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A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham
History & The Arts

A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham

...social and political; but we could be several times rottener than we administratively are, and still be incalculably reasonabler, as republicans, than those well-governed monarchists. Some of us are apt to forget the immense advantage which we have of the monarchical peoples in having cast away the very name of King, for with the name goes the nature of royalty and all...
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The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...work our way through the examples, and fill up each of them: there is a kind of symmetry going on...The moral equality of combatants: 2 More on Walzer’s theory of self-defence - Walzer’s key point is that soldiers are ‘dangerous men’. On his line of argument, equal liability comes from equality of threat; what it is that makes it permissible for me to kill you is...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Introduction to polymers
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to polymers

...working in the USA and Britain. These first condensation products of the controlled reactions between phenol and formaldehyde produced hard but relatively weak and brittle materials. Swinburne commercialised his resin as a range of varnishes but Baekeland mixed the resin with significant amounts of woodflour to produce the first polymer composite – Bakelite . It was the...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...work? The greater part of the Earth’s atmosphere is in the lower atmosphere, and when dry it is made up almost entirely of three gases: nitrogen, with 78% (78 parts out of 100) by volume; oxygen (21%); and an inert gas, argon, making up most of the remainder. These three gases do not interact significantly with heat (i.e. infra-red) radiation from the Sun or the Earth....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
An introduction to electronics
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to electronics

...work in the Firefox and Chrome browsers, so you will need to use one of these browsers if you want to access the interactive content. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course T212 Electronics: sensing, logic and actuation...An introduction to electronics: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: recognise a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...works, was the variety which evolved into the Romance languages: Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian and other languages. Whether two different linguistic varieties are deemed to be the same language or not is not wholly a linguistic issue, but relies upon political and cultural factors as well. Latin vocabulary survives in these languages, although sometimes...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis
Money & Business

Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis

...work surroundings, but also used the internet to gather more information about her own and other companies in the same line of business. She wrote the report in response to this assignment question: Assignment question Write a report analysing your organisation in its business environment, and the issues that are important to it at the present time. Use appropriate...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The gut microbiome: balancing the body
Science, Maths & Technology

The gut microbiome: balancing the body

...work out what the power should be, you simply count how many times you moved the decimal point. The composition of the gut microbiome changes throughout our lives. During the first 3 years of life our gut microbiome is formed and affected by various factors, such as breastfeeding, weaning and bacteria found in the local environment. As we age, two groups of bacterial...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs