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From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...Write down the main ways in which you think human language and the call system of the vervet monkey might differ. Keep this list with you and compare it with the differences mentioned in the text as you go through the first half of this course. This course is in two parts. In the first half (Section 2), we will investigate the nature and structure of human language,...
Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...write them by hand, you should underline the name. In this instance, the Greek word leptos means ‘slender’ or ‘fine’, and onyx is a Greek word meaning ‘nail’ or ‘claw’. So the name of the genus Leptonychotes refers to the narrow claws on the flippers of the seal (actually, the hind flippers in this case). The species name weddelli is given in honour of...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Gofalu am oedolion
Health, Sports & Psychology

Gofalu am oedolion

...Creative Commons 4.0. Mae'r deunydd a gaiff ei gydnabod isod yn Berchenogol ac fe'i defnyddir dan drwydded (nid yw'n ddarostyngedig i Drwydded Creative Commons). Rydym yn ddiolchgar iawn i'r ffynonellau canlynol am roi caniatâd i ni atgynhyrchu deunydd yn y cwrs am ddim hwn: Gwnaed pob ymdrech i gysylltu â pherchenogion hawlfreintiau. Os byddwn wedi hepgor unrhyw...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...in my day-to-day life. Advances in cyborg technology are driven by members of the community itself, many of whom, as programmers, enjoy customising their devices. For non-techies like me, the risks, small though they may be, don’t (yet) seem to validate the rewards. This article first appeared on Mosaic and is republished here under a Creative Commons licence....
Why maps are made
Society, Politics & Law

Why maps are made

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Licence. Map 1 Image produced by: getmapping.com PLC, tel. 01252 845444, http://www.getmapping.com Map 2 extract from Ordnance Survey (Six Inch Map) (1835) Permit No. MP001200 Map 4 © The Economist, London, 23–29 October 1999 Map 5 Gould, P. and White, R. (1974) Mental Maps. ‘How Londoners see the North – at least,...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Intermediate French: 14 July
Languages

Intermediate French: 14 July

...Write out phrases or sentences it appears in as you come across them (perhaps with one page for each of the four past participle endings). You could also invent short dialogues using past participles that have the same ending: the rhyme may help you to memorise them. There is an example of this technique in the next activity, where we have used only monosyllabic past...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...writing, publishing papers or what? BP: Yeah, what you do as an academic. I published papers on all sorts to do with sports science, but also I have a special interest, perhaps from my own experience, in how people perceive potential disasters, how people respond to existential risks, and societies, how we deal with big environmental, potential problems, how do we deal...
Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...creative. So you have to come up with situations which are as natural as possible to the animal, but still will help you to answer your question. NARRATOR And what can the answers to these questions tell us about perception and awareness in dogs? And the possibility that they may have theory of mind? DR JULIANE KAMINSKI When it comes to theory of mind, so what we think we...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs