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French Presidential Election: What have we learned from the First Round?
Society, Politics & Law

French Presidential Election: What have we learned from the First Round?

...Le Pen. For a while it seemed as though a dead heat were on the cards but, in the end, Macron took first place, with nearly 24%, ahead of Le Pen at just under 22%. [The Conversation] Republican candidate François Fillon and far-left contender Jean-Luc Mélenchon followed close behind, with Socialist Benoît Hamon trailing badly. Despite coming second, for Le Pen and her...
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Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor

...T b even when living actively at sub-zero temperatures. Such animals have very good thermal insulation and may have a plentiful food supply to sustain the increased thermogenesis needed to maintain a large difference between T a and T b. For many animals, however, the food supply in a cold environment becomes scarce or inaccessible beneath snow or ice. Question 1 What are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Creating a different world: Celebrating Ursula K LeGuin
History & The Arts

Creating a different world: Celebrating Ursula K LeGuin

...Le Guin] Hermaphrodite beings, dragon women, ambivalent utopias and sympathetic magic. Just a tiny taste of the fantasy and science fiction worlds created by Ursula K Le Guin, who has died at the ripe age of 88. Le Guin challenged everything that came before and opened up new ways of doing fantasy and science fiction, but she was also a poet, essayist, historical fiction...
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Rio 2016: South East Asia on the podium
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: South East Asia on the podium

...le Clos of South Africa in the 100m butterfly event at Rio 2016. Aside from Schooling, three other athletes from Southeast Asia have won a gold medal in Rio as of this writing. They were Thai weightlifters Sukanya Srisurat and Sopita Tanasan, and Vietnamese shooter Hoang Xuan Vinh. Schooling’s victory was special because it gave Singapore its first ever Olympic gold...
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What does the French regional election result mean?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the French regional election result mean?

...Le Pen probably won’t be the next president of France, but the regional elections are proving that her Front National has truly become a major player. [Marine LePen at a 2008 event] Marine LePen in 2008 Le Pen’s party has taken 28% of the vote in the first of two rounds to elect regional assemblies. The right wing Republican Party, led by former president Nicolas...
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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France

...les jours. La baguette traditionnelle est bien meilleure lorsqu’elle est fraîche, ou même encore chaude, et c’est pour cette raison que les Français vont à la boulangerie de leur quartier au moins une fois par jour. La baguette est toujours le type de pain le plus répandu, mais il en existe beaucoup d’autres. Il y a de nombreuses sortes de pains blancs. On les...
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Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French
Languages

Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French

...les vacances. J’ai commencé par faire des études de droit, qui finalement ne m’ont pas plu, donc j’ai fait une faculté d’anglais et puis je me suis rendue compte aussi que ce n’était pas fait pour moi, donc j’ai décidé de faire des études d’infirmière. Et je suis maintenant infirmière depuis deux ans et demi. Pour mes amis, je suis euh le...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Animals at the extremes: the desert environment
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: the desert environment

...T a, precipitation, relative humidity and wind. A useful classification is that of Meigs (1953), who defined deserts according to aridity (Table 1). The aridity of a desert is determined not just by precipitation but also by the evaporation and transpiration of plants. In order to simplify classification of arid and semi-arid areas, various types of aridity index have...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs