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Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...Think about how the geographical and cultural environment where people live influences what they eat. Write a summary of how your dinner plate is different in its content from other dinner plates around the world and comment on the usefulness of NHS recommendations in those parts of the world. (Answer in fewer than 200 words.) Discussion The National Geographic feature...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Essay and report writing skills
Education & Development

Essay and report writing skills

...think! We’d love to hear from you to help us improve our free learning offering through OpenLearn by filling out this short survey...Essay and report writing skills: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand what writing an assignment involves identify strengths and weaknesses understand the functions of essays and reports...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Making social media work in Higher Education
Education & Development

Making social media work in Higher Education

...think you are making the most out of the free time you have available to learn? More specifically, if you are a student at university who is using social media as part of your studies, are you getting the most out of the time you spend on these apps? Or are you wasting valuable study time browsing Facebook, Instagram, or other social media platforms, reading unrelated...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Manufacturing

...system, which is to describe a circle as sweeping out a number of radians. You can think of a radian as being just like a degree, but rather than there being 360 of them in a circle, there are 2π of them. This may sound complicated, but it has the huge advantage that it makes the maths easier! Because the circumference is 2πr, and the wheel turns 2π radians in the same...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Nationalism, self-determination and secession
Society, Politics & Law

Nationalism, self-determination and secession

...think of themselves as nations challenge the existing order and assert their right to a state of their own. And at the same time it is a kind of gentle introduction to how to study political ideas. It is more theoretical, or philosophical, than historical, but that doesn’t mean it has no purchase on the real world. The practical examples with which it works range from...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Why is fish the translator's nightmare?
Languages

Why is fish the translator's nightmare?

...think it's a white fish," explained his wife. This didn't satisfy him. "We've eliminated the orange fishes like salmon, and the pink fishes like tuna. That still leaves a lot of fish." I picked up the theme. "Is it flat and crumbly, or plump and flaky? Is it a hearty slab, or a slender fillet? Is it a DIY flip-job, like a trout? Will it stare at me from the plate?" The...
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Article 5 mins
Labour to the marrow: Exploring the party's ethos
Society, Politics & Law

Labour to the marrow: Exploring the party's ethos

...think about politics. But how do members and supporters of a single party create a collective perception of its ethos – what it stands for and where its future lies? Karl Pike examines these concepts in relation to the Labour Party, and explains how ethos can affect political direction...[Placards from a Labour Party rally in Canterbury, 2016] Placards at a Labour Party...
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Lady Llanover, Welsh airs and national harmony
History & The Arts

Lady Llanover, Welsh airs and national harmony

...think, but in fact it was significant for a number of reasons. Up to then, collections of Welsh ‘traditional music’ had targeted a fashionable English-speaking market, presenting the tunes alone or giving them English words. To present them with their original Welsh words was to insist on the significance of the culture of the common people of Wales – in Welsh, the...
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Article 5 mins