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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
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
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
Exploring philosophy: faking nature
History & The Arts

Exploring philosophy: faking nature

...artificial, and that it is a copy, more or less, that might kind of affect our experience of those sensorial features. So whilst we're getting all the same kind of inputs, like it sounds the same and looks the same, we can take all those on board. But we know that it's a bit artificial and that might affect our kind of aesthetic experience. Daisy Dixon on restoring nature...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...intelligence tests despite such extensive surgery. In fact they wondered what the purpose of the corpus callosum was if you could cut through it with so little effect. However careful testing by Roger Sperry (1968) and colleagues did uncover behaviour that was far from normal. This work was to gain him a Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1981. Sperry et al, devised a number of...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
John Napier
Science, Maths & Technology

John Napier

...artificial number’ and later a ‘logarithm’ (a term which he coined from Greek words meaning something like ‘ratio-number’), with the property that from the sum of two such logarithms the result of multiplying the two original numbers could be recovered. In a sense this idea had been around for a long time. Since at least Greek times it had been known that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?

...intelligence and black ops resources are used, not to defend the US, as we are told, but to support frequently shadowy and undeclared foreign engagements that are neither discussed nor sanctioned by Congress and, least of all, by the general public. The US now lags behind many other developed countries Civic organisations and institutions will continue to be starved of...
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Article 5 mins
How do empires work?
History & The Arts

How do empires work?

...artificial waterway, the Grand Canal. British sea and waterborne forces now had the Chinese land-based empire by its throat. To understand why this was so, we need to understand how the Chinese empire worked; and to do this we need to look at empire as a ‘system of power’. In particular, we need to understand just how vital the Yangzi and Grand Canal were to its...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr