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The search for water on Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

The search for water on Mars

...artificial light sources and relatively flat. Remember that Mars’ location in the night sky is dependent on where you are on Earth, the time of year and the time of night. All planets are near the ecliptic, which is the imaginary line marking the Sun’s path across the sky, so keep an eye on where the Sun rises and sets and its path during the day and try to project...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Galaxies, stars and planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Galaxies, stars and planets

...intelligent life appear to be much more remote. Figure 17 Cosmic time, from the Big Bang, about 13.7 billion years ago, to the present. The first galaxies may have formed less than one billion years after the Big Bang. The Sun and the Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, when the Universe was about 9 billion years old...Galaxies, stars and planets: End-of-course...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Empowering communities
Money & Business

Empowering communities

...intelligence, being able to put words on your emotions and your lived-through experiences as helpful to deescalate different type of strong emotions but also managing conflicts or strained relations in constructive ways. So how do we communicate with people that we think differently with? How do we manage conflict? How do we manage stress? How do we manage different type...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...intelligible, although there are one or two dialect words (some of them related specifically to their profession) which might be a little obscure. ‘Dally’, for example, refers to a method of winding a rope around the saddle; while ‘ornery’ is originally a colloquial pronunciation of ‘ordinary’, and means ‘cantankerous’ or ‘mean’. There are also a few...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Approaching leadership with care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Approaching leadership with care

...intelligence, resilience and self-esteem. With the renewed insight you’ve gained, it can help you develop a broader, proactive approach to changes in your professional and personal life. Remember to always aim to maintain an appropriate balance, as being an effective and caring leader starts with caring for yourself...Approaching leadership with care: 6 Continuing your...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Understanding language and learning
Languages

Understanding language and learning

...intelligible entities such as Swedish, Norwegian and Danish are considered languages but the mutually incomprehensible Hokkien and Hakka are considered dialects of Chinese has more to do with politics and nation building than with empirical and linguistic facts. More specifically, there has been a conceptual shift which prompts us to move our gaze from languages as...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Language and creativity
Languages

Language and creativity

...Intelligence, having fun.’ WOMAN ‘The process of having original ideas that have value.’ MAN ‘Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.’ WOMAN ‘Creativity is not a capacity of special people, but a special capacity of all people.’ NARRATOR But perhaps it’s easiest to start by looking at the different contexts in which linguistic...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introduction to ecosystems
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to ecosystems

...artificially reinvigorate ecosystems. Mutual benefits DR. LEE SU SEE Well, the dipterocarps are one of the most important family of timber trees in Malaysia and Southeast Asia. This family consists of a very large number of species, many of which have very important value as commercial timber trees. NARRATOR Behind every great dipterocarp lies a team of tiny fungi....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs