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Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...becoming clearer. It seems that some Burgess Shale forms are hard to classify simply because the boundaries between major categories of animal life were still blurred shortly after the Cambrian explosion. In other words, by mid Cambrian time, there still had not been enough time for some groups to have diverged sufficiently from their recent common ancestors to be...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...become prohibitive, breakdowns and lost running hours are excessive. With more lorry capacity, better reliability and a faster service you could easily obtain more business. You decide to rebuild the depot with better equipment, full insulation, an effective sprinkler system and in-company lorry maintenance. You also decide to replace the five old lorries (which have been...
The science of nuclear energy
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of nuclear energy

...becoming more informed of energy choices. This course is also available to study on FutureLearn, where you have the opportunity to purchase a FutureLearn certificate on completion....Week 1: Into the atom: Introduction - Welcome to this free course, The science of nuclear energy. In the following video, course authors Sam Smidt and Gemma Warriner introduce themselves and...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp

...becoming unwieldy on my hands, and one must double back to secure connexion--read out in that silvery voice of his, which is sweeter than any music to my ear, those chapters of the New Testament that deal with the birth of the Saviour. And the red-faced rustic congregation hung on the good man's voice as he spoke of the Infant brought forth in a manger, of the shining...
Neighbourhood nature
Nature & Environment

Neighbourhood nature

...become woodland if left without interference from factors such as grazing, mowing or ploughing. You can probably think of examples of wasteland or uncultivated fields in your area where this process is starting to happen. Plantations are areas of woodland where the trees have been deliberately planted. Non-native conifers – trees with needles that bear cones and are...
Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?

...become increasingly popular over the past two decades and there are events held across the world in running, swimming and cycling, as well as triathlons. This increased popularity can be attributed to three significant factors (Datta and Bagchi, 2019). First, increased economic prosperity for some people, particularly in the Global North, has resulted in increased...
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...become one of the most written about artists of any period. (Look at The British Library online catalogue to survey recent books about him. Click to read Carel van Mander's writing on Caravaggio's life Activity 2 Langdon in the introduction to her book outlines the reasons for the many modern publications about Caravaggio and reviews some of the literature on him. Please...
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...become a lost generation – instead they rose to prominence in the popular memory of the ‘Roaring Twenties’. However, the Mitford quote captures a second, important element in our understanding of the interwar years in Europe: the way in which war has hung so heavily over the period, as even the term, ‘interwar’, so commonly used by historians, implies. And...