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Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...out walking at night in an unfamiliar neighbourhood and hear a sudden thump behind you it may make you jump in alarm. Your heart will be beating hard and all your senses will be alert – because your ‘fight or flight’ reaction has been triggered. Information from the senses (from hearing, in this case) reaches the amygdala, which triggers the ‘fight or flight’s...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Myths in law
Society, Politics & Law

Myths in law

...out that I was the first-ever Afghan female to qualify. It wasn't something that I set out to do. It just happened. That wasn't the goal or the objective. Being in my position, I think, A: I realise how much more we have to do for inclusion and diversity, just generally along the bar. But also, I have faced other challenges in my day-to-day, whether or not that's...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts

...out more about the sport you follow in particular and how it fits into ideas about sport more generally? This course is the ideal place to start. Sport and science have become increasingly interlinked in recent years. We need only to think of an Olympic team – which used to be mostly made up of athletes but now is likely to include a squad of almost equal size...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Intermediate French: 14 July
Languages

Intermediate French: 14 July

...out phrases or sentences it appears in as you come across them (perhaps with one page for each of the four past participle endings). You could also invent short dialogues using past participles that have the same ending: the rhyme may help you to memorise them. There is an example of this technique in the next activity, where we have used only monosyllabic past...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?

...out programmes for vaccinating stray dogs on the street. Most deal with the problem by hiring NGOs like CUPA. That leaves rural areas, where rabies strikes hardest, all but ignored. “Rabies will always be in India,” says Dr S N Madhusudana, a professor at Bangalore’s National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences who has studied the disease for three decades....
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Article 10 mins
Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?

...out of Europe do not want to hear that it will be bad for the economy. Those who want to stay in are equally unlikely to believe that a great trading opportunity is about to open up. Indeed, far from coming together the two tribes seem further away from each other than ever. The British public seem to think that over the next few years (whatever that means) Brexit will be...
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Article 10 mins
Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...out formal incorporation requirements that can take considerable time to comply with. Implications of having a separate legal personality include: Companies can enter into contracts, or sue and be sued in their own right. Once incorporated, the company will continue until it is formally wound up. The assets of the company are protected against the personal creditors of...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment
Nature & Environment

Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment

...often able to return to a clean and unpolluted condition as the pollutants are flushed out and carried down to the sea. In addition, because of the organisms present (e.g. bacteria capable of breaking down organic matter), river water has some capacity for self-purification – unless too many of these organisms are killed off too quickly. Some pollutants are objectionable because they overload the self-purification processes ......
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs