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Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list

...manage long distances in the pool is robbing us of the chance to see one of the world's greatest athletes in her element: The most accurate way to describe Katie Ledecky is unstoppable. The American distance swimmer and Rio Olympics favorite doesn’t just beat her opponents by a couple hundredths of a second or an extra half stroke. Her winning margin in races is often...
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Article 5 mins
A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...manage to do all that without using universe. Evolution is often used as a kind of universal metaphor, and that's a real danger. I'm often reminded of the fact, not many people know this, that the United States' Constitution with the President and House of Representatives and the Senate and the like, was actually designed as a model of the universe, of the solar system....
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Article 30 mins
Richard Brock - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Richard Brock - Earth in Vision

...Project My name’s Richard Brock, I’m an independent filmmaker, was with the Natural History Unit for 35 years, worked on Life on Earth and Living Planet with David Attenborough and now do my own films almost entirely about conservation. What inspired me… Well I suppose it was way back to school days when I was birdwatching and catching butterflies as you did then,...
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Video 30 mins
Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess

...project? But nevertheless, in the early modern past you had status the higher up the royal chain of command you were, and the closer you were to the body of the King or the Queen. So if you were the groom of the stole, which actually meant the groom of the stool, you were the person who carried the King's chamber pot. So to you the smell of his chamber pot was the sweet...
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Article 30 mins
Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Science, Maths & Technology

Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere

...Introduction - Until the 1980s, the icy satellites of the outer planets were scarcely thought of as places where life could ever have existed. Few could have imagined that one of them, Europa, would within twenty years have become the rival of Mars as a priority for astrobiological study. This course recounts the history of our changing perceptions of the icy satellites,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 17 hrs
Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground

...Introduction - This course introduces ‘voice-leading’ or ‘Schenkerian’ analysis. You will study this technique by exploring harmonic structure in piano sonatas by Mozart. This course will concentrate mainly on the examination of short extracts from these sonatas. Certain specialist analytical terms are glossed at the end of this free course, and these words are...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris
Languages

Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris

...Introduction - This course offers you around 15 hours of interactive study in French, with audio and video material and at an advanced level, on the topic of science and technology in France. Learning Outcomes include how to express wishes, preferences and necessity, how to structure arguments, write a summary, use the subjunctive, express the conditional, pronounce...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Speeches and speech-making
History & The Arts

Speeches and speech-making

...Introduction - The terms ‘voice’ and ‘text’ are multifaceted. Both have a wide range of possible meanings in everyday speech and academic usage. You may encounter the two words used in a variety of ways, in connection with different subjects, and they won’t always mean exactly the same thing. In the following sections we will explore the shifting meanings and...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr