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Vikings - just misunderstood?
History & The Arts

Vikings - just misunderstood?

...becoming more joined-up during this period than at any time since the heyday of the Roman Empire. Trade fostered international links across the North Sea, Baltic and beyond, and similar developments were happening as far afield as the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. This was a period in which people began to live and work in entirely new ways, and technological change was...
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Properties of gold
Science, Maths & Technology

Properties of gold

...become. By the time it reaches the sea, any gold is in the form of very small specks or grains. You’re more likely to find gold deposits on the inside of bends in a river, where the water flows less quickly. As the water slows down, the heavy gold particles fall through the gravel on the riverbed, and work their way down through the soil underneath, eventually settling...
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How radical was Martin Luther King?
History & The Arts

How radical was Martin Luther King?

...becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read ‘Vietnam.’ It can never be saved so long as it destroys the hopes of men the world over.” He angered crucial allies. King and President Lyndon Johnson, for example, had been allies in achieving significant legislative victories in 1964 and 1965. Johnson’s “Great Society” launched a series of initiatives...
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Thrill seeking and risk taking - what has made extreme sports into a worldwide phenomenon?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Thrill seeking and risk taking - what has made extreme sports into a worldwide phenomenon?

...become safer the rise in the number of high-risk activities has occurred as a means of compensation? People want more from life and, as Barlow et al (2015) recognises, often crave life in a pure, simple and sharp form. Extreme sports allow people a return to nature, an antidote to the over-sanitised World we live, whether riding the waves or scaling a rock face these...
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Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future
Nature & Environment

Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future

...become increasingly clearer, especially with studies on climate change – human management of the environment is shaping the world around us. Our environmental challenges Our world is facing major environmental challenges, including deforestation, pollution, loss of biodiversity and the chaos of climate shocks. The alarm has been raised and many scientists, educators and...
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Opening up history: religion and politics in the Elizabethan era
History & The Arts

Opening up history: religion and politics in the Elizabethan era

...become familiar with in this obscure work, behaving more or less as I’d guessed. 11. What advice would you give to those who want to study history, whether as part of a degree at university, or beyond a university context? For me, the essence of being a historian (as opposed to simply reading about history) is being critical: refusing to take other people’s word for...
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George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...become a highly symbolic cause celebre for idealistic left-wing sympathisers from outside Spain. Orwell travelled to Spain as a journalist at the end of 1936. On arrival, however, he enlisted in an Independent Labour Party Republican unit and was sent to fight on the relatively quiet Aragon Front. He fought in Spain for six months before being badly wounded by a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...become ever more important. On top of this, the reasons behind attacks are becoming more diverse – ranging from financial gains and retaliations through to influencing political campaigns and disabling infrastructure. Anyone can be a victim of cyber-attacks. In this course, you’ll look at cyber security from the perspective of a computer user. Through a set of case...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs