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Galaxies, stars and planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Galaxies, stars and planets

...centre of a galaxy. This section introduces some key ideas about orbital motion. People sometimes wonder what keeps the Moon in orbit and stops it crashing to the Earth. This is a perfectly reasonable question to ask. If you lift an object above the Earth's surface and let it go, it falls to the ground, pulled down by the force of gravity. Why doesn't this happen to the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...research on the financial behaviour and decision making of both professionals, such as investment bank traders, and the rest of us in the everyday world. Organisational behaviour, at least as I practise it, draws on insights from psychology, sociology, and economics, and sometimes from wider disciplines, such as philosophy and history, to understand the behaviour of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
Education & Development

Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?

...research to inform personal initial views on openness; integrate decisions regarding online privacy and identity into choices to be more open or closed when working online; be aware of online networking and how such activity may develop and be visualised...Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?: 1 Investigating an open landscape - In this opening section Anne...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Understanding organisational value
Money & Business

Understanding organisational value

...centred’ and challenge traditional economic value assumptions...Understanding organisational value: 1 Understanding organisational value - Creating value is an important part of any and all organisations. You will learn the definition of organisational value and its relationship to organisational values, as you study this course. You will start by examining your...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...children. He wrote me a letter the Christmas after the surgery, and he said 'My father sent me two presents this year. First, a motorised CD rack from the Sharper Image that I didn't really need, but I knew he was giving it to me to celebrate the fact that I'm living on my own and have a job I seem to love. And the other present was a photo of my grandmother, who...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
The obscure history of the ‘virgin’s disease’ that could be cured with sex
History & The Arts

The obscure history of the ‘virgin’s disease’ that could be cured with sex

...children. A few writers thought that even particularly effeminate men could succumb to the disease. But for most the experience of sexual intercourse did the job. Or, to look at it another way, if this set of common symptoms appeared in a girl of marriageable age, the only diagnosis possible was “the disease of virgins”. [The Conversation] Transcript Helen King,...
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Swept away: Brighton's Chain Pier collapses during a storm
History & The Arts

Swept away: Brighton's Chain Pier collapses during a storm

...children and, indeed, persons of all ages, were to be seen throughout the day swarming to the foreshore and carrying away the more portable fragments of timber that the sea cast up. Scores upon scores of persons also were seeking for nails and small portions of wood to retain as mementoes of the The Chain Pier. - originally published by The Leeds Mercury, 7th December 1896...
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Article 5 mins
How have family budgets changed in sixty years?
Money & Business

How have family budgets changed in sixty years?

...children down to the age of seven how they spend their pocket money! We realise that this is more of a commitment than any of our other household surveys, which like the LCFS are all voluntary, which is why we continue to be indebted to all the members of the 375,000 households that have taken part. This article was originally published on the ONS website under an Open...
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