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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
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...writing. The careful selection of artists even from far-flung locations, and the preference for one practitioner above another, shows that patrons too were quite capable of discriminating on the basis of artistic prowess. Abbot Suger (c.1081–1151) explained that the twelfth-century windows at Saint-Denis in Paris, for example, were done ‘by the exquisite hands of many...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Approaches to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

Approaches to software development

...write in Java are translated into bytecode, which you do not see. You might think that, because it is ‘invisible’, software is inherently more difficult to develop than a physical artefact. However, various techniques can be used to model software and its behaviour – just as an industrial designer uses geometric abstractions and other tools to model a physical...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...writing, mathematics, printing, medicine, electricity, flight and computing are all aspects of far-reaching innovations in human history. With regard to organisations, even the briefest of internet searches on innovation should reveal that there are many thousands of management videos, gurus, books and journal articles exploring and exhorting innovation and how...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging

...write, they will certainly find it hard to take part on equal terms with people who can – in competing for a job, for example. Activity 2 A learning disability friendly society? Timing: Allow about 5 minutes Click the link below to answer the poll on what you consider important in order for a society to be friendlier to people with a learning disability. Link: A...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Studying mammals: The opportunists
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The opportunists

...writes 'Specialism is a high-wire act - spectacular when it is successful but catastrophic if there is one small failure' [p. 158]. One has to ask, therefore, why one species in an apparently successful family of omnivores turned so emphatically to such an extreme form of dietary specialisation and adaptation that it is now on the verge of extinction. The answer must be...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Meiosis and mitosis
Science, Maths & Technology

Meiosis and mitosis

...write the allele with the capital letter first, so the genotype of all the F1 offspring would be written as Gg. Notice that not only do all the F1 offspring have the same genotype, Gg, but that this genotype is different from that of either parent. Where the two copies of a gene are different, as in the offspring of this cross, they are said to be heterozygous (pronounced...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introducing technology and innovation management
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing technology and innovation management

...writing letters to each other. Mail order shopping and writing letters were made possible by innovations that were groundbreaking in their day. Compare the impact of the introduction of running water, electric lighting and indoor plumbing with some more recent innovations. As Chakrabortty (2012) comments, ‘You might love your iPhone, and I might spend too much time on...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs