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What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...become when being read to and you may well have had a similar experience yourself, when reading a great book on the beach in your holidays for example. In such instances you can become so immersed in the story and its characters that it can feel like you are wrenched from the world in the story when something drags you back to reality. [This image shows a person in a...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...become a foundational piece of scholarship within feminist musicology. In the first section of the article, Citron contends that for any work to stand a chance of being included in the canon it has to be written, published, and circulated, reach public consciousness through a first performance, remain there through repeat performances, and receive a positive review early...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...become involved. You will begin by noting what you understand currently about some of the common social work tasks. Activity 3 Social work tasks From your current experience or knowledge, even if you have very limited direct experience to date, list some tasks that social workers and/or staff working in a social work setting might undertake. Note: five social work tasks...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Studying mammals: A winning design
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: A winning design

...becomes clearer if we work out what percentage its weight is of the mother's weight. But to compare 'like with like' we first need to express each measurement in the same units, in this case grams (g). 8.0 kg is equivalent to (8.0 × 1000) grams = 8000 g, so 0.5 g as a percentage of 8000 g is (0.5/8000) × 100%. This calculation comes to a little over 0.006% - compared to...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...become clearer as we progress). Whereas Soane's house celebrates the architect as sole creator, the Pavilion is much more typically the product of a collaboration between architect and client. While Soane was and is the architect's architect, an intellectual and an academic, distinguished, original and serious, Nash was the darling of fashionable aristocratic society,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...becomes 92.3 × 109, which is written in formal scientific notation as 9.23 × 1010.) The UK population in 2010 was approximately 62 million. Express the UK population in scientific notation. 6.2 × 107 people (one million = 1 000 000 = 1 × 106) Setting out your calculation using scientific notation, calculate the number of litres of oil consumed on average by each UK...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...become a lead exporter in China’s large apple industry and is China’s largest regional exporter of apple juice. Though much of the restoration work in the Loess Plateau has been successful, some concerns remain. For example, Kathleen Buckingham of the World Resources Institute has raised the issues that the speed and scale of the project was possible only with low...
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The GOP tries to focus: A guide to the third debate
Society, Politics & Law

The GOP tries to focus: A guide to the third debate

...student debt and the expansion of online courses and better links between high school, two-year, and four-year colleges to bring down the cost of higher education. These Republicans and their Democratic counterparts recognize they have to focus on the issues holding back working families from realizing their dreams. Senator Rubio said it most clearly: if we don’t...
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