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Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...migrated from ‘Greater Scythia by the Tyrrhene Sea and the Pillars of Hercules’ would be questioned by modern historians, their sense of Scottish identity is manifest in their affirmation that the ‘Britons they first drove out, the Picts they utterly destroyed, and, even though very often assailed by the Norwegians, the Danes and the English, they took possession of...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor

...migrate to another habitat for the duration of an inhospitably cold season. This strategy is possible if the animal has sufficient mobility to leave the extreme latitudes as the available food dwindles. Many birds and bats adopt this strategy. To endure the periods of low temperature extremes in the chosen habitat at low metabolic cost – by reducing T b, locomotion and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Cell signalling
Science, Maths & Technology

Cell signalling

...migration, death or differentiation...Cell signalling: 1.2.2 Cell–cell signalling via secreted molecules - Extracellular signalling molecules are all fairly small, and are easily conveyed to the site of action; they are structurally very diverse. The classification and individual names of these mainly water-soluble mediators often reflect their first discovered action...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...migration to another body than that we cease to be embodied at all. This is true even if the new body is an animal's, since animals’ bodies bear many similarities to our own. [Figure 5] Figure 5 Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Paralytic, 1763, oil on canvas, 115.5 x 146 cm, The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Photo: Scala Metempsychosis (mentioned jestingly by Hume),...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...migration of populations from the countryside to the fast growing towns and cities where the factories and work were to be found. 'And what cities! … smoke hung over them and filth impregnated them, the elementary public services – water supply, sanitation, street-cleaning, open spaces, and so on – could not keep pace with the mass migration of men into the cities,...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Primary science: supporting children’s learning
Education & Development

Primary science: supporting children’s learning

...migration if you are a birdwatcher). Some people associate science with high-level specialists and feel that science does not actively influence their lives (Metcalfe, 2014). Others may have been put off by lacklustre teaching that failed to engage them or help them to see the relevance of science to their lives and interests. When asked to describe ‘a scientist’,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...migration and conversion. We had Islam in southern Spain several hundred years ago. We had an Ottoman presence in south-eastern Europe until the very beginning of this century. And we also in the post-war period have a lot of inward migration into western European states like Belgium, like the Netherlands, like France and Great Britain form colonial powers and therefore I...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Studying mammals: A winning design
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: A winning design

...migrating to the upper part of the cell. The fat droplet, itself wrapped in a membrane, merges with the cell membrane and is 'budded-off' - fat droplet plus its enveloping membrane - into the lumen. From (d) you'll appreciate how each such structure resembles a decorative ring, with a fragment (of cell) often protruding from the central sphere - hence the name 'signet'....
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs