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How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...become tumour paint. The film presented Olson with an opportunity. He thought he could use it to harness two of the most powerful tools of the modern entrepreneur: goodwill and crowdfunding. As it happens, just a few blocks away from him were the offices of the world’s biggest internet retailer, Amazon. He sent them a link to Bringing Light and invited the Amazon team...
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Article 5 mins
Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?

...become the focus over the years for some sloppy history writing, careless repetition of unchecked ‘facts’ and, recently, social media/online comments about English oppressors crushing leftie Scots. These ‘myths’ (or untruths) have been tackled recently in a series of articles (links below). Gordon Barclay, Military Historian Barclay’s arguments are outlined more...
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Article 20 mins
Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...becoming adults. In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that live, human-made micro-organisms were patentable material, paving the way to make cloning research profitable. Technology continued to advance and in 1984 Steen Willadsen, a Danish embryologist working in Texas, succeeded in cloning a sheep using a nucleus from a cell of an early embryo. This exciting result was...
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Article 30 mins
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...become a great poet. But what did she read as a child and a teenager, and how did this shape her thinking and writing? Much of the evidence of her reading from her family correspondence is now contained on the UK RED site, so let’s start by conducting an advanced search. Activity 1 Search for the evidence of Elizabeth Barrett’s childhood reading in UK RED. Click on...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
What are waves?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are waves?

...become aware of both the shape of their environment – and their food (Figure 7). [Described image] Figure 7 A dolphin projects a series of clicks at different frequencies towards its prey. By sensing the returning echoes, it can determine the distance to its prey and environment. Other animals that commonly use ultrasound are the bats. These species show amazing...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials
Languages

Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials

...become the only story. (Adichie, 2009, quoted in TED, 2009, 13:11) The story you have heard or experienced relating to Chinese culture is just one experience of many. China is a huge country with a big population, regional differences and 56 minority groups. Whenever you hear a story, positive or negative, you must not jump to conclusions but instead connect it with other...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Diversity in religion: Islam
History & The Arts

Diversity in religion: Islam

...become more influential and widely accepted, and others may be difficult to find. When it came to sex, the majority view did come to be that the only legitimate sexual relationship was between a married man and his wife (or wives) (and also between a man and female slaves). The four main Sunni legal schools agreed that sexual relationships between men were sinful, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...become habitable? Other features are named after members of the crew: as well as the Cook’s Straits, there is an island named after Joseph Banks who went on the voyage. Deciding what the name for the lands should be and then imposing it was one way of claiming ownership...Session 1: Understanding empire: 4 Summary of Session 1 - In this first session of the course, you...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs