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The search for water on Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

The search for water on Mars

...project this onto the night sky. The Moon can also be used to help you. It never strays more than 5° to either side of the ecliptic during the course of each month. Remember that the ecliptic will change throughout the year and that the night sky looks different in the Northern and Southern hemispheres. Planets usually look bigger than stars, and don’t appear to...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...managers at some large vertical-drinking pubs were reportedly offered bonuses of up to £20,000 if they used sales techniques – upselling singles to doubles, for instance – to exceed revenue targets. All this was happening as the real cost of purchasing alcohol, allowing for inflation and changes in disposable income, fell every year from 1984 to 2007. As one liver...
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Article 10 mins
Social construction and social constructionism
Society, Politics & Law

Social construction and social constructionism

...manages successfully to bring up especially her boy children and handle some form of paid employment, is valued more highly in policy terms than the single mother who may be recognised but who some way is not quite of the same order. So this then valuing of the categories leads to some degree of hierarchical ordering. There's a way in which you can see tiers of groups of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury
Education & Development

‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury

...Holder, A. M. B., Nadal, K. L. and Esquilin, M. (2007) ‘Racial microaggressions in everyday life: Implications for clinical practice’. American Psychologist, 62(4). https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.62.4.271 Williams, M. T. (2020) ‘How Microaggressions Are Harmful’. Managing Microaggressions, pp. 43–56. https://doi.org/10.1093/MED-PSYCH/9780190875237.003.0003...
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Article 5 mins
Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...managing to do that and a huge credit to them. However, that whole idea that you just have to make healthy choices is dependent on all of those different assets and resources being in place. And, at the end of the day, it relies on us as consumers or children as consumers doing all of the heavy lifting. AMANDINE GARDE States have an obligation to ensure that children's...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...project grew in the making, and the book when it appeared was a substantial one of 491 pages. It has a somewhat rambling style: Wilberforce was prone to write as he talked, offering much eloquent rhetoric and lively insight, but he had neither the time nor the inclination for systematic and tightly structured thinking. Wilberforce’s underlying concern was to communicate...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...project behind the body and provide extra propulsion in association with a sideways swimming motion. The shorter front flippers are used for steering in the water and for pulling the body along on land. [Described image] Figure 6 (a) Sea lions, Zalophus wollebaeki; (b) Fur seal, Arctocephalus galapagoensis Fur seals and sea lions use longer front flippers to ‘fly’...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
An introduction to geology
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to geology

...manage the oil price. [Described image] Figure 3.15 Graph showing oil price per barrel ($) annually from 1970 to 2014, and major events that impacted on oil production The oil that is ‘easy’ to find and extract is also beginning to dwindle. As you learned at the start of this week, early oil discoveries were from places where oil was seeping out of the ground. Days of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs