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Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...becomes all the more marked when we observe that the iconographic method is deeply rooted in the humanist tradition of classical learning. The motto ‘to instruct and delight’ derives from the Latin docere et delectare and the sentiment it embodies can be traced back to the declaration by the Roman poet Horace (65 BCE–8 CE): Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Transport and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Transport and Sustainability

...become obvious that mere incremental changes to the existing fossil fuel-based technology would not produce the large reductions in national CO2 emissions required to meet a policy of Net Zero emissions by 2050. In 2020, the UK government announced that the sale of new cars and vans powered solely by petrol or diesel fuel would be phased out by 2030...Transport and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...become a mass movement in Germany and surrounding states by 1900, although it was much less popular in Britain. The quest for a healthy diet was closely linked with other movements – such as unorthodox medicine and feminism, whose supporters argued that overly elaborate diets tied women to the kitchen (Meyer-Renschhausen and Wirz, 1999). Even ordinary foodstuffs were...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...becomes a summary of a summary, and that is then further summarised by journalists like yourself into a few headlines. So essentially, a 10,000 page report reflecting … RH: Or 120 words for a morning Radio 4 bulletin piece, for instance. RT: Exactly, exactly. So we have a literature that's perhaps measured ... RH: I hope you have sympathy for us . RT:...
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Retail marketing
Money & Business

Retail marketing

...become out of date and inferior to those of the competition, so companies must update products with features that customers value or completely replace the product. Market leadership can change as new products are developed that give greater benefits than old ones. For example, the Sony Walkman was the market leader in portable music players. Following its launch, the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Richard Brock - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Richard Brock - Earth in Vision

...become … climate change fatigue we have, people actually don’t want to know about that. I think what I felt, the reason I did Dubai was Dubai seems to me the worst example of excess on the planet. The greed, the consumerism, the pollution … just no thought for the future, but a lot of people would aspire to that. You can’t really blame them when someone in another...
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Introducing healthcare improvement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing healthcare improvement

...becoming ever more linguistically and culturally diverse is also relevant to other countries, including those of Western Europe. This means that many of the issues raised in the video have a global relevance, even if the specific nature of each national context is different in some way to the American context...Introducing healthcare improvement: Conclusion - This...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Inheritance of characters
Science, Maths & Technology

Inheritance of characters

...become visible (because they have condensed) and it is during mitosis that chromosome number, size and shape can be most easily studied. Every species has a particular number of chromosomes, each with a characteristic size and shape. For example, chimpanzee cells have 48 chromosomes, turkey cells have 82, and the cells of some species of ferns have over 1000 chromosomes!...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs