, but I do when needed I can go...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing research in law and beyond
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing research in law and beyond

...business opportunity. He discussed it separately with two business acquaintances, both of whom expressed enthusiasm. One had money. The other had relevant expertise and a small company that might be used to nurture the venture, but also represented a threat. The young man was struggling to sort out how best to proceed; he had about six alternatives in his head but had not...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...business to be present at Butcher’s seminars. This attention was not reciprocated, possibly because Goode was an Anglo-Saxon and Ancient Norse expert, specialising in place-names. Gareth Butcher did not like dead languages, and was not proficient in living ones. He read his Foucault and Lacan in translation, like his Heraclitus and his Empedocles. Ormerod Goode...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?
Education & Development

Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?

...busy schedule of rampaging around and eating bread sticks wanes. He starts to grizzle and wriggle and claw at the EEG cap. These movements corrupt the brain activity data. “That’s the interesting challenge with infants,” says Smith. “They’re completely non-compliant to instructions.” What about the educational potential of devices? There are thousands of apps,...
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Introduction to critical criminology
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to critical criminology

...business chaos and the resultant pubic disorder. Such presentations of the complexities of social life in popular culture served to highlight and critique social discontent and unrest against institutions of power. In doing so, the stage became a platform for voicing the struggles of honest working ‘men’ against financial institutions that dictated economic policy....
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs