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Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...working at extremes they can endure altitudes and very low oxygen levels. Well, Lucy returned to Mongolia in July to retrieve heart rate monitors which had been fitted to 30 of the geese last year, and she's with me now. So before we talk about the geese themselves and the heart rate monitor work, let's talk about Mongolia, what sort of landscape were you working in,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...work the streets for very low earnings. These people also travel around the city all day long collecting any type of waste that has a resale value. Items which can be resold include cardboard, foam, electronic goods, paper and other metal goods such as scrap metals or wires. These collectors then take these items to larger depots and sell them on to larger merchants, who...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...work by creating the change they wish to encounter, building and forging new ways of experiencing social and political life. (2014, p. 2) As with the law, equitable ideas often concern private property and how, for example, it is held (possessed, owned), used and (re)distributed in capitalist societies...Equity – law and idea: 1.1 The foundations of equity - There are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Nationalism, self-determination and secession
Society, Politics & Law

Nationalism, self-determination and secession

...works range from the bitter dispute between Palestine and Israel, to the ongoing debates about secession which threaten to break up old multinational states like the UK and Canada. If you have any apprehensions about ‘doing political theory’, I would simply say: there’s no need! Just work through the text, and by the end you will find yourself in possession of some...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Should we test drugs on pregnant women?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should we test drugs on pregnant women?

...work that’s being done.” At the same time, the scientists who are trying to gather this desperately needed data often struggle to get their studies approved. Lyerly, Little and Faden decided that the cause needed more proactive advocates. So in the spring of 2009, the ‘troika’, as they call themselves, formally launched the Second Wave Initiative: a broad,...
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Article 15 mins
Retail marketing
Money & Business

Retail marketing

...work wear, school wear, maternity wear, lingerie, leather wear, sports wear, bridal wear DIY goods Wallpaper, paint, hardware, ironmongery, doors Electrical goods Computer hardware, computer software, white goods, brown goods, audio-visual Finance Banking, insurance, credit, building societies Footwear Children’s, ladies’ and men's shoes, sports shoes, shoe repair...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The science of nuclear energy
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of nuclear energy

...worked out from the mass number given the symbol A. The mass number is equal to the number of protons in a nucleus plus the number of neutrons. So: Mass number = number of neutrons + number of protons A = number of neutrons + Z Number of neutrons = A−Z The number of neutrons in an isotope can be found from the difference between the mass number and the atomic number. As...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast
History & The Arts

Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast

...working in Britain, Ian Kershaw, who’s Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield. I’ve had the great privilege of working closely with Ian on a variety of television projects over the last ten years or so, and I can certainly vouch for the fact that he isn’t just a brilliant academic, he’s a first rate communicator as well. In fact, once at a...
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Audio 45 mins