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Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Science, Maths & Technology

Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere

...communities around 'black smoker' hydrothermal vents on the Earth's ocean floor. In 2010: Odyssey Two (published in 1982 as a sequel to the more famous 2001: A Space Odyssey) he imagined an explorer's findings on the floor of the Europan ocean: …the first oasis filled him with delighted surprise. It extended for almost a kilometre around a tangled mass of pipes and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 17 hrs
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...communicate. I'm looking right into your eyes now obviously. That's what we do when we talk to each other. So what about the eyes? How can you pick up your eyes in modern terms, if they’re looking a bit faded after a bad night out? You’ve got your post-party pick-me-ups there. What do you do to make your eyes look better? MATHIJS LUCASSEN Yeah, well, you’ve got the...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
The restless Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

The restless Universe

...community, although this was far from being true. In 1906, he committed suicide. If despair over rejection, or frustration over being unable to prove his point, were contributing factors the irony would be great indeed. Soon after Boltzmann's death, clinching evidence was found for atoms, and few would ever doubt their existence again...The restless Universe: 2.4.1...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It
History & The Arts

Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It

...communication, Shakespeare implies, never take place in a social vacuum...Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It: 4 The play in performance - In the final activity in this course, you will address the issue of performance. It has often been argued in the past that Shakespeare’s plays should ideally be experienced on the stage rather than on the page, that they are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology

...communicate their findings – to other scientists who will build on this work to extend knowledge still further, to technologists who will devise practical applications for scientific knowledge, and to the general public to raise awareness of scientific discovery. The way in which science is communicated to interested parties is especially important because scientific...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...communication’ (e.g. not written down anywhere), what the discussion was on and the date. For example: S250 Northwest study group (2008) Discussions on the human genome, 4 June 2008 (pers. comm.). ‘During an online discussion, Mark Jones (S250 general forum, 4 June 2008) described …’ For this type of online citation you should give the author’s name, the forum...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...community. The case study you will see in the next section aims to exemplify the relationship between Orthodox iconography and the Bible...Week 2: Examining the Byzantine icon: 1 ‘Reading’ an icon: Byzantine iconography and Gospel narrative - Watch the following video, in which Dr Angeliki Lymberopoulou examines a Cretan panel painting (icon), produced on the island...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...communities, people will no longer need to flee them in order to go live in a shack on the edge of the capital city. That’s been the prevailing pattern around the developing world for a long time, in part because those were the only places where you could electric hook-up, get any kind of power. But that’s no longer true and there’s a real possibility for equitable...
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