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Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...Introduction - This free course, Questioning crime: social harms and global issues, introduces the concept of social harm as an alternative to the more familiar concept of ‘crime’ as a basis for studying aspects of the social world which are damaging or harmful. It moves beyond the assumption that actions which are against the law are necessarily the most harmful...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...Introduction - Reading as a form of entertainment has a long history. Not only does a good book entertain us though, it can be an activity that brings us comfort. In this course you will discover that people have often turned to reading as one way of meeting times of difficulty across history, stretching back from the present day’s pandemic to, for example, the...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...manages communications for Apopo, tells a story: “I was just in Angola. There’s an area next to a school where a landmine once went off. I was talking to the headmaster and he said if the boys kicked a football into this area they would draw straws as to who would go and get it. None of the boys had been hurt. But when the rats searched the area, they found another...
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Article 5 mins
Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...manages hospitals, clinics and emergency rooms across Detroit, Ed Coffey, then the CEO of its Behavioural Health Services, remembers discussing Crossing the Quality Chasm, a report published that year by the US Institute of Medicine that called for sweeping healthcare reforms. The report had triggered a debate about the idea of ‘perfect care’, and Coffey wondered what...
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Article 15 mins
Exploring Religion in London
History & The Arts

Exploring Religion in London

...manager, Maurice Bitton. Transcript Exploring Religion in London Bevis Marks Synagogue Narrator: Welcome to the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, in Bevis Marks here in the centre of London. The oldest surviving synagogue in this country, that is still in daily use. Our synagogue was built in 1701. It was built during the rebuilding of the city of London, after the great...
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Video 30 mins
Surfaces
Science, Maths & Technology

Surfaces

...Introduction - This course is concerned with a special class of topological spaces called surfaces. Common examples of surfaces are the sphere and the cylinder; less common, though probably still familiar, are the torus and the Möbius band. Other surfaces, such as the projective plane and the Klein bottle, may be unfamiliar, but they crop up in many places in...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Numbers, units and arithmetic
Science, Maths & Technology

Numbers, units and arithmetic

...Introduction - This free course, Numbers, units and arithmetic, will help you to revise whole numbers, decimals and fractions, both positive and negative. You should know when and how to add, subtract, multiply and divide. Although you may have a calculator, you still need to do simple calculations in your head or on paper. Such calculations could be to estimate the size...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The gut microbiome: balancing the body
Science, Maths & Technology

The gut microbiome: balancing the body

...Introduction - Did you know that there are an estimated 37 trillion human cells in the adult body? In fact, there are only an estimated 100-400 billion stars in the Milky Way, so there are more cells in the human body than there are stars in the Galaxy! In addition to human cells, there are also another 30-100 trillion non-human cells, such as bacteria, archaea and fungi,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs