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Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...students received a training which meant they never played, studied, or sometimes even heard a single piece of music by a woman as part of their musical education. Absence is a powerful teaching tool. The absence of women composers from the canon and musical education has caused the ongoing absence of women from the performing repertoire today. These are the historical...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Metals in medicine
Science, Maths & Technology

Metals in medicine

...become some of the most important weapons in our fight against disease. When considering drugs used for the treatment of disease, your first thoughts might lean towards treatments involving organic compounds. But metals and their compounds have been used for medical applications since ancient times. The use of metal-containing drugs is a wide-ranging, exciting and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...become a central concept in mental health policies and practice, particularly since the implementation of community care in the early 1990s. Community care policies have been highlighted both by the media and by government as a failure, partly because they have failed to provide service users/survivors with the support they need in the community. However, they are also...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introducing Homer's Iliad
History & The Arts

Introducing Homer's Iliad

...become the prey of dogs and all kinds of birds; and the plan of Zeus was fulfilled. Sing from the time the two men were first divided in strife— Atreus’ son, lord of men, and glorious Achilles. Glossary Achaeans: one of the words used by Homer to describe the Greeks. Hades: the Underworld; also used of the god of the Underworld. Atreus’ son: Agamemnon, leader of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Physical activity: a family affair
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity: a family affair

...become socially and politically diversified in recent years. Changes in demographic structures and patterns of family life mean that ‘parent’ is now applied to a wealth of living arrangements and adult responsibilities vis-à-vis children. For the purposes of this review ‘parent’ will be used as a generic term for any adult with de facto responsibility for the...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...become especially advantageous with the rise of social media, and many individuals have become very wealthy by sharing their endorsements with their followers. Kylie Jenner can earn more than $1 million per sponsored Instagram post. Indeed, for many younger consumers, online ‘influencers’ are becoming a more trusted source than the celebrities of film, television and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Cell signalling
Science, Maths & Technology

Cell signalling

...become either further tyrosine phosphorylated (characterized by the enlarged bands in treated cells (bottom two arrows)) or newly phosphorylated (top three arrows), the effect mostly wearing off within an hour. SCF binds to a receptor tyrosine kinase called ‘c-Kit’, which is probably both directly and indirectly responsible for the phosphorylations seen here. (Data...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
White dwarfs and neutron stars
Science, Maths & Technology

White dwarfs and neutron stars

...become high enough for nuclear fusion to be initiated in their cores. At this point, the clouds stop contracting further and are maintained in hydrostatic equilibrium with a balance between the inward force of gravity and the outward force due to their internal pressure. Stars are typically initially composed of about 75% hydrogen and 25% helium, with small traces of...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs