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What is politics?
Society, Politics & Law

What is politics?

...sand’ (Duronio, 2012) expresses a similar sentiment: leave it to politicians, and they will find a way to empty the desert of sand. Politics is a loaded term, one that evokes strong emotional responses from both critics and champions. Still greater contempt is often reserved for those who practise politics for a living. Politicians are often the butt of jokes and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Exploring family health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring family health

...aluminium, and excessive dietary intake of saturated fats, calories and alcohol. A strong case is also building for genetic inheritance of the disease in addition to environmental or lifestyle factors. Twice as many women as men are affected by the disease, which suggests a possible link with female hormones. Indeed, scientists have demonstrated that the female hormone...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...casting off their rigid shell, and secreting a new, larger one. Trilobites are so named because they have three lobes running up and down their length - a central axis, and two lobes: one on either side. They are also divided cross-ways into a headshield, a trunk, and a tailpiece. Have a preliminiary look at the fossil in Figure 4 to see if you can identify these...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An introduction to material culture
History & The Arts

An introduction to material culture

...cast our eyes across time and space, objects support our daily lives and many of these objects go unnoticed as we undertake everyday activities such as those described above...An introduction to material culture: Making assumptions - Activity 5 [You should allow 15 minutes for this activity.] Take a look at the following list of ten objects and then spend some time...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Neighbourhood nature
Nature & Environment

Neighbourhood nature

...cast shade under their branches and provide microhabitats for other organisms. What other types of organism have been mentioned in this course? Answer Butterflies such as the silver washed fritillary (Argynnis paphia), saproxylic beetles, millipedes and fungi such as birch polypore fungus (Piptoporus betulinus)...Neighbourhood nature: 2.3 Summary - Ancient trees are a...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Earthquakes
Science, Maths & Technology

Earthquakes

...sand layer at the ground surface in the San Francisco Bay area which did not support structures as well as the solid rock nearer to the epicentre. Intensity scales have two major disadvantages; they are no use for earthquakes under the oceans and no use for uninhabited areas. Even in inhabited areas, building standards vary in different areas, so earthquake effects are...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The search for water on Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

The search for water on Mars

...casting their shadows in the bright sunlight. The rocks are of various sizes and most have sharp edges and are of angular forms. One area in the foreground is covered in very small, dark brown nodules.] Figure 7 The Atacama desert. Image: Susanne Schwenzer. What is clear, therefore, is that even where water is scarce, life can be found. For this reason, the search for...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...cast of vividly drawn characters. It seems like just the thing to take Pepys’s mind off ‘a poor sermon’, and we might guess that he was reading Tobit more for literary pleasure than spiritual edification. Bible reading was by no means only an activity for adults, and indeed in the past it was often the first book a child was given to read. In her Autobiography,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr