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Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...family member who would like to read your work and give you their thoughts. Perhaps you already know some other writers you can exchange ideas with. There might be a local writing group in your area, or otherwise an online group set up for this purpose. Finding some fellow writers and sharing work can be an invaluable exercise, both for obtaining some feedback on your...

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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs

Languages

Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?

...family or band to speak other tongues. We can get some sense of how prevalent multilingualism may have been from the few hunter-gatherer peoples who survive today. “If you look at modern hunter-gatherers, they are almost all multilingual,” says Thomas Bak, a cognitive neurologist who studies the science of languages at the University of Edinburgh. “The rule is that...

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Article 10 mins

Society, Politics & Law

Wales and rugby

...families but that element of almost class tension and antagonism which I think was a feature certainly a hundred years ago is far less pronounced today. Hugh Mackay: How would you say that class of Welsh and English rugby versus one another plays out today? Gareth Williams: I think the class element is still present in Anglo-Welsh rugby relations in the sense that there...

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Audio 20 mins

Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...family as well as in wider culture. When children’s gender role-inconsistent behaviour is met with open ridicule by adults and peers there is a clear motivation for the child to behave in a gender-stereotyped manner. However, there is also evidence of choice and flexibility in children’s behaviour, and this is where cognitive processes come into play. Once children...

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Article 15 mins

History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...family they would be working. So when Robert Owen said “your’re not going to do this” they were thinking, “well this is effectively a cut in wages, we don’t like this" What he does is he institutes a system whereby the children will be taken into what we would call a workplace nursery and from the age they could walk alone as he says they were taken effectively...

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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs

Nature & Environment

Introducing mammals

...family tree of placental mammals, based on molecular evidence, is shown in Figure 14. In this introductory course, the monotremes and marsupials are given particular focus. Although they are far less diverse than the placental mammals, their adaptations – particularly in the area of reproduction – are fascinating and informative. [Described image] Figure 13 An...

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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs

Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...family Bovidae smaller than sheep or goats, but some deer (family Cervidae) are less than a tenth of that size as adults. Some tropical deer, notably species of mouse deer Tragulus, weigh only 1–2 kg, well within the range of size of mammals that can become torpid, but none is known to do so. One reason might be that substantial changes in body temperature would kill...

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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs

Science, Maths & Technology

Mathematics for science and technology

...family of three children only one will be a boy? Assuming that the sex of a child is independent of the sexes of its siblings, the probability that the first child is a boy is one divided by two , the probability that the second is a girl is one divided by two , and the probability that the third is also a girl is one divided by two . So the probability of this particular...

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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs

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