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Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...write two or three sentences that compare (a) the Malayan sun-bear with other bears and (b) the tamandua with other anteaters. Use the LoM index to find helpful information. Video 2 Answer Distinctive features in these tree dwellers are not numerous! (a) The Malayan sun-bear has the strong forearms (and claws) of bears in general. But sun-bears are comparatively small, as...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Supporting physical development in early childhood
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting physical development in early childhood

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Course image: IPGGutenbergUKLtd/iStock/Getty Images Video 1: The Open...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Motivation and factors affecting motivation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Motivation and factors affecting motivation

...write down everything that he did wrong. He was always trying to improve, always trying to be a better player, be a faster player, do something more technical. He was just really, really driven and focused. And he'd stay behind after training, as well, which a lot of players don't do. So he'd stay another hour, two hours to focus on whatever he wasn't doing correctly just...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision

...writing in saying, ‘Why isn’t this put on at prime time, why is it tucked away at some really late time?’ And from public talks I give, people want to know about what’s happening in the world, so it’s only my personal ideas, but I think people really are interested in environmental issues. Has natural history broadcasting fully covered the global decline in...
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Video 20 mins
Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...writes very full stage directions, which in this extract take up almost as much space as the dialogue. Activity 4 What do you think is the significance of these directions? Discussion In the first place the directions tell us about the movement of characters on and off the stage. We learn that three characters who have been onstage now leave, while the Nurse brings the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...writing, nobody has claimed responsibility, nor has anyone been arrested for spreading the malware. One suspect is the Shadow Brokers group, as they were alleged to have stolen the hacking tool from the NSA. Moty Cristal, a professional negotiator, believed that the attackers did it not for money but to make a point, which was to show the group’s strength and remind...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
An introduction to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to software development

...writing in the early 1980s, defined engineering as ‘the practice of organising the design and construction of any artifice which transforms the physical world around us to meet some recognised need’ (Rogers, 1983). Rogers was not a software developer, but an engineer specialising in thermodynamics and jet-engine development. Yet his definition captures the essence of...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...writings, Schmitt has discouraged readings of this distinction that stress annihilation as the inevitable telos of such an antagonism, but affirmed the need to think the ‘enemy’ as that which binds any one sphere of the political as an ethico-political space. Schmitt’s desire for distinction is alive in contemporary legal orthodoxy. The prosecution of piracy as a...
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Article 15 mins