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Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance
History & The Arts

Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Course image: Kent Monkman (Fisher River Cree Nation), The Scream,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Introduction to music theory 1: form
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 1: form

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Course image: Keystone/Zuma/Bridgeman Images Figure 3: Map showing Democratic...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?
Languages

Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?

...write at least one of a handful of “super” languages, such as English, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish or Arabic, as well. So to be monolingual, as many native English speakers are, is to be in the minority, and perhaps to be missing out. Multilingualism has been shown to have many social, psychological and lifestyle advantages. Moreover, researchers are finding a swathe of...
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Article 10 mins
The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies
Health, Sports & Psychology

The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies

...Write Your Obituary’ by Nora Cooper *** “He’s only 17, how can he be dead?” For once, Big Gay Mick wasn’t saying much. “I don’t know. We just seen his stepdad getting out of a taxi at the top of the street and he told us.” There was no getting any other details out of him; he was in shock. Big Gay Mick was not normally lost for words. Stick-thin, with a...
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Article 15 mins
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...writing large and small numbers, including fractions, decimals and powers of ten, which are shown here for reference (see Table 1). Table 1 Examples of different ways of writing large and small numbers Prefix Prefix name Meaning Number or fraction Decimal Power of ten G giga billion or thousand million 1 000 000 000 1 000 000 000 109 M mega million 1 000 000 1 000 000 106...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...writing years later): ‘O my friends, what a fine head he has! It's pure, it's great, it's as beautiful as the Antique! Here is a man to whom altars would have been erected in ancient times …. Bonaparte is my hero!’ (Delécluze, 1983, p.200; quoted in Brooker, 1980, p.142). In 1800, however, he was granted no sittings by Napoleon, who is reported to have declared:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
An introduction to energy resources
Nature & Environment

An introduction to energy resources

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence. Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course: The content acknowledged below is Proprietary (see terms and conditions) and is used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons licence ). Figure 1.2 National Railway Museum/Science and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Watching the weather
Nature & Environment

Watching the weather

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is proprietary, used under licence and not subject to Creative Commons licensing. See terms and conditions. Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following: Figure 1: © Royal Meteorological Society; Figure 2: Realimage/Alamy; Figures 3, 14: courtesy NOAA; Figure 4: ©...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs