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Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...bases, shafts and capitals. The critical thing are the shafts, they’re monoliths, those of the present building are 40 foot tall, they come from Egypt, they weigh 50 tonnes, there’s 16 of them: that’s extremely impressive in its own right. However, what we have to imagine is that they wanted 50-foot shafts, they would have weighed 100 tonnes each and they’re still...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...based on lithium aluminium silicate, LAS, which crystallises in hexagonal planes of atoms leading to a curious response to heat. Its expansion coefficient depends on direction within the crystal: +6.5 × 10−6 K−1 in the plane of the hexagon and −2.0 × 10−6 K−1 perpendicular to the hexagon. Yes – a negative coefficient of expansion. As the atoms spread...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...de Jules Ferry. Discours sur la politique extériure et coloniale, (1893–1898), p. 210–12 ‘[T]he superior races have a right vis-à-vis the inferior races [...] I repeat that the superior races have a right, because they have a duty towards them. They have the duty to civilise the inferior races [...] Can you deny, can anyone deny, that there is more justice, more...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Dr Jean-Francois Soussana - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Jean-Francois Soussana - Stories of Change

...based revolution in agricultural systems. So you can do a lot by better-managing your soils. RH: The French are quite partial to their meat, are you avoiding setting out guidelines on meat because it would be just too controversial, you don’t want to be involved with that level of controversy? JFS: I think it’s just a bit biased to focus on a single issue, when...
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How do I pitch an idea to a science editor?
Science, Maths & Technology

How do I pitch an idea to a science editor?

...based on the latest WHO report or following a change in leadership at the local health ministry is a much stronger pitch. Use various sources Include some information about who you are going to talk to, demonstrating a mix of independent sources and those involved in the story. Many editors like to see a minimum of two sources, at least one of them independent from the...
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What You Need to Know About Psychometrics
Health, Sports & Psychology

What You Need to Know About Psychometrics

...based interviews, such as asking candidates to give examples of how they use their personal traits in their work evidence that supports tests as being reliable indicators of future job performance providing additional information that corroborates other facts; for example, a candidate may present themselves as organised, and a personality test provides a high...
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Article 10 mins
The Plessey Factory Occupation, Bathgate, 1982
Society, Politics & Law

The Plessey Factory Occupation, Bathgate, 1982

...based in production assembly (for more, see McIvor, 2014). At the factory’s peak, 75 per cent of all workers were women working in assembly. [For Let / May Sell: An uncared-for building that was part of the Plessey Complex – now the Whiteside Industrial Estate. ] For Let / May Sell: An uncared-for building that was part of the Plessey Complex – now the Whiteside...
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Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary

...based on ‘The Legend of the Dead Mother, as told among the hills of Tyrone […] The tender mother and fond wife dies; the father in despair turns to drinking and neglects his little ones. The mother, still watching over her babies, comes back in the gloaming, again and again, to succour and fondle them’ (O’Leary 1887). Questions of gender Although Ellen O’Leary...
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