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The search for water on Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

The search for water on Mars

...physical or chemical conditions. * Dissociate Dissociation is the process in which molecules of a substance separate or split, usually when a solvent. * Ecliptic The plane of the Earth's orbit about the Sun. Also the path of the Sun in the sky (on the celestial sphere) during the course of a year. * Electromagnetic radiation Energy in the form of waves that have both...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The formation of exoplanets
Science, Maths & Technology

The formation of exoplanets

...physical and orbital characteristics. This course explores the key astrophysical concepts involved in planet formation and how they can be used to explain the great diversity of configurations observed. Section 1 focuses on the birthplaces of planets: the protoplanetary discs. Section 2 describes the core-accretion scenario for planet formation. This was initially...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...physical-health conditions and therefore caution is needed when considering worldwide prevalence data for any condition. In children and adolescents, the majority of those diagnosed with ADHD are male, but in adults, both genders are diagnosed with equal frequency (Moffitt et al., 2015). Although the experience of ADHD in adults is extremely interesting, research is in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...Physics from Edinburgh. I knew I didn’t want to be a physicist when I grew up and one of my professor’s colleagues was setting up a new interdisciplinary group looking at energy down at the Cavendish Labs in Cambridge and offered me the chance to do a PhD there, so I grabbed it. And that’s where my interest started, a little bit on and off, but I’ve been looking...
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Exploring philosophy: faking nature
History & The Arts

Exploring philosophy: faking nature

...physical fabric of the building, the contents the furnishings, paintings, textiles have been rescued, largely certainly from the ground floor, where most of the historic contents shown to the public were. So when they made the decision to go back to the condition of the house on the day before the fire, they were doing that in order to recreate the right context for those...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Accessibility of eLearning
Education & Development

Accessibility of eLearning

...physical barriers are removed, or at least lowered, people are turning towards designing eLearning courses so that students with the widest range of abilities and social circumstances can participate successfully. These are the ideas that we are talking about when we use the term ‘accessibility’. Experience has shown us that it is better to consider accessibility at...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts

...physical quantity of cotton. This difference in measurement may also account for the variation in the results in terms of the most important countries. The difference in results from the two datasets highlights an important point which is that care should always be taken when using data to consider closely how the data is measured and reported. In the following sections...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...physical pain. The robots or ‘replicants’ in Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner can feel pain and start to develop emotions after building up a bank of life experiences – with disastrous results. Interestingly, however, these ‘replicants’ are made out of organic materials, they are biological robots, and are only distinguishable from humans by sophisticated tests....
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs