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What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...et al. 2020) and such results show that reading can lead to potentially important behavioural change within society. [This image is of an oil/canvas painting by Henri Matisse, titled The Silence that Lives in Houses, 1947. The image shows two faceless figures reading a book at a table with a plant, with a window behind them that has some trees in the background.] ‘The...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Retirement planning made easy
Money & Business

Retirement planning made easy

...et cetera and how you want to dip into those. It's also really important, I think, at the start when you're looking at how much, you need to consider any debt that you have. Using your 25% tax free cash that you can take from your pension can be a really good way to pay off that debt as you head into retirement. The second step is then to work out how you're going to fund...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Blood and the respiratory system
Science, Maths & Technology

Blood and the respiratory system

...et al., 2003). Fine-tuning of the breathing pattern is controlled by inputs from the pontine respiratory group (Figure 16). Information from stretch receptors in the lungs is also used by the respiratory centres to determine when the lungs have expanded to full capacity. Some neurodegenerative diseases, such as motor neurone disease, are characterised by respiratory...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
An introduction to geology
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to geology

...Institution. Figure 2.21: James St. John. http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 2.0/ Figure 2.22: Sue Waters. http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 2.0/ Figures 2.23: Data © British Geological Survey. Videos Video 2.1: Anatomy of a smartphone: © The Open University Video 2.2: Extracting enough aluminium: © The Open University Video 2.3: Black Smokers: clips:...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...institutions or employers have imposed bans on hijabs, burqas or niqabs. In addition to concerns regarding either the separation or the union of state and religious authorities, both veiling bans and the legal imposition of veils have often at least partly been justified on the ground that they protect and liberate women. However, they have also been criticised for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Exploring communications technology
Digital & Computing

Exploring communications technology

...Institute of Technology (MIT). They have a wider range of application than EAN-13 codes. Reed-Solomon codes are used in compact disks, Blu-ray disks, DSL broadband, and in many other devices and media. RS codes are (n, k) block codes (as are EAN-13 codes), but, whereas EAN-13 codes operate on denary digits, the digits of RS codes are bytes. A byte is a group of eight...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online

...Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and called the 802.11 family. You will see different variants of this standard on wireless routers, for example 802.11b, 802.11g and 802.11n. In wireless LANs, the individual laptops, mobile phones and other devices, or nodes, are usually referred to as stations, acknowledging the fact that each communicating device...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...et al., 1987). A second point to remember is that the names of places in the ancient world are usually different from place names in the modern world. So, for example, the site believed to be Troy is at the modern place called Hissarlik. In other cases, the modern name is recognisably related to the ancient name, so the modern Greek place name Sparti is the site of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs