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Psychological profiling
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological profiling

...becomes ironic, post-modern pastiche and so on in reuse. I am glad they are carrying on nonetheless - the interest of the genre for women writers and their success in reusing it seems to me to be specifically about taking on and considering as women the archetypal male modes which the Detective represented. Marlowe would say this is a lot of weak talk, I guess. Tom...
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Article 10 mins
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Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...Student Loans Company has become a major lender. Then there’s the high-cost credit market aimed mostly at people on low incomes. They provide high risk, unsecured lending to customers who have limited or no access to mainstream credit. As a reflection of this, the cost of credit is steep. Such lenders include payday lenders. Borrowing money can be arranged quickly via...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics

...Q&A session on COVID-19 with experts from the OU STEM faculty, click here. • If you are interested in the numbers around COVID-19, such as the meaning for the various terms, the modelling that’s being used to obtain estimates, or the reliability of the statistics, then head over to ‘A statistician’s guide to coronavirus numbers’ by the Royal Statistical Society....
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Article 10 mins
Happy GeoWeek!
Nature & Environment

Happy GeoWeek!

...little pieces of other rocks, stuck together with some kind of cement. Your igneous and metamorphic rocks will have the grains actually interlocking. And your metamorphic rocks might have some kind of alignment, but you'll often have to step back to see it. Good luck, and happy hunting! Like geology? Find out more with these FREE resources Study geo-sciences with the OU...
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How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth
Science, Maths & Technology

How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth

...become increasingly rare, but a very few reach out even beyond the Moon’s orbit and are lost to Earth. The connected environment A Perfect Planet emphasises how different elements of our environment are interconnected. The atmosphere responds to varying heating by sunlight, driving movement. These motions in the troposphere are what we experience as wind. The oceans...
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Article 20 mins
Key historic LGBTQI+ figures
Education & Development

Key historic LGBTQI+ figures

...become one of the first gay men in the public eye to share that he was HIV positive and later died due to complications from illness. Stormé DeLarverie 24 December 1920 – 24 May 2014 It was a rebellion, it was an uprising, it was a civil rights disobedience – it wasn’t no damn riot. Stormé DeLarverie was a lifelong LGBT activist and drag performer who played an...
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Simple coding
Digital & Computing

Simple coding

...becomes a string. Hence, the computer will print the name literally, instead of printing the value stored in the variable. To sum up, "result", "7", result and 7 are different things: the first two are strings (literal text), the third is a variable, and the last is a number. Learning from mistakes is always helpful, so for this and the remaining programs in this...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Forensic science and fingerprints
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic science and fingerprints

...Students will learn the principles used in classifying and matching fingerprints (often called marks)...This free course, Forensic science and fingerprints, covers how science can make fingerprints easier to study, how they are used in court and some of the questions about the extent to which fingerprint identification is sound and scientific. Students will learn the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs