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Introducing mammals
Nature & Environment

Introducing mammals

...Introduction - Mammals come in a bewildering variety of shapes and sizes, and yet all species have some characteristics in common. Indeed, it’s the existence of these common features that justifies the inclusion of all such diverse types within the single taxonomic group (or class) called the Mammalia. This free course, Introducing mammals, offers a starting point if...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The use of force in international law
Society, Politics & Law

The use of force in international law

...introduction to one of the contentious topics in public international law: the use of force. In this course, you will explore international rules governing the use of force, including an introduction to the laws of war (International Humanitarian Law). Finally, you will also consider the dilemma of humanitarian intervention, which you can later apply in the game Saving...
The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...introduction to the Irish Gothic), Irish writers took this tradition in new directions in the twentieth century. They responded to the seismic changes associated with modernity, from rising nationalism to new developments in psychology. The international upheaval of two world wars actively shaped the work these writers were producing, but the social and political...
Egyptian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Egyptian mathematics

...Introduction - For many centuries, ancient Egypt was seen as the source of wisdom and knowledge, about mathematics as well as other things. There was a long classical Greek tradition to this effect, and in later centuries the indecipherability of the hieroglyphs did nothing to dispel this belief. But since the early nineteenth century, when the deciphering of the Rosetta...
Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?
OpenLearn Ireland

Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?

...Project Board. Available at: https://publichealth.ie/sites/default/files/2023-02/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/WSA-approach-to-obesity-prevention-final.pdf (Accessed: 08 Jan 2024) Castellanos, E.H. et al. (2009) ‘Obese adults have visual attention bias for food cue images: evidence for altered reward system function’, International Journal of Obesity, 33(9), pp....
Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel
History & The Arts

Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel

...Project Gutenberg and elsewhere for free. And that Miss Agatha Christie would probably have considered a crime as well. Note: I linked to my Sayers and arsenic piece, from the first round of Science of Mysteries, in the post. If you are curious about the rest of that package, Jennifer’s posts can be found here and here. Ann’s is here. They are brilliant, of course....
Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...project received ethics approval, we formalised what we were already doing. We transcribed relevant voice notes and developed intentional reflections, guided by the same prompts we used with our participants. We also conducted what we called a bilateral focus group, interviewing each other using the same questions posed to the mothers in our study. These reflections...
A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth
Society, Politics & Law

A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth

...project to their children both a conscious and unconscious value-coded repertoire of white sanctioned behaviours that psychosocially regulates and controls her Black child. Criminalisation and policing – do Black Lives Matter? Contemporary UK statistics evidence the use of restraint found to be more prevalent in cases of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) people who have...