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Blood and the respiratory system
Science, Maths & Technology

Blood and the respiratory system

...centre in the medulla of the brain. The intercostal muscles are located in the ribcage. They receive neuronal inputs from intercostal nerves that arise from the thoracic nerves of the spinal cord. The bronchi and bronchioles are also surrounded by smooth muscle cells that contract and dilate to regulate the amount of air that passes down to the alveoli. Activity 2...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Developing high trust work relationships
Money & Business

Developing high trust work relationships

...research on trust. Graham gives an overview of the multitude of ways that trust is important in organisations. As you watch the video note down your own thoughts about what ‘trust’ within the organisational setting means for you. Consider how something so individual can be meaningful for organisations. DR. GRAHAM DIETZ: My name is Dr. Graham Dietz, and I work at...
For some people, staying awake might help fight depression
Health, Sports & Psychology

For some people, staying awake might help fight depression

...researcher from Tübingen in Germany, Burkhard Pflug, who investigated the effect in his doctoral thesis and in subsequent studies during the 1970s. By systematically depriving depressed people of sleep, he confirmed that spending a single night awake could jolt them out of depression. Benedetti became interested in this idea as a young psychiatrist in the early 1990s....
Training for endurance in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for endurance in sport and fitness

...centre of mass-- essentially, the area surrounding the hips has to stay level. Obviously, some of these factors are inherited and cannot be changed while others can be modified. In general, Kenyan and Ethiopian runners tend to have more of the unmodifiable factors such as relatively long legs compared to height, low body fat, narrow hips, and small calves. Any athlete's...
World-Changing Women: Christine de Pizan
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Christine de Pizan

...children. Having received an excellent education, she took to writing verses to earn a living and these were well received. This success helped her become one of the first professional female writers in Europe. Her patrons included Louis I, Duke d’Orléans; the Duke de Berry; Philip II the Bold of Burgundy; Queen Isabella of Bavaria and, in England, the 4th Earl of...
Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?
Society, Politics & Law

Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?

...researched how otherkin, and others, have been viewed through the centuries. ...As social beings, a sense of identity plays an important role in our relations – and in our own happiness. But identity doesn’t have to be narrowly human. In an essay looking at the groups that exist on the edge of conventional boundaries, and are often subject to prurience and ridicule,...
Using digital tools to save languages
Languages

Using digital tools to save languages

...researching the storytelling patterns of my community. I spent days trying to persuade my grandma to tell me some of the stories from her time. But she’s always been moody, and she wouldn’t comply. Then one morning, out of the blue, she started telling me stories. After the first one, I had this gut feeling that I had to record it, even though I didn’t know how I...
Work and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Work and mental health

...Centre for Mental Health, 2013). In this free course, Work and mental health, you will look at some of the ways in which employment affects mental health and what can be done to support people in finding and keeping work...Although being at work during periods of mental illness can be difficult for those with mental health problems, most people with these difficulties...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs