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Emotion: an introductory picture
History & The Arts

Emotion: an introductory picture

...2 Select one item on the list that you would identify as a cause of Larry's anger. Select another item that you would identify as an effect of his anger. Discussion Answers to these questions may vary. But the eliciting event certainly looks like a cause: we would find it natural to say that Larry is angry because Bella has told him that his project has been rejected....
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...2: Safety on the railways in Britain It is an unfortunate fact that fatalities occur on the railways across Britain, and, as a result, politicians tend to act quickly to allay public fears. In 1999 they announced the nationwide introduction of automatic systems to prevent trains passing through red lights, so as to prevent collisions (the Train Protection and Warning...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
More or Less: interview with Tim Harford
Science, Maths & Technology

More or Less: interview with Tim Harford

...2) Has there been any change in statistics being used to inform policy? Transcript: "I think we've taken some steps in the right direction, but they're quite small steps..." KEVIN MCCONWAY: Just in terms of the use of numerical evidence, numerical stories and things by others, do you think we’ve moved on as a nation, as a society, in terms of evidence-based policy? I...
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Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision

...2°C warmed world. If you talk to UN climate scientists, they understand that that is a very difficult figure within which we should work and remain within a world which isn’t fundamentally compromised. Television had a big role in the nineties in terms of communicating to wide, mainstream audiences, this was an age before the rise of broadband, before the rise of...
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Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?

...2: 2018: 261–29 Barclay's general thesis and approach is critiqued by Sean Damer in his review of Kenny MacAskill’s 2019 book, Glasgow 1919. Sean Damer, 2019, ‘In the Rapids of Revolution: Review of MacAskill, Glasgow 1919’, Scottish Affairs, 28, 3, pp. 339-348. For more on the Glasgow 1919 ‘tanks controversy’ see: A Thousand Flowers, ‘The Trongate Tank That...
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Gene testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Gene testing

...2 Examine figure 1 above. Will the second child of the family depicted in the chart be affected with cystic fibrosis? Answer For an individual to suffer from cystic fibrosis they must inherit two copies of the cystic fibrosis gene, one from each parent. The parents must therefore be carriers (and they each would have inherited one copy of the cystic fibrosis gene from one...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Perspectives on social work: individual stories
Health, Sports & Psychology

Perspectives on social work: individual stories

...openlearn-wales-take-your-learning-further 2. Linked study material from the Open Universityhttp://www.open.ac.uk/ choose/ ou/ open-content 3. This subject and free course materials on OpenLearnhttp://www.open.edu/ openlearn/ 4. Studying from outside the UK? We have students in over a hundred countries who are studying online qualifications http://www.openuniversity.edu/...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision

...2 One of the problems with David Attenborough is that he’s too good at everything he does. He got trapped by his excellence as Head of BBC because he didn’t really want the job, he didn’t want to be sitting in an office, but he was too good at it and he innovated as a Controller of BBC an introduced a whole lot of new ideas and was very concerned that television...
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Video 1 hr 40 mins