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Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...write them by hand, you should underline the name). My dictionary gives, at the end of the definition of the word 'lepton', the Greek word leptos meaning 'slender' or 'fine' and at the end of the definition of 'onyx', it gives onyx as a Greek word meaning 'nail' or 'claw'. So the name of the genus, Leptonychotes refers to the narrow claws on the flippers of the seal...
What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...write down some key words that spring to mind when you think of the term ‘heritage’. Now try to write down some of the sorts of things that you think could be described as heritage. Save this list so that you can refer to it later on. Discussion Summing up what you think heritage is may not have been as easy as you thought it might be. Perhaps you wrote down something...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...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 Figure 1: © SolStock/iStock Figure 2: © SilviaJansen/Getty Images...
Physical and mental health for young children
Education & Development

Physical and mental health for young children

...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: Courtesy: Phoebe via parent/Guardian Audio/Video Video 1...
Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...creativity. Sometimes we need to spend our bodies and go to jail. What’s different, perhaps, about this movement is that it’s the first one a) to be on a global scale and b) to arise in the time of social media. At 350.org, which we started seven years ago with nothing – myself and seven college undergraduates – has grown to the point where it now has held, we...
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...
Building relationships with donors
Money & Business

Building relationships with donors

...creative activity: creating a suitable opportunity for someone to give. It is based on four key aspects of the process of asking, but without presenting these as a series of steps. The business of asking is essentially relational and interactive. Figure 1 and Box 2 summarise the continual interplay and adjustment between the four aspects. [Figure 1] Figure 1 The process...
What did it mean to be found guilty by joint enterprise?
Society, Politics & Law

What did it mean to be found guilty by joint enterprise?

...writing for the Contributoria website as a Justice Select Committee investigated the rules, Mischa Wilmers met someone whose life had been upended by a joint enterprise verdict - and explored the justice of the way it was being applied. [The UK Supreme Court] The UK Supreme Court Over the past two months a Justice Select Committee inquiry into one of the most...