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Leadership challenges in turbulent times
Money & Business

Leadership challenges in turbulent times

...human history. And more will come. In this course, you will explore leadership in these turbulent times as the world continues to change in disruptive ways. Here, disruptive means a change to something new, which is not incremental or minor. For successful leadership in any domain – business, public sphere, civil society – you need to understand and adapt to the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...humanities...Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: read closely – analyse a passage from the play examine genre – what kind of play is Doctor Faustus? consider themes – what are the main themes or issues explored in the play? read historically – what are some of the connections between Doctor...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
The search for water on Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

The search for water on Mars

...human imagination for over a century. In this free course, The Search for Water on Mars, find out more about how scientists have found evidence for water in the red planet’s past and present, and what this might mean for the possibility of life beyond Earth...The possibility of water on Mars has captured human imagination for over a century. In this free course, The...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Methods in Motion: Clashing loyalties
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Clashing loyalties

...human vulnerabilities at moments of competing loyalties...[Members of the International Brigade in the British cookhouse at Albacete raise their fists in the Communist salute] Members of the International Brigade in the British cookhouse at Albacete raise their fists in the Communist salute Raymond Williams’s novel Loyalties tells the story of a generation of young...
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Article 5 mins
Other Moons
Science, Maths & Technology

Other Moons

...human landings on the Moon. Professor David A Rothery explains that we should not forget that there are moons in abundance, elsewhere in our Solar System...The innermost planets, Mercury and Venus, don’t have moons, but Mars has two. Go beyond Mars to the giant outer planets and the number of moons per planet skyrockets. Mars’ moons are small irregular-shaped bodies,...
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Article 5 mins
Radical alternatives to prison
Society, Politics & Law

Radical alternatives to prison

...human wrongdoing...Transcript Prisons have become a default form of warehousing some of the most troubled and troublesome people in our society. The welfare of some of those most in need is missed, neglected or ignored and it only becomes highlighted as a problem when these same people are imprisoned. A large number of the people we send to prison have grown up in care...
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Article 5 mins
The new politics of climate change
Nature & Environment

The new politics of climate change

...humanity will risk causing irreversible climate tipping points with catastrophic consequences to all life on earth including humans. With a cycle of national elections every five years it is difficult to see how the ‘normal’ parliamentary democracy could achieve urgent carbon neutrality. Consequently, as regards pressing time scales in climate change, the political...
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Article 10 mins
Halloween: What’s the devil got to do with it?
History & The Arts

Halloween: What’s the devil got to do with it?

...humans and cattle who have been “elf-shot”. That is, elves caused illnesses. Even after the conversion of northern Europe to Christianity, people offered sacrifices to elves to keep them away. Perhaps this was important at the start of winter, at Halloween or at what Irish traditions call Samhain which celebrates the start of winter with fires and feasts. For many...
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Article 10 mins