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Five pillars of ageing well
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five pillars of ageing well

...works better the more it gets stimulated. Stimulation can be various, through observing (people, places, nature etc) trough interacting with people and engaging with the world we live in and surrounds us. We can read newspapers, magazines, books, learning new languages, take drawing classes, computer classes, sewing and other handcraft classes, learning to play musical...
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Video 10 mins
Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema
Languages

Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema

...works. When you get to know a new verb, don’t forget to check its construction (i.e. how does it fit into the rest of a sentence). Here are some verbs followed by prepositions à or de: Followed by à: songer à ; réussir à ; apprendre à ; arriver à Followed by de : essayer de ; décider de ; tenter de ; choisir de Note that the verb continuer is followed by either...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...work our way through the examples, and fill up each of them: there is a kind of symmetry going on...The moral equality of combatants: 2 More on Walzer’s theory of self-defence - Walzer’s key point is that soldiers are ‘dangerous men’. On his line of argument, equal liability comes from equality of threat; what it is that makes it permissible for me to kill you is...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...working on behalf of Rolex Encoding Roger Federer, as brand ambassador, extols the brand identity Message TV advertisement Media The advert is seen and message interpreted Decoding TV audiences Receiver Purchase/not purchase, or recommend/not recommend Response Competitors (e.g. Omega, TAG, Heuer, Hublot) Noise Is it worth the price and service? Feedback Connection with...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introduction to polymers
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to polymers

...working in the USA and Britain. These first condensation products of the controlled reactions between phenol and formaldehyde produced hard but relatively weak and brittle materials. Swinburne commercialised his resin as a range of varnishes but Baekeland mixed the resin with significant amounts of woodflour to produce the first polymer composite – Bakelite . It was the...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...work? The greater part of the Earth’s atmosphere is in the lower atmosphere, and when dry it is made up almost entirely of three gases: nitrogen, with 78% (78 parts out of 100) by volume; oxygen (21%); and an inert gas, argon, making up most of the remainder. These three gases do not interact significantly with heat (i.e. infra-red) radiation from the Sun or the Earth....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship
History & The Arts

Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship

...worked together to animate the ‘art of listening’. ‘Beyond The Babble’ was an interactive and participatory audio-focused installation, part of the ‘Who Are We?’ Tate Exchange Programme every day from the 14th-19th March. It explored questions of identity, belonging and the more limited impact that more nuanced voices may have. We argue that these voices go...
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Article 15 mins
Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view
History & The Arts

Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view

...worked by moving audiences between two different “sets” showing scenes from nature in changing time and seasons, the transitions effected by lighting. [Patent image of Daguerre’s London Diorama] Patent image of Daguerre's London Diorama, 1823 With the viewer at the centre of the view, the frame was dissolved. No longer was the experience of landscape representation...
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