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Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...intelligent - Intelligence is a useful commodity: it can help an animal to make sense of its environment and cope with the demands of social behaviour (including courtship and competition). Hunters tend to be relatively intelligent, and otters, pinnipeds and cetaceans, for example, share a playful curiosity that is characteristic of animals that catch other animals for a...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs

...intelligent, which you can find out more about here – link to The value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace article Recognising self-limiting beliefs How might we recognise our own self-limiting beliefs? These often take the form of inner mind chatter that is negative and self-sabotaging, such as ‘I’ll never be able to do that’ or ‘I’m not...
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Article 10 mins
Psychological profiling
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological profiling

...intelligence too. I believe Aristotle said something along the lines of "nobody is evil (from their own point of view), for if they thought their act was evil they wouldn't do it." My belief is that comprehension of others, of others' points of view, is something that has to be thought about in order to be acquired. While empathy is often thought of as a single entity, I...
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Article 10 mins
What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?
Languages

What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?

...artificially inducing high or low expectations of academic talent, the implications of the Pygmalion and Golem effects in diverse schools are clear for students from backgrounds about whom group stereotypes exist: if there is a widespread belief in a society that the children of rich parents have higher academic potential than the children of poor parents, many teachers...
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Article 5 mins
The Problem with Pink
History & The Arts

The Problem with Pink

...artificiality. For me, as an art historian specialising in eighteenth-century French art, the debate around pink is of interest because no period in the history of art is more associated with the colour. For much of the century, art and design was dominated by the playful, erotic and decorative style known as the rococo. Artists associated with the style, most notably the...
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Article 10 mins
Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...intelligent animals are increasingly vulnerable to threats like overfishing, getting tangled in nets, and pollution. But if you don't have an expensive camera or specialist training, don't despair. Monitoring dolphins is something that anyone can do. Here at Chanonry Point, we're a little bit further along the Moray Firth, towards Inverness, and the dolphins come in so...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introduction to business agility
Money & Business

Introduction to business agility

...Intelligent Flow Pattern 7: Continuous attention to technical excellence ‘We need to get better at benefits management. We don’t really know what value our change investments are adding; it’s just opinion. We have to get smarter at articulating, measuring and prioritising highest value!’ I want to optimise for highest value Pattern 1: Focus on the outcomes Pattern...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake
Science, Maths & Technology

Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake

...intelligent cultures around the universe, why haven't we met them yet? And why haven't we heard from them? Frank Drake explains...Watch Read Frank Drake: So here we are at this nice old building here. Dallas Campbell: How does it make you feel being here again? Do you feel nostalgic? Frank Drake: I feel as though I’m in a time warp. I’m back 50 years in time. Because...
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Video 30 mins