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Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision

...working at various times and I can’t be in 15 places at the same time, so clearly, it’s only a tiny minority in which I can really claim credit for being there at the time and nearly always that would be when I appeared in picture. If I didn’t, the most likely is that I wasn’t there either! So I think it’s only fair that people should get proper credit for their...
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Video 40 mins
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...works of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a sacred place. Therefore, a number of early Christians, Church Fathers as well as laymen, questioned and even opposed the representation of Christ and of any other holy person and event as idolatry. However, others defended it, and the resulting dispute marked and divided the early Christian world...Week 1:...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...socialism to ecology and I participated in that development and know most of the key players. I used to play football with Joschka Fischer and Daniel Cohn Bendit – RH: The German Green – BP: He became one of the leading Green politicians. RH: It must have been a turbulent time, there were great street protests against nuclear, against squatting, were you involved in...
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Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
History & The Arts

Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks

...works on longitude clocks which included this important testimony – and indeed, the figures in the printed versions of Holmes’s story have been altered from those in Moray’s original letter to Huygens). Holmes’s Master also confirmed that the ships had not watered on Fuego, ‘yet they had made that island at the time, which the Major had foretold, and were gone...
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Article 10 mins
Studying mammals: The insect hunters
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The insect hunters

...work through the course. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Environment & Development...Studying mammals: The insect hunters: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe the lifestyle of a variety of insect eaters, from four orders give examples of adaptations linked to feeding in insect eaters explain the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
What are waves?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are waves?

...work out exactly how far away the object reflecting the sound is. This is the principle of radar which is used to map and track the locations of aircraft in the sky and ships on the sea, in this case using electromagnetic waves. It is also the same principle used by ships that send a sonar (SOund Navigation And Ranging) pulse of sound into the ocean and ‘listen’ to...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
What is sleep paralysis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is sleep paralysis?

...worked. Another approach is to try to disrupt episodes rather than prevent them by attempting to move body parts such as a finger, or trying to relax. Of people who try to disrupt episodes, 54% believed them to be effective. While sleep paralysis can be a terrifying ordeal to go through, those who do experience it should try to remember that it is a temporary and harmless...
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Why don't statistics reveal when sports matches have been fixed?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why don't statistics reveal when sports matches have been fixed?

...work on nurse and carer problems, but if people are concerned that their sports and games are being corrupted by deliberate fixing, then lessening the reliance upon betting, or somehow changing the nature of betting, may offer some way forward as all match fixing appears related to it and the vast sums of money linked to it.[The Conversation] This article was originally...
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