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Dolly The Sheep: What happened next?
Science, Maths & Technology

Dolly The Sheep: What happened next?

...concepts in stem cell research. The endgame was never meant to be armies of genetically identical livestock: Rather, researchers continue to refine the techniques and combine them with other methods to turbocharge traditional animal breeding methods as well as gain insights into aging and disease. Not the usual sperm + egg Dolly was a perfectly normal sheep who became the...
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Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes

...concept that cultural identity is, as Stuart Hall, former professor of sociology at the Open University, once remarked, ‘always a matter of becoming as well as of being.’ [Map of MK] Map of Milton Keynes European Capital of Culture 2023 Milton Keynes has a brazen attitude to its own paradoxes. It calls itself a city, even though technically it is not. It is the mother...
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Queen Victoria on William Shakespeare
History & The Arts

Queen Victoria on William Shakespeare

...conception of this very difficult and I may almost say incomprehensible character, is admirable; his delivery of all the fine long speeches quite beautiful; he is excessively graceful and all his actions and attitudes are good, though not at all good-looking in face; the two finest scenes I thought were the play scene, which he acts, they say, quite differently to any...
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Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited
OpenLearn Ireland

Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited

...concept album as he ever got – with each song portraying the sleazy underbelly of a city and offering a tough, realist look at the constant fight between morality and survival. [Album cover - Rory Gallagher, "Defender"] Album cover for Defender. Source: Wikimedia Commons On the album’s opener, ‘Kickback City’, Gallagher perfectly captures the gritty urban...
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The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1
Nature & Environment

The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1

...concepts of interest to social scientists. The last point I want to make is, this is not just an academic book. I think it’s a public interest book. I've written it so that it is accessible and readable and it is in the practical world as well. Because I do try and say something about: okay, these are places of interest, but what do they tell us? What do they mean? Why...
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Understanding society: families
Education & Development

Understanding society: families

...concepts involved in the study of family life; show the connectedness that has developed over time between the work men and women do inside the home and women's role in paid employment use numerical data to show the diversity of family life in the UK and to provide a first opportunity at ‘reading’ numbers...Understanding society: Families: 1.1 Changes in women's...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Teaching mathematics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...concepts of number are understood. This is known as conceptual understanding. Richard Skemp, the late educational psychologist, described two different ways to learn about and understand mathematics (Skemp, 1973). The procedural and conceptual understanding described above helps learners to understand how and why mathematical processes work. Skemp termed this relational...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
The use of force in international law
Society, Politics & Law

The use of force in international law

...concepts of ‘just and unjust war’ emerged. The distinction between the two can be traced back to ancient Rome and the Fetials (fetiales), a group of priests who were responsible for maintaining peaceful internal and external relations and who gave rise to fetial law (ius fetiale) – religious law regarding the process of creation, interpretation and application of...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs