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A tour of the cell
Science, Maths & Technology

A tour of the cell

...communication between cells. Connective tissues have a relatively large proportion of extracellular material which determines their properties: for example, the rigidity of bone is due to an extracellular matrix composed of tough collagen fibres that is hardened by mineral salts (see below). In most animal tissues, the extracellular matrix is secreted mainly by cells...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

...community, my spiritual teacher. It just hit me - a ton of bricks. I finally had to face the truth of the incredible series of selfish decisions I'd been making for years. Justifying it in all kinds of ways. Thinking I was basically a good person. Thinking I love my son. All of which on some level was true, but it certainly wasn't playing out in my actions. So I had to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Icarus: entering the world of myth
History & The Arts

Icarus: entering the world of myth

...communicate the universality of human emotions and suffering; at the same time, they often update the details for a new contemporary audience. For instance, Matisse’s painting Icarus is widely seen as an evocative image of twentieth-century warfare: the single red dot in the figure’s chest has been interpreted as ‘a modern pilot who has been shot down, and falls...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...oral tale or seventeenth-century chapbooks are no longer for children, and therefore do not fit into your idea of children’s literature, or you may feel that the study of electronic media is different from the study of printed texts, or you may feel that the printed book is really of little relevance to the modern child and that what we should be looking at is the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Astronomy with an online telescope Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy with an online telescope

...community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. Completing a course will require about 24 hours of study time. However, you can study the course at any time and at a pace to suit you. Badged courses are available on The Open University’s OpenLearn website and do not cost anything to study. They differ from...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?

...community right now: the role of the metabolism in cancer, for it turns out the tumour suppressor is a major player in this arena too. That the metabolism in cancer cells is highly abnormal is not a new discovery. In the 1920s, the German biologist and medic Otto Warburg noticed that cancer cells consume glucose at an enormous rate. He found that whereas most normal cells...
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Article 10 mins
Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision

...community is a very precious, symbiotic one that I personally spend an awful lot of time maintaining, and I would be a little bit worried that those same chimp images were played around with by some … anybody. So I think that’s why it’s more of a … it’s one of these things which is a brilliant idea but it’s a practical minefield. But then all good ideas are...
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Video 15 mins
General Election 2015 - 79Rewind
Society, Politics & Law

General Election 2015 - 79Rewind

...communication. Quentin Letts: QUENTIN LETTS Well I think the problem with this whole issue is that we, the voters, are terrible hypocrites. We say we don’t like actors in our politics, and yet, when the politicians don’t act, they don’t get so many votes. So we as an electorate have to sort out our attitude to this. And I think the honest answer is that they need to...
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Activity 5 mins