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Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...educate patients and doctors about its benefits and reduced what she calls “morphine-phobia”. Opioid medications still require a special form, as in most countries worldwide. But a much wider range of professionals can now prescribe them, including oncologists and family and palliative care doctors. This has led to a 14-fold increase in their use in the country from...
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Article 15 mins
Does prison work?
Society, Politics & Law

Does prison work?

...educational qualifications and the, of course, and sadly, they're stigmatised by having the label 'offender' or 'ex-offender' applied to them. So that question is a much broader one and it's not simply the responsibility of the prison service to do something about that. Does prison work? part 2 Does prison work? part 3 (13 minutes 8 MB) RICHARD SPARKS So, what can...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...educational standpoint. It allows us to give due weight to the impact of significant texts at key historical moments, especially their role in shaping popular ideas and opinions. For instance, knowing who read, how many read, and how they responded to Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species helps us to understand the formation of Victorian ideas about evolution and race....
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Speeches and speech-making
History & The Arts

Speeches and speech-making

...education in the Middle Ages, and it is still very much alive today in the public sphere. Speeches by figures such as politicians are usually carefully crafted affairs, designed to be spoken, but relying on a written script. Analysing the construction of a speech, and its manner of delivery, can give interesting insights into the techniques of rhetoric, but what matters...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...education, despite my devotion as a father… So you see this is coming from an incredible sense of guilt. I suppose what I’m trying to do is save my boy in retrospect. I stood next to his coffin in the church. It was packed with people – a shattered community – and I made him a public promise. I said that I would investigate what had happened to him and that I...
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Article 15 mins
Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator
Languages

Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator

...technology. In the case of the caudate, activity there can now be distinguished from that in other parts of the basal ganglia, the larger brain area within which it is located. The finer-grained scans have revealed that the caudate is often involved in networks that regulate cognition and action, a role that puts it at the heart of an extraordinarily diverse range of...
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Marketing communications as a strategic function
Money & Business

Marketing communications as a strategic function

...technology for this purpose has swiftly been dubbed ‘e-detailing’, and has attracted a number of specialist communications agencies into the field. One such firm, ePocrates, sends brief details of new products to doctors via their Personal Digital Assistants – a popular productivity tool amongst American professionals. In keeping with permission-led electronic...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
What can philosophy tell us about race?
History & The Arts

What can philosophy tell us about race?

...education, income, wealth, employment, incarceration and health outcomes. [A row of figures in different shades.] Different academic disciplines ask different sorts of questions about race. For example, historians of race may be interested in understanding the development of the idea of race or of race relations over time, social scientists may be interested in gathering...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs