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Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga
History & The Arts

Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga

...circulating underneath and up through pipes in the wall. At Ephesus, then, as at Pompeii, the facilities and decoration of a house offered the owner a chance to demonstrate his wealth and “urbanitas” – his urban sophistication. But here domestic space is organised in a more irregular fashion: there are no axial plans and symmetrical vistas. This evidence suggests...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...circulates around each spoke and becomes turbulent (i.e. with a complex and erratic movement). This limitation moves the solution to a wheel design with four or five broad spokes. Since this is better manufactured in one piece, it requires a spoke that can take tensile and compressive (i.e. stretching and squeezing) loads. Something the modern day Olympians share with...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...circulation. The main function of ACTH is to signal to the adrenal glands to begin releasing corticosteroids into the blood. This system is called the HPA (hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal) axis (Figure 6). If the response is effective (that is, the stressor disappears, or after conscious reflection is judged not to be a danger after all) then body and mind calm down:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...circulated in the ancient world than you will have the time to delve into as part of this course. One example is the flood, which you learned was a key part of Ovid’s tale of how the world began. It was also a particularly frequent feature of these types of stories. It appears, for instance, in the stories from ancient Mesopotamia (the ancient region between the Tigris...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...circulated in draft form in order to identify and solve potential problems of implementation. At this stage, administrative aspects need to be considered. These may include financial aspects such as call-out and standby payments or special authority to incur expenditure without recourse to normal approval or tendering procedures. One key decision is to identify the...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...circulating libraries, promenading and ogling along the Parade, donkey-rides on the beach, balls and assemblies at the Old Ship and the Castle Inn, and the theatre, where you might have seen the celebrated actresses Mrs Siddons and Mrs Jordan. (The new Theatre Royal at Brighton was soon able to attract such London celebrity performers not just during the summer, when the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...circulate. The Cancer Research UK website has a good explanation of the situation concerning the plastic bottles. As you watch the video, focus on how important the numbers are to the story that the narrators are conveying. How do the narrators try to help the viewer to comprehend the numbers?...Week 1: Why does science need numbers?: 1.2 Reflecting on numbers - [This is...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...circulate with the test and then zoom out to see a whole country, what kinds of things do we learn? Well, one thing we've learned is that girls do better in reading than boys in every country that participates in PISA. And among the countries that are members of the OECD, girls do so much better than boys in reading, it's as if they had gone through an additional year of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs