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Discovering chemistry Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering chemistry

...centre of our modern life, playing a part in areas as diverse as the development of new drugs and materials, analysing our environment through to more mundane activities such as washing your clothes and making your tea. But to truly understand the role chemistry plays you need to have a sound grasp of a number of fundamental principles. This free course, Discovering...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...children. Your address. Whether your home is owner-occupied or rented, or whether you’re living in someone else’s home – for example, your parent’s house. As noted earlier, the lenders will not make their lending decisions on the basis of your credit scores, although they may be interested if your scores materially change – particularly if they fall. The focus...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The business of film
History & The Arts

The business of film

...centre of the target represents the least commercial activity. As you move outwards, the coloured rings represent increasingly commercial activity. Decide where on the target you would place each of these industries. [Described image] Figure 1 How commercial are creative activities? Note down which colour ring you would place the industries in. You can use the boxes...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Eutrophication
Nature & Environment

Eutrophication

...Research has suggested that changes to certain macrophyte communities can occur at soluble reactive phosphorus concentrations as low as 20 μg 1(1(0.02 mg l(1). Soluble reactive phosphorus (SRP) is the term commonly used to describe phosphorus that is readily available for uptake by organisms. It is used in contrast to measures of total phosphorus, which include forms of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...research shows that minor glaciations continued into the early Silurian, but after a while the oceans became warmer again and sea levels rose. It took several million years for marine life to recover. At first, stromatolites were relatively common, apparently because the organisms that normally suppressed them had suffered severely, but by mid Silurian times, vast coral...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales
Languages

Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales

...research perspective… directed towards mnemonic processes unfolding across and beyond cultures”, it draws on James Clifford’s concept of “traveling cultures” to describe how memory processes are always in flux and transgress boundaries of time and space. For the purpose of this article, I propose the concept of “migrating literature.” In Richard’s tales,...
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Article 15 mins
Justice, fairness and mediation
Money & Business

Justice, fairness and mediation

...children, students, employees and players. In the same way, we expect law to be fair and just in its principles and in the way that they are applied. Justice is often represented by the equally balanced scales of justice. The Greek goddess of justice, Themis, was traditionally represented carrying scales in which she measured the different aspects of the argument. The...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introducing the philosophy of religion
History & The Arts

Introducing the philosophy of religion

...research. You need to find out about the life stories of Gandhi, Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King, and see whether they lived hypocritically, or whether, on the contrary, they sincerely tried to practise in private what they preached in public. The same is true of the more general, but still not philosophical, question (F), ‘Are all religious people hypocrites?’....
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs