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Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...writing (2003), giving rise to the term ‘drive-by hacking’, although many instances have occurred quite simply because basic security features have not been activated. As a result, all the attacks on the LAN that I have described so far can be performed by someone who does not even have physical access to the site, but could be on the street nearby, for example in a...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...writing MMR: 1+1+1 3 on a window – echoing memorable scenes from the film Beautiful Mind in which Russell Crowe, playing mathematician John Nash, covers his windows with mathematical equations. Activity 4 What do you think? Was Channel Five irresponsible to dramatise the MMR–autism controversy, lending credibility to a scientifically discredited viewpoint? Or is it...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris
Languages

Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris

...write a summary, use the subjunctive, report numbers and express wishes in French...Using the topic of science and technology in France, this free course, Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris, will show you how to structure arguments, write a summary, use the subjunctive, report numbers and express wishes in French....Advanced French: At the science museum in...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...write a great deal about how the sick were cared for by doctors and in hospitals, in the past (as nowadays) minor complaints were diagnosed and treated at home, almost entirely without the help of medical professionals, using special diets and home-made or bought-in remedies. As with preserving health, poor families had relatively few resources for treatment. They might...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection

...Write a short summary of the anecdote and analyse it using the same three questions that you applied to the Fraser Doherty story and compare the answers. An early entrepreneurial experience? I started my entrepreneurial journey very young, although some people start even younger than I did. In a lot of ways, starting at such a young age has an advantage: the naivety of...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...write down what you understand by the term 'adaptation'. An adaptation is a morphological, physiological, biochemical, developmental or behavioural trait that gives an organism a greater ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment. For selection to occur there must be variation within a population, because if every individual is identical, there is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...writes: […] my mental state bore no resemblance to anything I had experienced before. I had had periods of feeling low but they were nothing like my depressed state. I was totally self-involved and negative and thought about suicide all the time. I just wanted to be left alone and remain curled up in my bed all day. I could not ride my bicycle and had panic attacks if...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...write a short summary of the authors’ views on language and terminology. Reading 1 Reading 2 Discussion Your list may have contained some or all of the following terms: lunacy, mania, madness, insanity, mental ill health, mental illness, mental distress, mental health problems. More specifically, you may have mentioned schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, neurosis and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs