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Attention
Society, Politics & Law

Attention

...typing or, out of the corner of my eye, I can be aware of the window and detect a bird when it flies past. If our eyes can receive a wide range of information in parallel, does that give the brain an attentional problem analogous to that of disentangling sounds? If visual information is handled in much the same way as auditory information seems to be, then we might expect...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...de Sévigné’s letters with Byron’s verse: ‘I do not admire “Madame de Sévigné’s letters,” though the French is excellent [...] yet the sentiment is not novel […] the last Canto of “Childe Harold” (certainly much superior to the others) has delighted me more than I can express. The description of the waterfall is the most exquisite piece of poetry that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...types of knowledge required by designers. Design teams are rarely static in their composition, and will rarely rely on the skills of designers alone. Specialist contributions will be sought throughout the whole process of designing: for example, advice on a potential market, information on a new material or results from the testing of a prototype. However, at the core of...
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Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...types of natural capital, such as oil and gas reserves, are finite stocks. With others, such as forestry and fish, it may be possible to replenish or increase the stock. However, when faced with the depletion of an input to production, or a type of capital, neoclassical economics assumes that different forms of capital are substitutable, enabling future generations’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...types and eating practices from around the world in the context of how our ancestors ate. Please note that there are some images in the associated picture galleries of animal species being caught or eaten by humans. If these are likely to offend you then we advise you to skim quickly past the galleries and concentrate on the text, instead. Equally, you can skip this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...type of interaction, the emotions expressed, and the relationship between the speakers – suggesting perhaps that these aspects of interaction have at least some universal characteristics. Differences Sounds, words, gestures and their meanings are all different, and it is these differences which (bar a few coincidences) make languages mutually unintelligible...Language...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...de Fermat, about a problem connected with a dice game is now considered a seminal moment in this development. The problem in question, known as the ‘problem of points’, concerns the fair division of stakes should a dice game be interrupted before a player has won. [This is a composite of two portraits, of the mathematicians Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat.] Figure...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...phrase ‘exposed to risks’. The prosecution case maintained that it was not necessary to prove that members of the public had inhaled the Legionella bacterium, or even that it was present in the air. It was sufficient that there was a risk of it being there. The Court of Appeal agreed with this interpretation, which implied ‘a possibility of danger’. Given the...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs