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Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...work through the course. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Environment & Development...Studying mammals: Return to the water: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: contrast the physical properties of air and water and describe implications of such differences for aquatic mammals give examples of the adaptations...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change

...work on butterflies to synthetic analyses of global impacts on a broad range of species across terrestrial and marine biomes. She works actively with governmental agencies and NGOs to help develop conservation assessment and planning tools aimed at preserving biodiversity in the face of climate change. Parmesan has received numerous scientific awards, including being...
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Does cancer treatment increase the risk of severe COVID-19 and why?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does cancer treatment increase the risk of severe COVID-19 and why?

...work by slowing the growth of rapidly dividing cancer cells. Chemotherapy is used to treat cancer (both cure or prevent recurrence) and ease cancer symptoms (used to shrink tumours that might be causing pain). However, some forms of chemotherapy can damage other healthy tissues that also divide rapidly. For example, it can kill the white blood cells that are an essential...
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Can we live harmoniously with wildlife?
Nature & Environment

Can we live harmoniously with wildlife?

...worked hard to keep them out. There was a sense of triumph all around, and the body was tied to a pole, squeezed through the gathering crowds and loaded into the back of a pick-up truck. It was then paraded around for all to see; hundreds of mobile phone cameras clicked away. The post-mortem revealed that the tiger had injuries, probably from a fight with another tiger....
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Leaving no stone unturned in the pursuit of female athletic performance
Health, Sports & Psychology

Leaving no stone unturned in the pursuit of female athletic performance

...worked for the men. In the same weekend that Brigid Kosgei broke the women’s marathon record, Eliud Kipchoge performed a feat some never thought possible as he broke the 2-hour barrier for running a marathon. To achieve this Kipchoge had been part of the ‘Breaking-2’ project developed by Nike. Years in the making, the project scrutinised every aspect of human...
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Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish
Languages

Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish

...social context will help you to listen out for and recognise some of the key words likely to come up in this context. Knowing that in such a situation you will most likely hear the names of people and specific places will help you to be alert and prepared for when that happens. At this stage the most important thing is that you are able to identify when these are...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...working through a calculation by hand this is shown by crossing through the numbers that cancel each other out, like this: four times 00 divided by one postfix times 000 postfix times zero times 00 Conventionally, fractions are written in their simplest form. In this case, you can simplify further because both top and bottom are divisible by 4 so this fraction can also be...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...work on it. I don’t worry that much about who the particular politicians are who are in charge of things. If we build movements, (and we are building movements), the politics will move. But I’m not convinced they’ll move fast enough. I wrote the first book about climate change and I wrote it 25 years ago; we needed to get to work right then and there, if we were...
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