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Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...write to him in a letter that ‘There is none of your opinions that my soul, gentle and tender as it is, shrinks from as much as that murderous and cutthroat view you maintain in the Discourse, that deprives the brutes of all life and sense’ (quoted by Wilson 1999, p. 495). As we shall see, it is not quite right to say that Descartes denied life to animals; that he...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Getting started on classical Latin
History & The Arts

Getting started on classical Latin

...writing out the Latin words and/or saying them aloud; thinking of English words which are derived from, and therefore similar to, the Latin words you have learnt; using flash cards; getting a friend to test you; recording vocabulary items and listening back to them; or a combination of these strategies. If you can set up the habit of learning just a few words each day,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...write separate notes for each video, but bear in mind that Videos 3, 4, 5 and 6 include contributions from two locations, such as Australia and Chile in Video 4. There’s a strong chance that you could feel the need to jot down everything you hear and notice on the first viewing; there’s a lot to take in! The suggestion is that you just watch and listen to the video on...
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Article 5 hrs
Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision

...writing scripts in which we were using CGIs, and I was bringing fossils to life with skeletons coming off, and that sequence made it perfectly clear that there was something funny going on technically that enabled you to allow a skeleton, bones to come off a slab of rock and hop about, but you didn’t have to do that every time, and so eventually you got a situation...
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Video 40 mins
Social construction and social constructionism
Society, Politics & Law

Social construction and social constructionism

...write it down or where something very similar is written in the course guide, that you have it next to you and I think in Book 1, it'll be easier to go through it and to see with the particular case studies that are used there on disability of issues to do with race and ethnicity and on sexuality, to actually very systematically see how one can go through those stages. As...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...write-off requests in the first two months of the 2005/06 financial year. Dawn Primarolo, the paymaster general, who provided the answers, admitted last month that the system needed to become more sensitive to the needs of low-income families. David Varney, chairman of Revenue and Customs, admitted that the tax credit structure may need to be overhauled if problems...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Internet of everything
Digital & Computing

Internet of everything

...writing, you could find an intelligent oven, air quality monitors and home security options. Which of these things would you personally consider to be helpful? In this session you will learn about: how people are connected what data can be used for the IoE how the correct processes can be used to enable the IoE which things are useful things in the current IoE...Session...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...writing in 1862, John Tyndall (Figure 6) described the key to our modern understanding of why the Earth's surface is so much warmer than the effective radiating temperature. Tyndall's careful experimental work had established what others only suspected: expressed in modern scientific terms, certain atmospheric gases absorb infrared radiation with wavelengths in the range...
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Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs