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David Allen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

David Allen - Earth in Vision

...research and access and reduplication, so all you’ll be doing really is cutting down on the fees of access to it. I don’t think it will create a deluge of ultimate programming around natural history imagery. Planet Earth: Optimist or pessimist? Oh, I think definitely pessimistic. If anyone’s looking around at what they are really seeing, definitely pessimistic. And...
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Learning how to learn
Education & Development

Learning how to learn

...research about learning which has shown that this approach can actually improve your performance. Certainly it can and will make you a more efficient and effective learner. Before we start to explore the process, let us consider two general points about learning. There is no single method of learning that guarantees success. How you learn best depends on many different...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Making sense of art history
History & The Arts

Making sense of art history

...centre but then I noticed the shadows on the wall. After looking at these my eye was drawn to the two figures on the right and then down to the flower placed on the table below them. After this, I wasn't tempted to look away from the painting but instead found myself looking again at some of the areas I had already explored, sure that there were probably details that I...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Exploring ancient Greek religion
History & The Arts

Exploring ancient Greek religion

...centre of ancient Athens, was just one of an enormous number of shrines and temples built by Greek-speaking communities across the ancient Mediterranean. Such buildings formed a focus for religious activities in the ancient world and provided ways for the inhabitants of ancient Greece to connect with their deities, that is to say the gods and heroes that they worshipped....
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Influenza: A case study
Science, Maths & Technology

Influenza: A case study

...centre of the binding site and it is precisely these residues which are most likely to mutate between one viral strain and another. This progressive but limited change in the structure of the haemagglutinin is called genetic drift. Occasionally, perhaps once every 10–20 years, a major new strain of influenza appears which is radically different from those of previous...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Understanding water quality
Nature & Environment

Understanding water quality

...children, die of diarrhoea infections carried by contaminated water. Box 5 Nitrate in drinking water Intensive farming has caused the nitrate concentration in surface water and groundwater in some areas to increase. In parts of the UK it is now above the EU guide value of 50 mg l-1 (Table 4a). There is concern that human health may be affected if these high-nitrate waters...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis
Money & Business

Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis

...research at the stockbroker Shore Capital, credited Whiteside with being quick to see the way the political winds were blowing and reducing fat and sugar in the menu. ‘But it was not about throwing the baby out [with] the bathwater,’ Black said which for Greggs meant ‘keeping the sausage roll and the steak bake but evolving the range’. A Daily Mail inspection...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Surface water
Nature & Environment

Surface water

...centre of India and flows westwards through three states - Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharastra — and then into the Arabian Sea. These three states are particularly prone to prolonged drought. [Figure 20] Figure 20 Average monthly precipitation values for New Delhi, India. A project is under way (the Narmada Valley Development Project, NVDP) to build 30 major dams,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs