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What do genes do?
Science, Maths & Technology

What do genes do?

...concepts of transcription (as occurs between DNA and RNA) and translation...This free course, What do genes do?, explores how information contained in DNA is used, explaining the flow of information from DNA to RNA to protein. Also introduced are the concepts of transcription (as occurs between DNA and RNA) and translation....What do genes do?: Introduction - This course...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece
History & The Arts

Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece

...concept of sex education was invented. Such popularity makes us question assumptions about how people in the pre-modern world learned about sex. Often we suppose that rural people like John Cannon did not need to consult books to learn about sex; they lived “closer to nature”, and could abstract what they saw in the barnyard to the bedroom. The most common euphemism...
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Article 10 mins
Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...concepts of themselves as male or female play a critical role in encouraging children to identify and endorse gender roles. This notion was first set out at the same time as the early social learning approaches to gender development. The book that contained Mischel’s (1966) account of the social learning approach to gender development also included Lawrence Kohlberg’s...
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Article 15 mins
Population ageing: a global health crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Population ageing: a global health crisis?

...concept of global health. You will also explore the ways in which population ageing is often framed as a crisis and begin to develop your own ideas about the implications of population ageing...This free course, Population ageing: a global health crisis?, focuses on two major issues of our time – ageing societies and global health. It provides you with an introduction...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Stereotypes
Languages

Stereotypes

...concept of stereotypes be aware of how stereotypes of culture and language emerge and function This material is adapted from L161, Exploring Languages and cultures, a level 1 module that is part of the Language Studies qualification. You can view descriptions of the module and degree below. Introduction You might have heard a joke that starts: In European heaven the...
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Activity 2 hrs
David Bowie and science fiction
History & The Arts

David Bowie and science fiction

...concept album about an alien who becomes a rock star, though structurally the record breaks down into two sections, sf songs on Side One, and songs about a rock star on Side Two. The sf elements in Bowie’s early work are discussed by Maureen King in a paper written in 1994 – ironically, King viewed sf as something Bowie had left behind shortly before Bowie himself...
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Article 5 mins
Do we have a right to die?
History & The Arts

Do we have a right to die?

...concept with two people discussing topic] Do individuals have a right to die? There are a welter of complicated issues around this apparently simple question, such as the distinction between allowing someone to die (by withdrawing treatment) and enabling them to die (by intervening). Let us put that to one side and consider whether someone suffering from a terminal...
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Activity 5 mins
Systems explained: What do we mean by feedback?
Money & Business

Systems explained: What do we mean by feedback?

...concepts in systems thinking. Instead of thinking in a linear way, it recognises that as well as one cause (A) leading to an effect (B), B will also affect A in various ways. This circular causality is called a 'feedback loop'. Many elements interacting and coupled in this way result in a complex system, of mutual causes and effects, especially when they involve human...
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Article 5 mins