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Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision

...artificial… they don’t want to know that it’s very difficult to find snow leopards because they’re being hunted to extinction. They don’t mind about… that’s not quite right. They don’t mind about animals being hunted to extinction provided it’s done by foreigners. What they don’t want to know is that the mountain habitat, the snows are melting and...
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Video 20 mins
What can Earth tell us about Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can Earth tell us about Mars?

...artificial to a greater or lesser degree. For example, at the moment we culture the microorganisms in batches, which wouldn’t happen in the real world. However, we also perform simulations with a continuous culture set up that uses flowing water to replenish nutrients and remove waste materials, cells, and so on. This is much closer to what we observe in lake systems in...
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Article 10 mins
The body in antiquity
History & The Arts

The body in antiquity

...intelligence and style. Richard Hunter is a lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge. Richard Hunter There were handbooks that people read and wrote and these handbooks told you both how to say some nice things about people and also how to say nasty things about people. I think it’s always important to remember that in a law court speech or when you were...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary
OpenLearn Ireland

The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary

...Intelligence Corps from 1954 to 1956. From 1960 to 1962 he was a trial lawyer in the Justice Department in Washington, DC. From 1962 to 1965 he served as executive assistant to Senator Edmund S. Muskie. In 1965 he returned to Maine where he engaged in the private practice of law in Portland until 1977. He was then appointed US attorney for Maine, a position he held until...
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Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...artificial situations, such as observing animal behaviour in a laboratory, and real-world situations, observing animals in their natural habitats (known as ethology). It is widely accepted in psychology that the brain is the part of the body where the functions that involve the ‘mind’ take place. Everything you experience, feel, think, dream, remember, imagine and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Language and thought: introducing representation
History & The Arts

Language and thought: introducing representation

...intelligence, perhaps with the intention of communicating with another intelligent being, or with us, or with God, or (as in a diary or a doodle or an arithmetical calculation) with itself. Considered merely as an unintended and accidental pattern in the dust on the Martian surface, it has no meaning whatsoever. If by outlandish chance a cluster of meteorites fell into a...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Supporting and developing resilience in social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting and developing resilience in social work

...intelligence Emotional intelligence is the ability to motivate oneself and be persistent when faced with frustration; to regulate one’s moods and maintain the ability to think even when distressed; to display empathy and hope. Emotionally intelligent people are said to be flexible, self-confident and co-operative, use coping strategies, and have good problem solving and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...artificial or pathological conditions. For example, obesity is rare among wild animals, even when food is very plentiful, but in humans, the condition is common and often leads to numerous physiological complications, ranging from susceptibility to diabetes to mechanical damage to legs and feet. Most naturally obese animals occur in cold climates, and there is no evidence...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs