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The immune system
Science, Maths & Technology

The immune system

...work?...[Digital illustration of red and white blood cells] Leukocytes (often called %u2018white blood cells%u2019) are different to red blood cells, as portrayed by this computerised graphic The human immune system is an extremely complex network of interacting cells and biological molecules. Once our body’s barriers to infection have been breached the active agents of...
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Article 10 mins
Introducing the philosophy of religion
History & The Arts

Introducing the philosophy of religion

...work (what does ‘hypocrite’ mean?) and then, once more, some biographical research. If you can find just one religious person who is not a hypocrite, then the answer to (F) is ‘No’. This biographical exercise is not philosophy either. So (F) doesn’t count as a philosophical question any more than (G) did. Now consider question (E), ‘Does religion depend on...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Lying and politics: a brief primer
Society, Politics & Law

Lying and politics: a brief primer

...social situations. Lady Fookes I would describe a lie as a deliberate misrepresentation of a fact. Deliberate and I think that's the key thing. If I may make the comparison with a murder it has to be deliberate to be murder or so reckless of the consequences as to be the same thing which would distinguish it from manslaughter when you do it by mistake. It's not intended....
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Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...social factors (Mintz and Du Bois, 2002). These factors add other dimensions to food security. To fulfil these dimensions, emphasis on production alone is not sufficient. In Activity 2, you will get a sense of the diversity of diets, dietary choices and preferences around the world. Activity 2 Dinner plates around the world Timing: Allow around 1 hour This activity asks...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Emotion: an introductory picture
History & The Arts

Emotion: an introductory picture

...works, and about how people think and behave. How does a philosophical answer to the ‘What is…?’ question relate to these scientific accounts of the nature of emotion? A standard way to answer this question is to say that, while science is concerned to describe and explain the way in which the world actually works, the role of philosophy is to take a step back –...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Library of Alexandria
History & The Arts

Library of Alexandria

...work together. It is important to be aware of how studying the ancient world is always, at heart, an interdisciplinary endeavour, a fact which the case study in this free course demonstrates particularly well. You will explore the ancient Library of Alexandria, a great institution of learning and scholarship founded by the Ptolemaic rulers of Alexandria in the 3rd century...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Prices, location and spread
Science, Maths & Technology

Prices, location and spread

...working, others unemployed, some retired and others still at school. It is not possible, using statistical techniques, to provide a complete answer to this one question covering such a big theme, particularly an answer which is valid for all these people and their varied economic and social circumstances; data and techniques both have to be used with common sense....
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid
History & The Arts

Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid

...working on the Aeneid throughout the 20s bce, by which time Augustus had imposed stability, but the traumas of the past were still a recent memory. Several passages in the Aeneid use prophecy or supernatural knowledge to refer directly to historical events of Virgil’s own day. These passages identify and praise Augustus himself, and Virgil hopes for a new era of peace...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs