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Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...health and well-being. A lack of nutrition security manifests in malnutrition caused by not eating enough of the right things necessary for an active and healthy life. A nutritious diet consists of macronutrients (carbohydrates, proteins and fats) in certain proportions, and a wide range of micronutrients (vitamins and minerals). But does the current global food...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?
Science, Maths & Technology

What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?

...health problems. Cations are also important. For example, calcium salts contribute to the hardness of water and water treatment uses aluminium compounds. Additionally oxidising agents, such as ozone or chlorine, are vital in the disinfection of water. This OpenLearn course focuses on the chemistry of the p-block elements in Groups 13 to 18 of the Periodic Table...Do you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
The body in antiquity
History & The Arts

The body in antiquity

...public bath. Even the fact that I have a bathroom in my flat is something that has a specific history in modern western culture relating to how we expect to live our lives. Referring to the post-war fashions for alfresco dining and indoor bathrooms, my grandfather once declared that the world had gone mad because people were going outside to eat, but coming inside to...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Goya
History & The Arts

Goya

...public work became more sought after, however, he developed a parallel career as a graphic artist that seemed to express more freely a private view of the injustices, vices, follies and inhumanity of contemporary society. This shift coincided with his own increasing deafness. It also intensified as Spain was wracked by the grief and suffering of war provoked by the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...public welfare … An evil or injurious act; an offence, sin; esp. of a grave character. But this definition begs a whole host of questions. Ones that come immediately to mind are: Does the law cover all acts that are injurious to public welfare? Does that include disastrous economic decisions taken by the government? Does the law forbid all the sins of this world? Is it...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list

...public affairs diplomacy available to it. The North even negotiated with Seoul to send a joint Korean team to the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics, though it has never panned out. For athletes from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), it is an opportunity to represent the country in front of an international audience in spite of the intense pressure of...
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Article 5 mins
More or Less: interview with Tim Harford
Science, Maths & Technology

More or Less: interview with Tim Harford

...public policy better, what the Nudge Unit really did that I think was interesting was run randomised trials. And it has popularised the idea of randomised trials with ministers who now say well you can run a randomised trial fairly cheaply, it doesn’t have to be this great big sophisticated thing, doesn’t have to cost a lot of money, you can get results quite quickly....
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Wales and rugby
Society, Politics & Law

Wales and rugby

...public schools and universities and it initially made an impact at the public school Llandovery, Lampeter college, Brecon College, at that level in Wales but in less than a decade it spread out into the society which was at that point undergoing massive population increase, related to that massive industrialisation. So you have a new workforce which is anxious to assert...
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