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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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Article 10 mins
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
Judicial decision making
Society, Politics & Law

Judicial decision making

...Artificial insemination This question introduces an issue of law for the first time. Up until this point, the law you have applied has been certain. However, here the facts are certain, but the law that applies is uncertain. You therefore need to make a finding of law by deciding what the law is before you can apply it. You are sitting as a civil judge in the Court of...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
An introduction to floodplain meadows
Nature & Environment

An introduction to floodplain meadows

...artificial fertilisers for the food they provide, which reduces their carbon footprint. You can find out more about this in the session on food security. Figure 3 shows how carbon is cycled in a floodplain meadow. [Described image] Figure 3 Carbon cycling in a meadow managed through annual haymaking and aftermath grazing in a pasture-fed system. Activity 1 Timing: Allow...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs