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Citizen science and global biodiversity Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and global biodiversity

...Thinking about your response in Activity 1, how many of these reflect your own interest in citizen science? [Diferent word design] Figure 9 Word cloud You will have other opportunities to explore iSpot and learn more about the website and how it works as the course progresses. So you can leave it for now and move on to the next section...Week 1: What is citizen science?:...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...think about ‘treatment escalation plans’ that indicate a range of treatment decisions and encourage those caring for the patient to continue routine care as appropriate. The sociologist, Kellehear (2007) points out that dying does not take place in a social and physical vacuum. For example, it has implications for the way in which medicalised dying is managed. When...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Studying mammals: The social climbers
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The social climbers

...think biologists use to describe the visual system in Old World monkeys, apes and humans? Answer Trichromatic, because it involves three light-detecting pigments. Trichromatic vision evolved convergently in only two genera of New World monkeys: howler monkeys and spider monkeys. As discussed in LoM pp. 248 and 255, any ancestral monkeys that were able to detect ripe fruit...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Looking at, describing and identifying objects
History & The Arts

Looking at, describing and identifying objects

...think might be related to its use? Is there any evidence of damage or wear on the surfaces? [Described image] Figure 3 An object from the British Museum, ivory, length 4.7cm, depth 4cm. British Museum, London, 2008,3007.8. Photo: © The Trustees of the British Museum Discussion There is not much to go on. The object is small – it could fit into a hand. It is intricately...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Understanding Alice
History & The Arts

Understanding Alice

...thinking about the two sides of the author of the Alice books. It is easy to assume that Charles Dodgson fascination with the kind of logic behind puzzles was closely related to his professional life as a mathematician. Thinking again about the personal nature of Alice and Dodgson’s propensity to conceal insider references behind disguises however, suggests other...
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Article 10 mins
Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life
History & The Arts

Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life

...think farther. Or, when I thought of the education of my children, I said to myself: ‘Why?’ Or, reflecting on the manner in which the masses might obtain their welfare, I suddenly said to myself: ‘What is that to me?’ Or, thinking of the fame which my works would get me, I said to myself: ‘All right, you will be more famous than Gógol, Pushkin, Shakespeare,...
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Article 15 mins
PY Gerbeau on the business of football
Money & Business

PY Gerbeau on the business of football

...thinking it's a business then that is the first big mistake, and I would say don't do it. Football is a hobby, it's not about making money . So unless there are ways of turning that round, my advice to other businessmen is don't get involved. I took over a club that was eighteen million pounds in debt – it was madness. AND THAT IS AN HONEST ANSWER! It had no proper home...
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Article 15 mins
Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary

...think might be celebrating the traditional domestic role of the Victorian woman. Also, see if you can identify any aspects that suggest that the dead mother has unusual powers that are more disturbing or transgressive. You may have found something like the following: The ghostly mother who visits her children is clearly a gentle and nurturing figure who ‘rains down soft...
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Article 5 mins