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Entrepreneurial Lives
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial Lives

...resource acquisition, and the fascinating, messy realities of entrepreneurs are themes explored in this series by Dr. MariaLaura Di Domenico of The Open University... Invisible Boundaries: When Home is the Business MariaLaura examines the challenges of running a home-based business, the coping strategies used - including time / spatial management - and the need to act-out...
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Audio 1 hr 17 mins
Should we read John Locke today?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...human nature and universal value. ‘Men being … by Nature, all free, equal and independent’, he argues, ‘no one can be put out of this Estate, and subjected to the Political Power of another, without his own Consent’ (John Locke, page 330, "Second Treatise of Government," in Two Treatises of Government, 1689). Locke’s ideas were highly influential in his time...
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Article 10 mins
Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...resources and approaches to support students’ learning...Teaching secondary geography: 1 How do young people learn about geography? - If you asked a selection of adults or young people to tell you what ‘learning geography’ involves what do you think they would say? Many people see geography as a subject concerned with remembering the names of places and landforms,...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment
Nature & Environment

Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment

...resource. If polluting discharges to a river are intermittent, the river is often able to return to a clean and unpolluted condition as the pollutants are flushed out and carried down to the sea. In addition, because of the organisms present (e.g. bacteria capable of breaking down organic matter), river water has some capacity for self-purification – unless too many of...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...human hosts...Vaccination: 1.1 The smallpox virus - Undoubtedly, one of the great success stories of modern medicine has been in the field of vaccination against infectious diseases. There is no more compelling example than smallpox. It is hard now to imagine the impact of smallpox, which killed 10–50% (sometimes more) of the people it infected and wiped out whole...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Earth In Vision: A Collection
Nature & Environment

Earth In Vision: A Collection

The Earth in Vision project explores the BBC archives of environment themed television and radio programmes from the last 70 years, looking at the potential of these archives as a digital resource as well as to illustrate the potential of digital broadcast archives for researchers.
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Video 3 hrs
Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius
History & The Arts

Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius

...Humanism) learning. A number of its chancellors were scholars, who advanced the concept that learning could be applied to the running of public affairs. It was a city famous for its financial and political shrewdness and its exceptional craft skills. These factors gave the people of Florence a renewed confidence and belief in their city. The famous banking family, the...
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Article 30 mins
Do dogs want to go to heaven?
History & The Arts

Do dogs want to go to heaven?

...humans alone are able to go to heaven, what is it that makes us unique? Is the difference between humans and other species one that might be considered “religious”? For example, do humans have different kinds of soul or spirit to other animals? On the other hand, if animals can achieve enlightenment or enter paradise, in what other ways are they like us? Are the...
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Article 10 mins