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Studying mammals: The opportunists
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The opportunists

...adult size, and need to grow quickly if they are to withstand the rigours of the following winter. Lactation requires a high level of metabolism. Whatever the reason, or combination of reasons, there is much to learn from the grizzly about this type of hibernation. But you'll appreciate that it takes a particularly intrepid biologist to enter the den of a responsive,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Meiosis and mitosis
Science, Maths & Technology

Meiosis and mitosis

...adult by digesting and metabolising food and drink. The parents in each case pass to their progeny, or offspring, the information and specification for building cells from materials around them. This information lies in the genetic material, or DNA, which is found in the chromosomes within the nucleus and which is transmitted from generation to generation. Chromosomes can...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...careful not to impose a Christian conception of life on Earth and life after death (not to mention a modern secular concept of life on Earth and nothing after death) upon Egyptian representations of their beliefs about humans, gods and what happens to the human body (as well as to the more intangible aspects of life) after the individual has died. One thing in particular...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

The science of alcohol

...care must be taken about when the lupulone is added to the boil. If added too early, it simply evaporates and the flavour is lost. [This shows the chemical structure of a beta acid known as lupulone.] Figure 4 Lupulone Look carefully at the structures of both components of the hops. Do you recognise a particular functional group? Both humulone and lupulone contain the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Hybrid working: planning for the future
Money & Business

Hybrid working: planning for the future

...care. And then the third one was about the idea that Norway, which is a very oil-rich nation, might suffer as a result of the climate crisis. We might have to stop burning fossil fuels suddenly. And then if there was mismanagement or scandal or some other disruption, Norway might no longer be as wealthy as it has grown used to being in the 20th century. And what happened...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...care to visit them. Like the pleasures of the Gothick folly (exemplified in the building of Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire by the prince's vastly rich friend, William Beckford), this sort of ‘Chineseness’ bore witness to a rebellious undercurrent that ran counter to, and in parallel with, established Neoclassicism, although for the most part safely located outside the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...care, or lack of it, to take studies from nature. Caravaggio's ‘mere copying’ put him at odds with the intellectual current in the classicising art of his colleagues. Bellori suggests that Caravaggio supplied an easy option for young artists who therefore lacked discipline in their practice and simply tried to outdo one another. These are powerful models for any...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Financial statement analysis and interpretation
Money & Business

Financial statement analysis and interpretation

...careful evaluation of the makeup of each figure within financial statements should be carried out. If a figure in financial statements is an aggregate of other line items, then one must carefully consider that the figure it is to be compared with is an aggregate of the same line items. For example, if you are analysing finance costs, you must carefully consider which line...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs