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Does counting calories work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does counting calories work?

...technology director for a textbook publisher. And he’s 5’10” and 245 lbs – which means he is classed as obese. In an effort to lose weight, Nash uses an app to record the calories he consumes and a Fitbit band to track the energy he expends. These tools bring an apparent precision: Nash can quantify the calories in each cracker crunched and stair climbed. But when...
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Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?

...technological developments (genetics), a photogenic animal (Dobermans), a race (with Yanagisawa), it looks like science (optogenetics) and there’s a still-higher purpose (sleep and the brain). It is elements like these that can transform everyday scientific events into a compelling cultural narrative, says Stephen Casper, a historian of neurology at Clarkson University...
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What is a metal?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a metal?

...technologies and silver is often used in electronic circuitry. Aluminium has become one of the most commonly used metals in aircraft manufacturing, shipbuilding and the train and automobile industry. Aluminium is a resistant and light material that reduces the weight of transport vehicles, minimising their fuel consumption. In the case of the food and drink industry,...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Investigating psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating psychology

...technological advances, new laws and ethical considerations. Activity 3 Open the CHIP resource in a new tab in your web browser. Begin by clicking ‘pin all’ for methods and return to the star field so you can see them all. Match each of the options with its related terms: Projective testing Queer history/theory IQ testing Alfred Binet Introspection Wilhelm Wundt...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Why maps are made
Society, Politics & Law

Why maps are made

...technology, imagination and skill and, above all, decisions. In order to bring a map alive, therefore, we need to know about the codes and conventions that lie behind its production and, also, to understand both the obvious messages and the underlying, often hidden, meanings. Fundamental to producing a map is the relationship between data (the information you wish to...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...education, of the rise of a young man from his rural roots towards metropolitan sophistication, then it also appears to undermine this very familiar Victorian tale. As Kate Flint says in the introduction (p.xvii), Pip's Bildungsroman is the ‘antithesis’ of those well-known and widely read contemporary chronicles of humble perseverance, such as Samuel Smiles's...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It
History & The Arts

Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It

...educational practice, as Touchstone comically riffs on the syllogism, the standard method of argumentation used in classical logic: because Corin hasn’t been at court, he has never seen good manners, so it follows that ‘thy manners must be wicked, and wickedness is sin, and sin is damnation’. This sounds plausible enough, yet as Corin puts it in a balanced sentence...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...education and social services, barely existed. Today, along with defence, these are the largest areas of state policy and provision, even after privatisations (the transfer of state bodies and functions to the private sector) and the rise of the market principle from the mid 1980s across Western and a number of other democracies. The economic and social role of the state...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs