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Getting started with French 3
Languages

Getting started with French 3

...out for faux amis (‘false friends’) in the names of French public buildings. A railway station is la gare, and a bus station is la gare routière, but an underground station is une station and a taxi rank is une station de taxi. A library is une bibliothèque, but une librairie is a bookshop. [Described image] Activity 2 Imagine you are walking around a French town...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...out situations that minimised or reduced their arousal, such as reading a book. People who scored highly on the N scale had a nervous system that was more easily aroused or reacted more strongly to stressful situations (Eysenck, 1964). Eysenck suggested that the link between personality and antisocial or criminal behaviour was due to differences in learning during...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...out this procedure. So a grammar is really a set of hypotheses about the brain. Grammars have several parts. Phonology is the set of rules about how sounds can and cannot be put together in a language. For example, brick is a perfectly good English word, whereas btick is not possible. This is because the rules about which sounds can go together in English do not allow two...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
What is politics?
Society, Politics & Law

What is politics?

...al-Qaeda, the Islamic terrorist group, hijacked four passenger planes and carried out a series of suicide attacks against the US. Two planes were flown into New York’s World Trade Center, while a third was flown into the Pentagon, close to Washington, DC. Passengers and flight attendants overcame hijackers on the fourth plane, causing it to crash in a field in Pennsylvania. What do you think of the events we came up with? ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
The story of the Welsh national anthem
History & The Arts

The story of the Welsh national anthem

...out more about The Open University’s music courses_.  _ When does a song become a national anthem? Some have been written for that purpose (France), others have been adopted (Scotland). Many take the form of a prayer or supplication (England), and some are a call to arms (Ireland), but it was the rural ballad ‘Glan Rhondda’ (‘The Bank of the [river] Rhondda’)...
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Article 5 mins
Laibach and think of North Korea: The subversive political message of the Slovenian band
History & The Arts

Laibach and think of North Korea: The subversive political message of the Slovenian band

...out of their comfort zones. Audiences not yet familiar with these strategies responded with equal violence: at the 1982 concert, the lead singer, Tomaž Hostnik (who was dressed as Mussolini in full military gear) was hit in the face with a bottle. Instead of responding, he maintained his authoritarian stance, and continued to perform with blood dripping from his head....
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Oliver Sacks: "Don't skip the footnotes"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "Don't skip the footnotes"

...out of the tin, standing up, in thirty seconds” and visiting the New York Botanical Garden, a favourite place he “traipsed around, alone, for more than forty years”. Seeking communion with the world, and how we may labour for others in achieving this state is a theme that runs constantly through Sacks' life and work. I realise this may seem vague, but suffice to say...
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Article 5 mins
Rosetta unexpectedly finds oxygen on comet 67P, surprising scientists
Science, Maths & Technology

Rosetta unexpectedly finds oxygen on comet 67P, surprising scientists

...out the sequence of events that occurred at the earliest stages of solar system formation. Rosetta’s investigation of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko remains exciting because it provides us with a window into the past to a time before the formation of the planets. We can look forward to the next surprises this comet has in store for us. This article was originally...
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Article 5 mins