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When Heath met Nixon
History & The Arts

When Heath met Nixon

...work which we are not discouraging. Castro is still bent on Hemispheric subversion." The Prime Minister asked whether there was any sign of Cuba's attempting to come to terms. None whatsoever, the President replied. Castro was still extremely belligerent. Dr Kissinger agreed. Europe BACKGROUND: Britain was considering joining the Common Market - the European Economic...
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Article 15 mins
How does the human body fight a viral infection?
Science, Maths & Technology

How does the human body fight a viral infection?

...works, read this article from The Conversation . It is important to remember that in any individual there is a time-point when virus can be detected but antibodies have not yet been produced, and a later time period when the virus has been eliminated but the anti-viral antibodies remain (Figure 4). There is a limited time-window in between when both virus and antibodies...
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Article 20 mins
Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...working knowledge of them is required in many situations. For example, in the aeronautical and aerospace industries the behaviour and properties of the atmosphere from ground level to outer space are key aspects in the design and operation of aircraft and space vehicles. In the field of civil engineering, the simulation and study of tides and tidal flows is necessary in...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Beginners’ German: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ German: food and drink

...work: These articles identify the grammatical gender of a noun. All German nouns have a grammatical gender. They are either masculine, feminine or neuter. Sometimes the gender is predictable, for example the word for man, Mann, is masculine and the word for woman, Frau, is feminine. But this is not true for a lot of nouns. They just happen to be either masculine or...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...work of art. It is not entirely clear why this should be so, but one thought appears to be that machines are governed by strict deterministic principles and creativity and imagination involve the free play of the mind unrestrained by any algorithmic bounds. But how do we know that our minds do not run according to strict deterministic principles? Another line of thought...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Beginners’ German: Places and people
Languages

Beginners’ German: Places and people

...work out meanings from the contexts...Beginners' German: Places and people: 1 Talking about places and locations - In this section, you have a first look at places and people in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. You familiarise yourself with the pronunciation of place names in German, and you talk about the location of cities and towns in German-speaking countries. You...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The mother of the American Athens
History & The Arts

The mother of the American Athens

...work; and in our Boston, not so long ago, smoking in the street was forbidden! Such are the ironies of life. What the shipyards had turned into by daylight, I do not now remember. The Witham had turned into a long, deep gash, cut down into the clay twenty feet from the level of the flood tides. We crossed on a penny ferry which the current pushed over in the manner of the...
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Managing coastal environments
Nature & Environment

Managing coastal environments

...works with (rather than defends against) the constantly increasing sea levels. In breaching sea walls and allowing saltmarsh to migrate inland as the sea level rises, humans are working for the greater long-term benefit of Blackwater biodiversity. Humans have also introduced various types of designation to ensure the marshlands biodiversity is both conserved and enhanced....
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs