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The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation

...changes in the body such as increased sweating, heart rate and blood pressure, and a reduction in digestion. Essentially, this results in oxygen being pumped quickly to the muscles in preparation for a ‘fight or flight’ response. Once the threat is gone, the parasympathetic branch (rest and digest) takes over and brings the body back to a balanced state. The term...
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Article 5 mins
The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace

...change and complex situations, that there must be other skills involved than just those measured by IQ tests – ones that help build relationships, manage emotions and navigate social situations. Psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer were especially interested in the influence of emotion on cognition – do people think and behave differently when emotions are...
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Language of Poverty
Society, Politics & Law

Language of Poverty

...changed in recent years. Politicians and those involved in public policy have used language to demonise the poor in an era when the social divide in this country is widening. In this podcast we will be discussing how this change has occurred and what it means for the way we view class in contemporary society. Joining me are Owen Jones, commentator and broadcaster, author...
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Discovering music through listening
History & The Arts

Discovering music through listening

...change the tempo to add contrast and create interest within a single piece. [This shows a tempo marking in musical notation] Figure 2 A tempo marking in musical notation. Activity 2 Listen to the following extracts and decide whether the tempo, and therefore the pulse, of each extract is fast or slow. Indicate this below using the words ‘fast’ or ‘slow’. While...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Getting started on ancient Greek
History & The Arts

Getting started on ancient Greek

...change occurred is debated. 3. chi (χ / Χ) was pronounced as ‘k’ followed by ‘h’. If possible, you should pronounce this like ‘ch’ in loch, to distinguish it from a kappa, but you will hear it as a ‘k’ sound as well: χρονοϛ (time) strict: simplified: 4. zeta (ζ / Ζ) is properly pronounced like the ‘s’ + ‘d’ sounds in the phrase ‘it is...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
History & The Arts

Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks

...changing his course, after which, finding a favourable wind, he steered towards the coast of Africa, heading directly North North-East. But when he had sailed four or five hundred leagues in this direction, the Masters of the three ships under his command, fearing that they would run out of water before they reached their pretended destination, proposed that they should...
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EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...changes. And back up your backup. Once a week, make a backup copy of your files (your dissertation, your notes and the resources you have collected) to an external hard drive, memory stick or cloud storage. Timings & deadlines Work out how much time you have to write your dissertation, and how much time you want to allocate to each section. (There’ll be more on this...
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Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...changed little until the 1980s. In 1972, new watermarked, blue security paper and laminated photographs were introduced. Eye colour and wife's maiden name were dropped. In this 1982 passport, a space for spouse's photograph is included, a practise that was discontinued in 1988. By the end of 1988, the first burgundy, machine readable passports, featuring the words...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs