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Getting started with Spanish 3
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 3

...OU is the leader in online learning and teaching with a heritage of more than 50 years helping student achieve their learning ambitions. The short courses are underpinned by academic rigour and designed by native speakers experienced in producing engaging materials for online learning of languages and cultures. The graduating nature of the courses means that learners can...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
General Election 2015 - 79Rewind
Society, Politics & Law

General Election 2015 - 79Rewind

...become critics of the political theatre. QUENTIN LETTS We’re now pretty sophisticated about the way that we look at politics. If we look at a TV debate, we know that they’ve all been prepping like made; we know that they’re trying not to make a mistake. If we look at political events on television, we know that there is a certain amount of fraudery involved, and yet...
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Activity 5 mins
How do empires work?
History & The Arts

How do empires work?

...becomes clear. Figure 1 Major Chinese rivers and the Grand Canal in the nineteenth century, imposed on an outline of modern-day China. The loss of control of these arteries for tax, trade, grains, reinforcements, and for the emperor to reach his inland cities, was thus one factor in bringing the Qing emperor to sue for peace. As long as the British had hammered away only...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies
Health, Sports & Psychology

The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies

...students can take a course called Memory of the Holocaust: Psychological aspects. Taught by Professor Hadas Wiseman, it outlines how the traumatic experiences of Holocaust survivors have been passed down to their children and grandchildren, a phenomenon known as ‘intergenerational transmission of trauma’. Much research has been published on the subject. In 1980, a...
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Article 15 mins
Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...become the iconic environmental fight of our time in the United States. RH: And what were people arrested for? BM: People were arrested for … well, I spent three days in Central Cell Block in DC for, I think the charge was ‘failure to yield’ . We were all sitting down in front of the gates of the White House. RH: And you wouldn’t move on? And you were...
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Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...student with an unending sexagesimal fraction to cope with. We have no space here to investigate Friberg's justification for this view, but it does sound plausible, especially because it is attentive to the situation in which we believe the tablets to have been produced and used. Please read the short extract from Friberg attached as a pdf. We shall then move on to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...students of previous modules). It is named after the Irish hydrographer Sir Francis Beaufort, (1774–1857). It is not an exact scale, being based originally on subjective visual observations noted from sailing ships at sea. Table 2 summarises its main features as applied now to effects on land and sea. Table 2 Beaufort scale and wind effects on land, adapted from...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...become well acquainted with the object of her affections. We have already seen that Antonio and Delio begin the scene alone onstage, when Antonio is depicted in terms of his well-developed and credible political ideas. As the other main characters enter and exit, the two characters stand apart and discuss them, Antonio providing detailed descriptions of Bosola, the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs