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Should we test drugs on pregnant women?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should we test drugs on pregnant women?

...become determined to reverse this longstanding scientific neglect of pregnant women. Science and society, they argue, have got it utterly wrong: our efforts to protect women and their fetuses have actually put them both in jeopardy. “Ethics doesn’t preclude including pregnant women in research,” says Lyerly. “Actually, ethics requires it.” On 16 December 1961,...
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Article 15 mins
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...become even more pressing and their consequences more acute in times when the economy is not growing; or worse, in moments when it is actually shrinking. As the famous economist Paul Krugman wrote in 2012, 'times of crisis are when economists are most needed. If they cannot get their advice accepted in the clinch – or worse yet, if they have no useful advice to offer...
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Level 2: Intermediate 28 hrs
Datblygu strategaethau astudio effeithiol
Education & Development

Datblygu strategaethau astudio effeithiol

...OU Study yn http://www.open.ac.uk/ skillsforstudy/. Er bod dulliau dysgu sy’n gweithio’n dda yn ôl pob tebyg ar gyfer amrywiaeth o weithgareddau astudio, fe welwch fod rhai pynciau lle mae angen datblygu sgiliau dysgu penodol ar eu cyfer. Er enghraifft, gallwch geisio dysgu rhaglenni cyfrifiadurol drwy ddarllen amdanynt (mae llyfrau ar ieithoedd cyfrifiadurol), ond...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Intermediate French: 14 July
Languages

Intermediate French: 14 July

...ou pas?). 1 Verb (avoir/être) + subject + past participle (formal French) Avez-vous vécu longtemps aux États-Unis? Did you live/have you lived in the States for a long time? Êtes-vous allé(e) en Inde? Have you been to India? 2 Est-ce que + subject + verb (avoir/être) + past participle Est-ce qu’il a réussi à son examen? Did he pass his exam? 3 Subject + verb...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...becomes animated describing the torment of those with no voice: his patients. People in a ‘vegetative state’ are awake yet unaware. Their eyes can open and sometimes wander. They can smile, grasp another’s hand, cry, groan or grunt. But they are indifferent to a hand clap, unable to see or to understand speech. Their motions are not purposeful but reflexive. They...
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Surface water
Nature & Environment

Surface water

...become groundwater may eventually re-emerge at the surface as springs where the water table intersects the surface. Almost all streams and rivers have springs or seepages as their ultimate source, or are fed by them at various points along their courses. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 2 study in Environment & Development...Surface water: Learning...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Population ageing: a global health crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Population ageing: a global health crisis?

...becomes ‘elderly’? Discussion In this video, the ‘elderly’ are those who are 60+. What do you think about this way of classifying people as ‘old’? Is it fair? Using this classification, the video then goes onto show how for the first time, there will be more older people than there of working age people in societies across the globe. b.What are the benefits of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga
History & The Arts

Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga

...Oued Khalled, in a fertile landscape of olives and grain. The city is well preserved and extensively excavated. We’ll be exploring the remains to investigate how the town developed and what impact Roman occupation had on the city. Thugga was already a flourishing city the 4th century BC. Well before the kingdom of Numidia was added to the Roman Empire, it was a centre...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs