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Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...code. Two of the boxes in each line are shaded grey. The tick has been placed in one that is white. It’s highly possible that Charles has just saved someone’s life. Charles is an African giant pouched rat, a species endemic to sub-Saharan Africa. He’s also a pioneer, one of 30 of his species that live and work here in Morogoro, a few hundred kilometres west of...
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Article 5 mins
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...simple scale (Hickman, 2020). However, she cautions about using it too rigidly or in an overly clinical medicalised way. This is a shortened version of her scale. Mild Some feelings of upset, but not constant Reassured that others have the answers Little disruption in cognition/thinking Medium Feeling upset more frequently (e.g. weekly) and more strongly Fundamental...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...simple fact of being alive is something shared with plants, but we are looking for that which makes humans special. We must therefore set aside nutrition and growth, those activities that are simply for the purpose of living. Next, we could consider activities like perceiving and feeling, but these things too are shared with horses, oxen and most other animals. What...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Language and creativity
Languages

Language and creativity

...simple transmission of information, but a way of achieving things: building and maintaining relationships, and constructing identities and the world (the context) around us. It is also fundamentally interactive. Such an appreciation of the inextricability of language from its context of use gives us the second lens with which to view linguistic creativity: the contextual...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective
Society, Politics & Law

The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective

...simple physical reductionism emerge as both simplistic and unhelpful. The sense of personhood we possess is at least partly based on the feel we have of our own bodies, as much as in the symbols which define our unique social identity … if the body is not the person, then what is the person? The body image and self-image we develop is based on the sense of being...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Intermediate French: 14 July
Languages

Intermediate French: 14 July

...simples et courtes: écrivez entre vingt et cinquante mots par dialogue. Essayez d’utiliser: le nouveau vocabulaire que vous avez appris; le passé composé; des expressions exprimant l’intention; la forme interrogative; le pronom ‘on’. Deux amis ont regardé ensemble le défilé sur les Champs-Élysées: Le premier dit: ____________________ Le second répond:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Getting started with Spanish 3
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 3

...simple paper notebook (or whatever suits you best). It is important that you keep track of your learning, so that the key points are together in one place and easily accessible for reference and revision. This course includes a lot of audio activities, and it's important that you try to do them all. They will help you to attune your ear to Spanish, and ensure you keep...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Diagrams, charts and graphs
Science, Maths & Technology

Diagrams, charts and graphs

...simple calculations. For example, in 1991, the total number of households surveyed was 22.4 million, so the actual number of four-person households surveyed is found by calculating 16% of 22.4 million, which is 3584 000 households. (Because 22.4 million is a rounded figure, this number of households will not be exact.) Since each column in the table should include all the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs