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Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...working person, you shouldn’t spend more than you, yeah, earn. But when it comes to doing a budget, many people approach it the wrong way. Two big tips to start. First of all, don’t just look at one month’s finances. That will cause a lot of mistakes. We don’t spend by the month. Sometimes we spend by the week, sometimes the month, sometimes the year. We might buy...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Climate change: island life in a volatile world
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change: island life in a volatile world

...work together. In Section 3, we will consider the long and rich story of human involvement in the making of islands, including the often awe-inspiring journeys that island settlers have undertaken to arrive at their new homelands far out in the ocean. Humans, however, are not alone in settling islands, and they are rarely, if ever, the first to arrive. Therefore, in this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...works. We are currently working to update this....The Ancient Olympics: Bridging past and present: Introduction - Our modern Games and the Ancient Olympics are different in many respects – today’s Olympics are strictly secular, whilst the Ancient Olympics were steeped in religion; our modern Games have 42 disciplines, compared to the six of the Classical world; today,...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes

...working on a breastfeeding app, where women can report places they feel happy about breastfeeding in public in the city. And another project, for example, has the initiated by a campaigner around the rights of visually impaired people to use cities easily. And she wants to get beacons embedded in the urban environment, particularly Milton Keynes' shopping centre, to...
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Video 10 mins
Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?
OpenLearn Ireland

Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?

...work colleagues and friends can result in ‘fat’ shaming ourselves. In fact, the desire to be thinner will result in many of us engaging in a diet at some point in our lifetime. Despite there being a lack of evidence to support the effectiveness of diets, one in four will diet in their lifetime. According to a poll conducted in the UK, the average person will diet 126...
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Article 5 mins
The Science of Fear
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Science of Fear

...work this out, but by having a go, we may begin to understand more about our own fears and phobias. Darwin and Fear In his wonderful book 'The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals', Charles Darwin tries to explain the evolutionary advantage of the reactions we have to various situations, like those of grief, anxiety, helplessness, surprise and fear. He compares...
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Article 15 mins
Sharpening Your Critical Thinking
History & The Arts

Sharpening Your Critical Thinking

...work that out. We might survey tennis experts, or the general public, we might discuss what counts as gracefulness in tennis and examine the footage ourselves, or something else. Perhaps, when we do the research, we’ll decide that the premise is true; or perhaps we won’t. It isn’t obvious whether Your Argument passes the first test. In contrast, My Argument does...
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Article 5 mins
Religion and Violence
History & The Arts

Religion and Violence

...work, such as national and cultural tensions, and economic challenges and inequalities. We should avoid using religion to explain too much. 3. Do not assume clear-cut links between texts, beliefs and actions. All major religions have texts and traditions that justify or even require violence under certain circumstances and conditions, but these are carefully circumscribed...
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Video 5 mins