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An introduction to crime and criminology
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to crime and criminology

...analysis of the political and economic structures of a given society. It might be said that everyone has a kind of ‘criminological imagination’. That is, whenever a crime story or other shocking or harmful event is featured in the news, people often immediately begin to imagine the circumstances that may have led to the event, how the victims and their families may...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...data to analysis, it would embrace in a single formula the movement of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the tiniest atom; for such an intellect nothing would be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes. (Laplace, 1814, p.4) Laplace’s all-comprehending intelligence is now famously known as ‘Laplace’s demon’. It is...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Play, learning and the brain
Education & Development

Play, learning and the brain

...data from CT scans, physical measurements and documentary sources they explored the brain development of a group of neglected children. As an example of what can happen in an extreme case of sensory deprivation, Perry and Pollard published the startling images shown below. [Figure 1] Figure 1 An example of the effect of sensory deprivation on the brain These images...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Marketing communications as a strategic function
Money & Business

Marketing communications as a strategic function

...data interchange (EDI) and the use of intranets are symptoms of this development in practice, as traditional distribution intermediaries are complemented, and in some cases replaced, by a new breed of ‘infomediaries’ connecting marketers to customers. Push and pull strategies are not mutually exclusive. For example, an advertising campaign directed solely at the end...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Birth of a drug
Science, Maths & Technology

Birth of a drug

...data reported to establish unambiguously the structures of the new compounds. In reading this paper you should not attempt to commit to memory the details of the syntheses described, nor should you let yourself become bogged down by some of the pharmacological terms. Instead, concentrate mainly on the chemistry. Note that norepinephrine is just the alternative name for...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator
Languages

Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator

...data didn’t prove terribly useful, partly because complex behaviours don’t tend to be controlled by individual brain areas. Now the emphasis has shifted to understanding how different areas interact. Neuroscientists have learned that when we consider a potential purchase, for example, a network of areas that includes the prefrontal cortex and insula helps us decide...
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Article 10 mins
Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...Analysis T. A. Brown (Blackwell Science (UK), 2001), ISBN: 063205901X The Human Cloning Debate 2nd Edition Glenn McGee (Berkeley Hills Books, 2000), ISBN: 1893163121 The Ethics of Human Cloning Leon Kass, Leon R. Kass and James Q. Wilson (American Enterprise Institute Press), ISBN: 0844740500 Department of Health Report on Human Cloning (1998) This report is the...
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Article 30 mins
Using film music in the classroom
Education & Development

Using film music in the classroom

...analysis of film music as written and aural texts. The content acknowledged below is Proprietary (see terms and conditions). This content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence Course image: Tony and Debbie in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence. Grateful acknowledgement is made to the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs