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Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?

...managed to capture a female fly that had yet to lay her eggs – she was exactly what he needed to start a lab colony. At first, he raised his flies in his apartment, constructing cages out of window screens, duct tape and cardboard. As the numbers grew, he transferred the boxes to a spare closet near his lab at the University of California, Irvine. In 2004, the US Food...
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Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator
Languages

Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator

...management task: the caudate nucleus and the putamen. Neuroscientists already know that these structures play a role in other complex tasks, including learning and the planning and execution of movement. This means that there is no single brain centre devoted exclusively to the control of interpretation, say Hervais-Adelman and his colleagues. As with many other human...
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Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...Introduction - Do you want to get more out of drama? This course is designed to develop the analytical skills you need for a more in-depth study of literary plays. You will learn about dialogue, stage directions, blank verse, dramatic structure and conventions and aspects of performance. It's not necessary for you to have previously read any of the plays mentioned in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
A Europe of the Regions?
Society, Politics & Law

A Europe of the Regions?

...Introduction - This course discusses the future of Europe, and it looks particularly closely at what may happen to the smaller political units presently existing below the level of the nation-state. These include nation-regions like Scotland and Wales, larger entities like the German Länder, and smaller more recently created regions with less existing cultural unity....
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...Introduction - [Described image] Figure 1 Bottlenose dolphins Mammals come in a bewildering variety of shapes and sizes and yet all of the 4700 or so species have some characteristics in common. Indeed, it’s the existence of these common features that justifies the inclusion of all such diverse types within the single taxonomic group (or class) called the Mammalia....
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...Introduction - ‘Doing research’ is a process. It is a flexible one that is likely to be reworked, modified, changed and revised along the way. It usually, but not exclusively, starts with a problem which raises questions that then might then be revised and refined, or even discarded. Any process of investigation is complex and any one stage might expose further...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...Introduction - This course will introduce you to the wide-ranging types of mammals that live in the trees. You will learn how they thrive in this demanding environment, with the help of a range of intriguing adaptations related to their unusual life-styles. This is the eighth in a series of units about studying mammals. To get the most from these units, you will need...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Algorithmic Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Algorithmic Design

...Introduction - Unleash your creativity and discover the fun of designing with code in this free OpenLearn course, Algorithmic Design. In this hands-on course, you’ll learn to think algorithmically and explore the aesthetics of code through playful experimentation with JavaScript and the p5.js library. You’ll engage with design ideas such as repetition, modularity, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs