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Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...simple as a psychological pick-me-up. Treatments such as cognitive therapy combined with medication can help address the symptoms of depression. Activity 1 Reflecting on common misconceptions Timing: Allow 10 minutes Reflect on the issues raised in this section. What are your own thoughts and views on each of these points? Can you offer further or alternative...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...simple standard of nature, in it’s [sic] most beautiful forms’, he nevertheless glimpsed in passing the potential of a less constrained approach to creativity. Similarly, the Enlightenment art critic, Denis Diderot, had distinguished between clay models and finished sculptures, the former being much closer to the initial moment of feeling and inspiration: The artist...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role

...simple linear relationship between physical activity and exercise and its benefits to mental health, i.e. taking part in physical activity makes you feel better. She describes a more complex relationship with a number of mediating factors that we need to consider, such as the type and context of the physical activity participated in. In terms of benefits of physical...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...simple generic sense. Whenever you come across this term, make sure you understand in what sense it is being used, especially if you encounter it in older literature, where it may be used quite differently. At the beginning of the course, Paul Wood presents the concept of ‘the collage, the montage or … the palimpsest’ as a metaphor for Venetian culture during this...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision

...simple minded and the people who were doing it weren’t really zoologists, they were just saying, ‘Oh look, there’s a rhinoceros!’ You know? There was no discussion of the evolution of the rhinoceros or anything about its biology; it was just, ‘There’s a rhino!’ and that was about the limit of it. So it was like bird spotting on a grand scale. The...
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Video 1 hr 40 mins
A tour of the cell
Science, Maths & Technology

A tour of the cell

...simple EM images...A tour of the cell: 1 Introducing the cell - Studies into the function and appearance of cells reveal the presence of great diversity, which is particularly striking among eukaryotic cells. Even very different types of eukaryotic cells, however, exhibit many common structures and functions. This mix of uniformity and diversity is also reflected in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...simple solutions to complex problems. So for example, you say America has a problem with illegal immigration. Let’s build a wall. You say that Britain has a series of difficulties. Let’s get out of the European union. These are big, broad brush strokes and because of their simplicity and their boldness they have natural appeal - the digital vectors that we now have...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...simple form of ‘language’. Dolphins can be trained to respond to commands and perform tricks – and they can develop and vary these routines and imitate each other’s behaviour. On the other hand, the large brain and the folding of the cerebral cortex may be simply a function of the size of these animals, or a consequence of the need to produce and process such...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs