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Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor

...family Trochilidae) studied to date, torpor, if it occurs, takes place on a daily (or more usually nightly) basis. They are able to re-warm themselves independently of T a and show an increased thermogenesis if T a falls below 18° C during the time when the bird is not searching for food. The tiny rufous hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus; Figure 3), weighing only 3.0–5.5...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...family members who were, or had been, migrant workers in large Indonesian and south-east Asian cities, or crewing on international merchant ships. It was significant, therefore, that most migrant workers would return home permanently and not think about settling elsewhere, even though island life held so many challenges and uncertainties, and for most, returning meant a...
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Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...family’s home in the early seventies, my father read The Club of Rome, Limits to Growth, and the fear that we are going to run out of energy was one of the big features of that report and in ’73 it then became almost a reality in Germany and I think in Europe as a whole, when the oil boycott kicked in. And I can remember we could play on the motorways because on...
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Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...family, the counterculture reproduced traditional (even conservative) positions for women, as their roles – like their mothers and grandmothers before them – were to provide unpaid domestic and sexual labour: cooking, cleaning, caring for the children, and sleeping with the men. As such, men set the agenda of the counterculture, while women tended to occupy more...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Introduction to operations management
Money & Business

Introduction to operations management

...families have been a part of Grand Isle’s makeup. People come down on the weekend. And if they all stopped coming because of the oil spill, I mean, the island would just dry up. If you’re a tourist town, you have to have tourists. Subsequently, it’s coming back as the word gets out that we’re OK and viable and the beach is good. [MUSIC PLAYING] MARLENE CHAPPELL:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis
Society, Politics & Law

Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis

...history, and internal dynamic, will, I am sure, constrain a victorious Jeremy Corbyn in a manner alien to Syriza. Turning to the first-past-the-post system, had it applied here in Greece, it would have given our party a crushing majority in parliament. It is, therefore, untrue that Labour’s electoral failures are due to this system. Lastly, allow me to urge caution with...
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Article 10 mins
Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?

...history and the second highest viewed event of 2019. [woman in black tank top and black leggings doing yoga] While the profile of and demand for women’s sport has risen, stark gender inequalities still prevail in terms of investment, sponsorship, media coverage and pay (Farrer & Co, 2019), but also more broadly in society, in terms of participation in grass roots sport....
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Article 15 mins
Evolutionary tree of mammals
Nature & Environment

Evolutionary tree of mammals

...history understand how the structure of DNA can help us to detect differences between different species apply the techniques of DNA analysis to work out which mammals are most closely related to each other appreciate the importance of bringing together evidence from different sources...School activities: Evolutionary tree of mammals: 1 Natural groups - Darwin made...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs