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Can we overcome cyber-fatigue to secure ourselves online?
Digital & Computing

Can we overcome cyber-fatigue to secure ourselves online?

...research shows very few people enable features like two-factor authentication. And even if they can, few people consider canceling their accounts – they depend too heavily on specific email addresses or other internet services in their daily lives. Policymakers get stuck, too: New groups of well-heeled executives convene to study the same old problem and end up issuing...
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Depression, mood and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Depression, mood and exercise

...Research has shown that regular exercise/physical activity can boost our mood. It might be the last thing we would think of doing, but it may be the one that it’s worth the most. Walking and other physical activity regularises the blood supply to all your vital organs and tissues, including the brain. Regular supply of oxygen and glucose to the brain and other organs is...
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Money & Business

Internships and other work experiences

...researching your career options, you may already have come across the word ‘internship’ several times, and it can be easy to assume that you must complete one otherwise employers will never be interested in you. Read on to find out why that is not the case...Week 1: What is an internship or work experience opportunity?: 1.1 What’s the difference between work...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...research interests lay within the disciplines of politics and international relations...George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: appreciate and recognise the distinctive language and terminology of Nineteen Eighty-Four understand the historical and political context of Orwell’s writing understand how...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...research institutes in the UK, with a particular focus on an interdisciplinary approach and communication with the public, local authorities, business, etc., is named after him - the Tyndall Centre in Norwich. Box 2 'Exciting' molecular vibrations The chemical bonds that hold a molecule together are like springs and, like them, they can stretch and flex, making the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
Particle physics
Science, Maths & Technology

Particle physics

...researchers were working on theories to explain strong interaction symmetry in particle physics. These were Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig. These scientists proposed that the properties of hadrons (more on these in the next section) could be explained if they were composed of smaller constituents. What is known now to be quarks! Figure 1 Murray Gell-Mann (left) and...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
History & The Arts

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

...children and clearly Thomas had a sound education, after working in London he returned to the family home. That father and son worked their cider press together suggests one way in which the family was steeped in local tradition, and Hardy’s interest in the community is evident when we learn that he took jobs and names of country people from churchyards in the area,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
The Struggle For Pay Equality in Scotland’s Colleges
Society, Politics & Law

The Struggle For Pay Equality in Scotland’s Colleges

...children are young. What has helped us to succeed is the knowledge that we are defending the education service we provide to our students, and the need for equal pay and conditions for our Trade Union members. They also fundamentally reflect an attitude about to how to organise, to fight and win. We’ve always stressed the importance of the rank and file. Branch reps are...
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