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Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease

...communication, illustrated by the nervous system; strength, illustrated by bone and cartilage. The relationship of the structure of a tissue to its function is very important for understanding a diagnosis of disease. For example, if heart muscle becomes expanded, it may be because the person has been training or it may be because their heart is overloaded and there is...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Energy in buildings
Nature & Environment

Energy in buildings

...communication and entertainment (and producing and studying material such as this course). The fourth bar of Figure 1 shows that over 2000 PJ of delivered energy were used for space heating (i.e. warming the internal spaces of buildings) and water heating. These applications only require low temperature heat (i.e. less than 70°C). Space heating is a prime target for...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...community and the media. It’s called tumour paint. Jim Olson remembers being ridiculed. It was 1989 and he was defending his PhD thesis, and the bank of University of Michigan professors asked what his next goal would be. “If we can bring radioactivity into these tumours for PET scanning, I would love to find a way to bring light into the cancer so that surgeons can...
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Article 5 mins
Paul Williams - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Paul Williams - Earth in Vision

...communicating science and that’s how I ended up in the BBC Natural History Unit. The role of wildlife filming in creating awareness of environmental issues I think most people’s awareness of natural history and conservation issues actually comes from appreciating the wonder of the world and wildlife. So series like Planet Earth, although it could be argued that Planet...
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Video 30 mins
Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?
Languages

Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?

...communicate with other groups – for trade, travel and so on – it would have been necessary for some members of a family or band to speak other tongues. We can get some sense of how prevalent multilingualism may have been from the few hunter-gatherer peoples who survive today. “If you look at modern hunter-gatherers, they are almost all multilingual,” says Thomas...
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Article 10 mins
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?

...community based activism with a commitment to electoral and parliamentary politics, a position not shared by the BSP and SLP. In this view, if the rent strike victory was the great achievement of Red Clyde perhaps the symbolic equivalent of Bloody Friday and George Square is St Enoch’s Square in November 1922 when, following the 1922 General Election, the ten newly...
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Article 20 mins
Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...community is still saying we should not proceed with the cloning of a human being at this time. In the case of the medical applications of cloning, we are talking about human lives at stake. We are talking about children with diabetes, people with Alzheimer’s disease and arthritis. In the case of reproductive cloning, maybe there's a childless couple, maybe the day...
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Article 30 mins
Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...communicator with the natural world; for once you saw ants crawling up Attenborough’s legs, you had a sense of how big things were, how wondrous things were. And they were very informative for me and, I think, actually for the rest of the world, because people like myself who already had a passion in animals, just fed that passion. I think it’s rather like an...
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