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How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...writes Alex O'Brien...In 2004, Dr Richard Ellenbogen spent almost 20 hours operating on a 17-year-old girl with a brain tumour. He ended up leaving a big piece of the tumour behind, mistaking it for normal brain tissue. Less than a year after the surgery, the cancer hit back and the young girl died. The week the girl died, Ellenbogen presented the case at his team’s...
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Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...creatively and critically during English teaching? Do we want them to struggle less, to develop their fluency and comprehension? Do we want them to find reading sufficiently absorbing so they choose to read more frequently at home, and, potentially at least, become lifelong readers? All these interrelated aspirations would be advantageous, but the last is particularly...
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Perspectives on social work: individual stories
Health, Sports & Psychology

Perspectives on social work: individual stories

...writing about it. I hadn't realized that it was in my background. My dad was disabled, and my brother suffered from Down's Syndrome. I was familiar with having social workers in the house. Supervision is important to social workers, especially new social workers. In order to know they're supported and that their work is appreciated. Often people work long hours. They're...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Studying mammals: The opportunists
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The opportunists

...writes 'Specialism is a high-wire act - spectacular when it is successful but catastrophic if there is one small failure' [p. 158]. One has to ask, therefore, why one species in an apparently successful family of omnivores turned so emphatically to such an extreme form of dietary specialisation and adaptation that it is now on the verge of extinction. The answer must be...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...creative-destructive’ tendencies of capitalism, although the extent to which the costs of the destructive aspect of this phenomenon are considered acceptable is a subject that divides opinion to this day. As Godin (2008) notes, Schumpeter (1912, 1934) provides us with an early characterisation of innovation as any of five phenomena: the introduction of a new good the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840
History & The Arts

National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840

...writing, could be prosecuted by the state for ‘sedition’. Authors often sought to avoid prosecution by using a pseudonym. The pseudonym in this case is also significant: Hibernia is the Latin word for Ireland, and ‘Hibernicus’ means ‘of or pertaining to the Irish people’. Although England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales had long shared a monarch, in 1801, for the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Using data to aid organisational change
Money & Business

Using data to aid organisational change

...writing exercise is designed to help you develop a specific work problem or change statement. Go through the three steps suggested below. Step 1: Describe in two or three sentences the opportunity or change that you have identified. Step 2: Look at every describing word (and question as below) and define each that you feel are necessary. Note that this is an iterative...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The science of alcohol Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of alcohol

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Course image: © Rouzes/Getty Images. Every effort has been made to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs