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What do safe drinking guidelines mean?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do safe drinking guidelines mean?

...simple summary of these curves might be that units are medicine, poison, poison, poison,..... . As two units is a standard glass of wine, which seems to leave you roughly quits, maybe best only to have a mouthful. If you can stick to that. Popular response to the announcement seems to have been, predictably, extremely varied. Although only 24% of men and 18% of women...
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Are you ready for online study?
Digital & Computing

Are you ready for online study?

...simple steps you can take to prepare for online study. Check your device to ensure it meets your course requirements. [Vector image of clipboard with checklist on it] For example, before starting an OpenLearn course, check the Frequently Asked Questions – Technical questions to make sure your device meets the requirements. This can help you avoid problems later. Test...
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Trouble in paradise: The Dutch golden age
History & The Arts

Trouble in paradise: The Dutch golden age

...simple lessons to live peacefully and cooperatively together. Miracles or special claims to being God’s chosen people were false – all human beings are equal by Nature, which is governed by universal laws that science and philosophy can discover. Everything else is a matter of private conscience. The TTP immediately caused a scandal, with one contemporary describing...
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Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...simple container of shower gel has required, if you think about it, interactions among lots of people engaged in an enormous range of activities. Activity 1 (exploratory) The soap used in a shower gel is usually made by reacting a fat (often a vegetable oil) with an alkali (a generic name for a type of chemical). In three minutes, write down as many
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
London inside out
Society, Politics & Law

London inside out

...simple story anyway cannot hold. For London is one of those places in which capitalist globalisation, with its deregulation, privatisation, 'liberalisation', is produced. Here we have also 'the local production of the global'. And yet a celebration of multiculturalism and a politics of anti-racism exist alongside a persistent obliviousness on the part of the majority of...
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Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work
Society, Politics & Law

Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work

...codes, the basic ethical principles remain the same. In the next activity, you will think about how these ethical principles can be applied to the research you will carry out in your project. Activity 2 Ethical principles on research projects Timing: You should allow yourself 25 minutes to do this activity. a.Watch the following video where Helen Kara outlines the basic...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...simple evaluations that can be done directly with or without an electronic calculator. Others need a line or two of algebraic analysis. Yet others are too tedious or too complicated to tackle without a computer-based approach using spreadsheets or more sophisticated software. In the end, the best motivation for learning comes from simply requiring the knowledge in order...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
How many different types of smile are there?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How many different types of smile are there?

...Coding System, written with Wallace V Friesen, seeks to create an atlas of nearly all possible human expressions. Ekman says, in his book Telling Lies, that their technique for measuring the face can distinguish over 50 different smiles. Confused? You’re not the only one. Perhaps the best approach is to just grin and bear it… This article was originally published by...
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