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'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race
Education & Development

'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race

...Social Sciences courses and qualifications. 1969 was the year that a human first landed on the moon. It was also the year that I first saw a Black person on the telly. Both events were equally stellar for me. I was allowed to stay up late, even though it was a school night (I was only seven), to watch the grainy but miraculous pictures on our small black and white TV. It...
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Article 10 mins
The science behind why we drink alcohol
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science behind why we drink alcohol

...social behaviour – coming more under the control of midbrain dopamine neurons. This leads to the loss of self-restraint that people report when drinking. One noticeable effect – after just a few drinks – is an increase in sociability . But the loss of inhibition probably also underlies risk-taking behaviour while under the influence and goes some way towards...
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Article 5 mins
Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation
Nature & Environment

Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation

...social justice affecting the livelihoods of local indigenous people, and their cultures that are destroyed through deforestation. When they protest against the continued practice of unsustainable farming, they are thrown in jail rather than heard, because palm oil businesses are protected by local law enforcers and government officials. An additional problem with palm oil...
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Article 10 mins
Today’s immigration laws have teeth, and their bite is toxic for people seeking asylum
Society, Politics & Law

Today’s immigration laws have teeth, and their bite is toxic for people seeking asylum

...social controls on a daily basis, including immigration enforcement officers on public transport and regulations within housing. To give one example, women I spoke with who lived in one accommodation facility run by SERCO said that they had been told they would be reported to the Home Office for leaving bedroom doors open that could be a fire hazard. In this way, everyday...
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Understanding antibiotic resistance Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding antibiotic resistance

...work? What is antibiotic resistance? Why is it a problem? What can we do about it?...Have you ever been prescribed a course of antibiotics by your doctor to treat a bacterial infection? Did you wonder how they worked? It’s likely that, provided you completed the course prescribed by your doctor, the antibiotics successfully treated your infection. But what if the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Beginners’ Italian: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Italian: food and drink

...work correctly in the Safari browser on Apple Mac computers. Please try another browser such as Google Chrome to run this...Beginners’ Italian: food and drink: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: take part in simple exchanges when buying drinks and snacks in an Italian café understand some customs relating to Italian cafés begin to...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Nine days' wonder in York
History & The Arts

Nine days' wonder in York

...work of sowing by drill was going steadily forward, in the faith that such an unprecedented summer as was now passing would return another year. At all these pleasant labors, of course, the rooks were helping, or at least bossing. II We expected to stay certainly a week, and perhaps two weeks, in York, and our luck with railway hotels had been so smiling elsewhere that we...
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Introduction to ecosystems
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to ecosystems

...works, with illustrations from around the world. This course is designed to be studied for about 2 hours per week over 6 weeks. As there is no start and end date you can study in your own time and your own pace. Throughout this free non-accredited course you will be considering the following overarching questions: What is the importance of understanding ecosystems? How do...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs