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Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...cast of your story.) Flat characters have few traits, all of them predictable, none creating genuine conflicts. Flat characters often boil down to stereotypes: fat, doughnut-eating cop; forgetful professor; lecherous truck driver; … shifty-eyed thief; anorexic model. Using these prefab characters can give your prose a semblance of humor and quickness, but your story...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...aluminium foil-- literally trying to change the albedo of a whole patch of the Earth-- or of the Greenland ice sheet. So covering the Greenland ice sheet in some kind of reflective blanket and that would protect the ice sheet as well as having the albedo effect. People have talked about choosing or genetically modifying crops to be lighter, so kind of a lighter green so...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains

...cast. You try to put them on the street so that they feel that they’re there. And if we get that right, then they’re deep in that book and they’re going to stay in that book until they’re done with it. TEXT ON SCREEN Have you ever created an amoral world (i.e. a world which is entirely morally deviant, as opposed to a world where just some of the characters are...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Supporting climate action through digital education
Education & Development

Supporting climate action through digital education

...casts doubt on whether the changes in readers’ beliefs and attitudes about climate change have lasting impact (Schneider-Mayerson et al., 2023), these studies are limited to the North American context with participants who are paid to take part. Educators in other parts of the world offer a more nuanced picture. For example, the inclusion of the Indigenous climate...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
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Money & Business

Internships and other work experiences

...cast you in a negative light. Tags with your name can come up in online searches. Either untag yourself, ask friends to untag you or investigate how the platform allows you to disable other people from tagging you in the first place. Find and close any old social media accounts. If you’ve forgotten what they are, try a service like Deseat.me which aims to help you find...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Cànan nan Gàidheal (Gaelic language)
Languages

Cànan nan Gàidheal (Gaelic language)

...sand is a fair field for this sport and exercise in which they take great pleasure and are very nimble at it; they play for some eggs, fowls, hooks and tobacco; and so eager are they for victory that they strip themselves to their shirts to obtain it.’ Camanachd air feadh an t-saoghail Tha camanachd cho sean ’s a ghabhas agus chan eil taobh phroifeiseanta air le...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...cast no aspersions on Lord Hardie’s judicial integrity. In our scenario the judge should not hear the case. c.The facts are based on similar facts in Lawal v Northern Spirit [2003] UKHL 35, whereby an advocate who had returned to his own practice having been chair of an EAT found himself appearing as an advocate before lay members of an EAT, with whom he had worked...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Law and change: Scottish legal heroes Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Law and change: Scottish legal heroes

...cast any doubt on their complete impartiality, and that judges should avoid issues which were or might become politically controversial’. Lord Hope of Craighead was appointed as Lord President of the Court of Session in 1989 and became one of the founding justices of the UK Supreme Court on 1 October 2009. As Lord President, he controversially permitted an experiment in...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs