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Visions of protest: graffiti
History & The Arts

Visions of protest: graffiti

...money removing graffiti in response to public complaints, but they can also face difficult decisions as to which graffiti should be preserved or even protected. Some graffiti are much loved by local communities and can even become tourist attractions. One of the most famous British graffiti artists is known by the pseudonym ‘Banksy’. Banksy’s graffiti are...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...money to go for it as you did, or has the same tools, or maybe they just aren’t simply as good as you are? I don’t know, but it’s a great buzz to put that stuff there. And bowheads feeding, a bowhead is a big, baleen feeding whale, it lives in the Arctic, and I think I’m the only person to have got a shot of it feeding, because I shot it for Life on the Edge, a...
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Video 35 mins
Motivation and factors affecting motivation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Motivation and factors affecting motivation

...money in the world will buy that. You can't … the excitement of going to the game of football. Just at any level, you can't. You can't buy it. And to me, from now, I will watch from the sidelines as a fan. But I know deep down, it kills me. My aims and objective from now to this day forward, the rest of my life, is I’ve got uni work to finish by Friday. Which is...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish
Languages

Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish

...business. Pay particular attention to their gestures and how these emphasise the ideas they want to communicate. Match the phrases below with the body part they use for emphasis as they say these phrases. If you want, you can watch it with English subtitles. Cabeza “Mi padre y un tío” Dedos “Cuando les hablas de la money” Dedo índice “Ves, hacerse, sí lo...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
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

...money. I gave up all rat breeding in my bedroom when I was 14.” After graduating and starting work as a product designer, Weetjens found himself increasingly preoccupied with the problem of landmines. “I saw a documentary about Cambodia, and also Princess Diana in Angola visiting mine-extraction operations. These two things triggered in me the magnitude of the...
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Article 5 mins
Describing language Badge icon
Languages

Describing language

...business and global culture, but that does not automatically mean it is the biggest language in the world. According to the Ethnologue language website (Eberhard et al., 2020), the languages spoken by the largest number of people in the world are (in alphabetical order) English, Hindi, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. The actual number of speakers of each language depends on...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world

...Business School. Week 1: Your digital life...Week 1: Your digital life: Introduction - It is too early to tell whether the Internet’s effect on media will be as radical as that of the printing press. It is not too early to tell that there is nothing that happened between 1450 and now that comes close. (Naughton, 2012) Why is ‘digital’ such a big deal? Here are a few...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list

...business people in Angola and an untold number in the DRC. An ill China-bound traveler from either country could trigger transmission among the 100 million people living in large Chinese cities. From there yellow fever could spread to any and all 100 countries that have endemic dengue globally. “So, we should be very worried,” Woodall says. He also warns that health...
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Article 5 mins