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Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...account for some cases of obesity involve the possibility that some of our ancestors might have had adaptive responses to nutritional shortages. One of the most interesting of these explanations is known as the 'thrifty phenotype’ hypothesis (Ozanne and Hales, 2002); it suggests that poor fetal nutrition leads to adaptive changes in physiology that prepare an adult for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...accounts for the egalitarian view often held of poetry – a view which doesn’t seem to apply in the same way to opera-singing or carpentry, for example. If you sing, does that make you an opera singer? Certainly if you nail together a few pieces of wood that doesn’t mean anyone would want to hire you to build their house. With poetry, as with any other craft, there...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...account of our inner lives, rather than to scientists? There is something in this. If we want descriptions of what consciousness is like – the subtle shades of perception, sensation, emotion and thought – then a reductive explanation is likely to leave us cold. This is true across the board. An account of how a phenomenon is constituted will not tell us much about how...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)
Money & Business

Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

...account. Perhaps the most visible version of this situation was indicated by the suffragettes or blacks. Being ‘excluded’ from civil, political, and social rights for much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, both suffragettes and black gained the rights that they didn’t have by claiming equality as well as difference. We may well remember that...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...accounts of cholera from his mother who had survived the Sligo epidemic. Worse was to come. the Irish famine of 1845-52 or The Great Hunger’ was a cataclysm in Irish history, leading to the death of over one million people and the emigration of up to 20% of the population. Stories spread of dark events - the dead unburied, cannibalism, and even corpses with mouths...
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Article 45 mins
Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...accounts. Answer The steam engine is clearly an iconic model. It is a different size from the original, but is the same shape and probably uses many of the same materials. A graphical model. The concept of a market, as used by advocates of ‘the free market’ is a mental model. However, some economists have also created mathematical models of markets, which they claim...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The caring manager in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The caring manager in health and social care

...accounts of how Angelique approached the situation to support Lakshmi. Activity 5 Finding a way forward Timing: Allow about 45 minutes Part A Listen to the following audio clip, where Angelique talks about how she thought of a possible way to help Lakshmi. Angelique I recognised that Lakshmi was struggling with her workload and that she didn’t seem to be as organised as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
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Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...account of the artwork, including its immediate effects, if you are asked to discuss that work in more detail. Activity 4 Recording the effects of some Turner Prize-related artworks Timing: Allow approximately 10 minutes Now take a careful look at these works of art (Plates 3, 5a, 5b, 6 and 7) in the Resource booklet. For the moment, you should ignore the titles of these...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs