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Diary of a Mars operations day
Science, Maths & Technology

Diary of a Mars operations day

...history, the fate of its water, and the environments that it hosted 4 billion years ago. As I walk back into the warmth of my house, I think about the fact that we soon may have three active rovers and an active lander on Mars – at the same time. And what they might find… This article was originally published on the AstrobiologyOU website. Banner image credit:...
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Article 15 mins
“Beagán ar bheagán: Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth” - Athbheochan na Gaeilge ó thuaidh i ré Chomhaontú Aoine an Chéasta
Languages

“Beagán ar bheagán: Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth” - Athbheochan na Gaeilge ó thuaidh i ré Chomhaontú Aoine an Chéasta

...history and recent revival...Bhí sé aitheanta i measc mór-aidhmeanna Chomhaontú Aoine an Chéasta ‘ré úr comhionannais’ a thabhairt isteach do phobail ó thuaidh, agus mar chuid de sin tugadh coimitmintí sonracha do phobal na Gaeilge sa chomhaontú féin. Chun an fhorbairt atá déanta ó 1998 ar aghaidh a mheas agus a scagadh mar is cuí, áfach, de réir na...
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Article 5 mins
Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...family Bovidae smaller than sheep or goats, but some deer (family Cervidae) are less than a tenth of that size as adults. Some tropical deer, notably species of mouse deer Tragulus, weigh only 1–2 kg, well within the range of size of mammals that can become torpid, but none is known to do so. One reason might be that substantial changes in body temperature would kill...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...history of humanity, has ever uttered this exact sentence before me today. Yet we all understand what it means. We must therefore all possess some machinery for making up new meanings out of smaller parts in real time. This is what is known as the generative capacity of language; the ability to make new meanings by recombining units. The vervet system is not generative,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...family life, are viewed as beyond the direct control of the state and its institutions. (Source: adapted from Bromley, 2001) Nation states have long been viewed as the basic building block of authoritative decision making. If politics is considered as decision making at the level of society as a whole – the activity that delivers collectively binding decisions for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
English: skills for learning Badge icon
Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...family’. These are all the words that have a similar form and meaning. The word family of strategy includes: strategic, strategies, strategically, strategist, and strategists. These words allow you to express an idea in a different way, perhaps when paraphrasing. For example, the phrase ‘adopt a strategy to deal with a problem’ can be turned to ‘deal with a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Modern slavery
Society, Politics & Law

Modern slavery

...families and friends. They could be doctors, actors, teachers, bookkeepers, bankers, agents, farmers, actuaries, philosophers. But they did not have the legal standing of free people: the capacity to have rights in law, to own property, to make contracts, marriages and wills, to sue and be sued in the civil courts. (Allain, 2012, p. 13) Slavery continued in the Middle...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Human rights and law
Society, Politics & Law

Human rights and law

...family life, home and correspondence 9 Freedom of thought, conscience and religion 10 Freedom to receive and impart ideas and information 11 Freedom of association 12 Right to marry and found a family 13 Right to an effective remedy 14 Right to enjoy other Convention rights without discrimination Protocol 1 Article 1* Right to peaceful enjoyment of possessions Protocol 1...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs