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Minerals and the crystalline state
Science, Maths & Technology

Minerals and the crystalline state

...artificially heated or irradiated amethyst.) Milky quartz is white and cloudy as a result of tiny bubbles of fluid (liquid and/or gas). In a few minerals, such as tourmaline, an individual crystal may be multicoloured (Figure 8), reflecting subtle changes in chemical composition as it grew. Although most commonly black, other colours of tourmaline include brown, green,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Meiosis and mitosis
Science, Maths & Technology

Meiosis and mitosis

...artificially dabbing pollen grains from one plant onto the female flowers of another plant. These plants are the parental generation (abbreviated to P), and the cobs resulting from the cross are the first offspring generation or first filial (pronounced 'phil-ee-al') generation, (abbreviated to F1 ). The subsequent generations in such an experiment are called F2, F3, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Studying mammals: The opportunists
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The opportunists

...intelligence'. How do the babirusas featured in the TV programme at 09.30 'know' that a certain sort of clay can neutralise the poisons in their favourite Pangi tree fruits? Much the same question could be asked of comparable behaviour in tapirs, which are herbivorous browsers. The sequence at 12.07-18.35 in the TV programme 'Plant predators' of elephants excavating for...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...artificial connection between them becomes real in our minds. The use of emotional appeals is a key component of this process. Figure 6 shows some of the most commonly used emotional appeals. You will explore each one in the following sections. [Described image] Figure 6 Types of emotional appeal...Marketing communications in the digital age: 5.1 Fear and guilt - Fear and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Making sense of art history
History & The Arts

Making sense of art history

...artificial feel, as in Life by Gilbert and George (Plate 7), where intense reds, yellows, greens and blue are dominant. Plate 7 Gilbert and George, Life from Death Hope Life Fear, 1984, handcolouredphotographs, framed on paper, unique. (Courtesy of Gilbert and George. © Tate, London, 2005.) Activity 7: The use of brightness of colour in Paula Rego's The Maids Timing: You...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...Artificial cloning, most famously Dolly the sheep, but many other mammals and amphibians have been cloned. Jurassic Park brought the subject of artificial cloning to attention of the population at large through Lord Richard Attenborough’s character who created a dinosaur theme park. It turns out that the story contained a certain amount of ‘poetic license’; DNA...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The ethics of cultural heritage
History & The Arts

The ethics of cultural heritage

...intelligence. Their superior numbers allowed the Allied forces to capture key locations in the hills around Cassino and the German forces, realising they would soon be defeated, chose to retreat. A group of Polish soldiers then finally captured the abbey. After this victory, the Allied forces were able to continue pushing northward, and by 4 June, they had successfully...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The problem with crime
Society, Politics & Law

The problem with crime

...intelligent voice to a whole stratum of society which had never been heard from before. We have Janice Galloway's first novel, "The Trick is the Keep Breathing", published in 1989, centred on a woman struggling out of a nervous breakdown, that's as far as possible from the old hard man character. A magic realism arrives in Glasgow fiction with A.L. KeMedy's 1995 novel "So...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr