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Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...de La Mettrie (1709–1751), a physician with detailed knowledge of human anatomy, stated baldly that '... the human body is a self-winding machine, a living representation of perpetual motion'. SAQ 3 If human and animal bodies are essentially just machines, do you think anything follows from this? Answer If human and animal bodies are indeed merely very complex machines...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
World-Changing Women: Queen Nzinga
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Queen Nzinga

...de Souza. However, the treaty was short-lived and Nzinga escaped with her people further west, where they founded a new state at Matamba. In alliance with former rival states Nzinga led an army against the Portuguese, initiating a thirty year war. She achieved victory in 1647, aided by the Dutch, and encouraged rebellion within Ndongo, which was now governed through a...
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Article 5 mins
Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?
Society, Politics & Law

Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?

...Laing, for example, known for his consideration of delusions as valid accounts, gives the example of a friend who, some years earlier, had a psychotic episode in which he had “a voyage into inner space and time” and “at one time I actually seemed to be wandering in a desert landscape as if I were an animal … a kind of rhinoceros or something like that and emitting...
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Article 10 mins
Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...based methods in psychology...Living psychology: animal minds: 1 Everyday perspectives: animal minds - Humans have a tendency to interpret behaviour as goal-directed. They use this interpretation to arrive at explanations for that behaviour and about the people showing it, including their intentions, emotions, knowledge and so on. Psychologists have called these...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...De Spectaculis (‘On the Spectacles’), written to commemorate the inaugural gladiatorial games which were held in the amphitheatre over a period of 100 days in 80 CE. Martial’s poetry was often overtly flattering to his imperial patrons, as the celebratory tone of the opening poem in the collection makes clear: Let savage Memphis speak not of the Wonders that are her...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Olympics 2021: The story of how a small Shropshire town influenced the modern Olympic movement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Olympics 2021: The story of how a small Shropshire town influenced the modern Olympic movement

...de Coubertin who revived the modern Olympic Games there were in fact many Olympic events taking place throughout Europe before Coubertin was even born. One of these, set in the small Shropshire town of Much Wenlock, has been widely considered by sports historians as one of the key influences on the modern Olympics, and even delegates for the Tokyo 2020’s organising...
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Article 10 mins
A new layer: Culture, the Irish language and identity in 2015
OpenLearn Ireland

A new layer: Culture, the Irish language and identity in 2015

...de thríocha bliain i ndiaidh sin, sa dóigh gur bheartaigh mé féin agus an Dr Seosamh Watson tionscnamh a bhunú le hiarracht a dhéanamh moill a chur ar an chreimeadh teanga. I 1984, nuair a thosaigh Oideas Gael, thiocfadh linn siúl trasna an bhealaigh go Tigh Bhiddy agus gan ach Gaeilge a chluinstin ón fhoireann agus ón chuideachta ann. Sa lá inniu (2015) tá an...
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Video 5 mins
Child mental health: is it in crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Child mental health: is it in crisis?

...based on the real-life experiences of a service user of a child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS)...There is much discussion about the issue of children and young people’s mental health problems in the media, and we often hear this issue referred to as a ‘crisis’. But what does the evidence say? Are rates of mental health problems rising? In this free...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs