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Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess

...trouble, they make you ill, may lower your status. And what those things are can vary tremendously from one society to another but there is one constant in most human societies - we all have a lot of symbolic thought associated with the body and in most societies a lot is made out of the things that the body expels or that you put into the body. And these are the things...
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Article 30 mins
Introducing public health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing public health

...trouble and asthma. But I try not to get me down, so I try and get on as best I can. James Johnson Good health, for me, enables me to be the most productive, connective, useful version of myself that I can be. I notice if my diet is out of balance or if exercise is out of balance that there is an impact on things like energy levels and concentration … so keeping that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Discovering music: the blues
History & The Arts

Discovering music: the blues

...trouble with early recording is that the technology was very limited, and therefore the musicians were constrained in what they could do in order to have a usable commercial recording. The musicians had to gather around a large horn microphone, often in unrealistic playing positions (see Figure 8), so what was recorded could not possibly reflect accurately what the live...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Employee engagement
Money & Business

Employee engagement

...trouble. Task B Now watch the following video where de Botton expands on his ideas about the role of work in society. If you are reading this course as an ebook, you can access this video here: Why do we have HR departments?: Alain de Botton Having watched the clip, reflect on the following questions: What are de Botton’s key points about changes in societal attitudes...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Leadership challenges in turbulent times
Money & Business

Leadership challenges in turbulent times

...trouble and may not survive at all. Example: Josef leads the contract negotiations for his small cleaning company. He is shocked to find that the overall value of the contract has reduced by 30%. He meets behind the scenes with the contract holder and convinces him to award his company 70% of the total contract, even though it was previously shared 50/50 with a competitor...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?
Education & Development

Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?

...trouble generalising from symbolic representations to the real world. Preschool-aged children need to interact with actual physical objects in order to develop their parietal cortex, which controls visual–spatial processing and helps develop maths and science skills in later life. To address this, some app developers are introducing companion toys that can be...
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Article 5 mins
Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences

...trouble with highlighting is that you are not reworking the material in the way we have been talking about and it is a very passive way of doing it. So I don’t want to say never use a highlighter. Sometimes I use it for things like when a text says, there are three main points here and I might highlight the bit that says firstly, secondly and finally or something like...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...trouble (often repeatedly) with the police. Such findings do not entirely fit with the idea of close social control through intensified policing of Victorian societies. There seems no doubt that, as Walton puts it, ‘the roots of most asylum committals clearly lay in domestic troubles, as families at the end of their tether sought succour even though it meant the Poor...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs