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Introducing mammals
Nature & Environment

Introducing mammals

...Write down the mammalian features evident in monotremes. Is their egg-laying habit similar in all ways to that displayed by reptiles? Answer Both echidnas and the platypus have fur – though in the former, some of the hairs are thickened in the form of spines. Both animals produce milk – they have mammary glands, though well-defined nipples are not evident. Immature...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...writing, the world’s technical hydro potential is estimated to be about 16 000 TWh y−1, (two-fifths of the above total resource) though the International Energy Agency estimates it at 14 600 TWh y−1(IEA, 2016). This latter figure is equivalent to an installed capacity of around 3 700 GW, approximately three times the current figure. But how much hydroelectricity is...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology

...Write your answers in the boxes provided in the last column. Then click on ‘Reveal feedback’ to see the answers. The first box has been filled in for you. Table 1 Viral infections VIRUS DISEASE ACUTE OR LATENT/CHRONIC INFECTION SARS-CoV2 COVID-19 Acute Rubella virus German measles Ebola virus Ebola Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) Acquired immune deficiency syndrome...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Advanced Spanish: Arts and crafts
Languages

Advanced Spanish: Arts and crafts

...writing. You will examine the world of Spanish and Latin-American art and explore the difference between art and craft...This free course, Advanced Spanish: Arts and crafts, is designed to develop your knowledge and understanding of Spanish-speaking societies and cultures and extend the practical skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. You will examine the...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide
Health, Sports & Psychology

The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide

...writing, it remains to be seen if Qatar will afford its visiting spectators a degree of cultural freedom and right to protest...Session 2: International politics and FIFA: 6 Summary of Session 2 - Having completed the second session you should have a better understanding of how a range of politics issues have impacted not only the tournament, but FIFA more generally. The...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision

...writing books, but a producer from the Natural History Unit came to me and said, ‘Why don’t you make a television series about human beings as animals, the zoology of the human being?’ This appealed to me and so I did make a series called The Human Animal as a documentary series. And now I had a big budget I was able to film all over the world and to study human...
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Video 1 hr 40 mins
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...writings of Karl Marx at the bottom centre; a figure on the far left holding a copy of Marx’s Capital and ridiculing a university lecturer espousing reactionary ideas; and, at the top in the centre, the figure of Marx himself holding a scroll with passages from the 1848 Communist Manifesto. He is instructing the triad of soldier, worker and peasant while pointing out of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Modern slavery
Society, Politics & Law

Modern slavery

...writing (June 2015), the UK still has not ratified the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse. Nonetheless, the UK has ratified the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings. The UK Government has attempted to address the need for a more child-sensitive approach to child...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs