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Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...centres became active, including ones devoted to visual processing, face recognition, emotion, memory, language and conceptualised thought. Signals flew back and forth from region to region and out to your organs and limbs. But this wasn't all that happened when you came round. You also started having conscious experiences – experiences with a certain feel to them....
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
More or Less: interview with Tim Harford
Science, Maths & Technology

More or Less: interview with Tim Harford

...researcher figured out whose medical records were actually the governor’s, and mailed a copy of the governor’s own confidential medical record to himself. It didn’t have the governor’s name on but they’d managed to identify well this guy is the same age as the governor, has the same number of kids as the governor, lives on the same street as the governor, it’s...
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Audio 20 mins
Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...research, raising the questions of alternatives. It was very early on in the process, I think it’s come a long way since then, but I had a significant amount of feedback from the medical community about that show, so I think it did open a dialogue and that programme was certainly used a lot in schools and universities, as do most of our shows. And in the wildlife area I...
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Video 30 mins
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...researched exhaustively, and entered into UK RED. If that is the case, we would like to hear from you. You can find information on contributing to the project, and our simple online contribution form, here...History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee: Further reading - Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...centre; four small corner bays complete the square outline (Figure 5). [Described image] Figure 5 Byzantine church plan (a) and diagram (b) of the ‘cross-in-square’ or ‘inscribed cross’...Week 1: Introducing the Byzantine icon: 3.2 Sacred II: Icons in church, liturgy and worship - The ‘cross-in-square’ type presented artists with a hierarchical construction...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Meiosis and mitosis
Science, Maths & Technology

Meiosis and mitosis

...centre of the cell during metaphase of mitosis (Figure 1), they are in their most condensed state so their number, size and shape can be most easily studied. Figure 1 shows the metaphase chromosomes of a human female. These have been stained and spread out so that they are readily distinguishable. The array of chromosomes that a particular species possesses is called the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Retirement planning made easy
Money & Business

Retirement planning made easy

...research provided in the ‘References’ section at the end of the course to learn more about what spending is included in the definition of ‘moderate’ and ‘minimum’ retirement lifestyles. Looking at how much you need to spend in retirement can be done by listing everything you currently spend: using your receipts and bank statements will help. Then look at the...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Professional relationships with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Professional relationships with young people

...centred Therapy, London, Constable. Rogers, C.R. (1961) On Becoming a Person, Boston, Houghton Mifflin. Smith, M.K. (2013) Helping Relationships, Principles, Theory and Practice [Online]. Available at: http://infed.org/mobi/helping-relationships-principles-theory-and-practice/ (Accessed 23 January 2014)...Professional relationships with young people: Acknowledgements -...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs