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Studying mammals: The insect hunters
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The insect hunters

...mode of feeding, speed is essential. Let's think for a moment of the features of the water shrew that can be regarded as adaptations for swimming under water. First, oily fur prevents the coat from becoming waterlogged during a dive, and traps air bubbles. The water shrew's oversized feet with hairy ankles and digits act like flippers while the animal is submerged. If a...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...and case studies - [Described image] Figure 6 The exemplary city: damage to the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, in 1871, following the collapse of the Paris Commune. Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Paris is a basic reference point for modern urban theory There is a clear relationship between causal generalisation and the use of empirical case studies underlying Harvey’s explanatory narrative. The explanatory analysis ......
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
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Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...mode of transport (get off the train, get into the plane), etc. In short, you first need to see the big picture, before you can fill in the details. When writing a text that has argumentation (another way to say that it has a reasoned conclusion), there are techniques and tools to figure out the big picture first. A key tool that you can use is that of an argument map....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Developing a research question in International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Developing a research question in International Relations

...modes of subjectivity constituted so as to make possible United States interventionist policies in the Philippines circa 1950?’ There are three mechanisms Doty identifies by which subjects are constituted: presupposition, predication and subject positioning. Presupposition means the assumptions you make about reality. Who are the important actors in world politics? How...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for leadership
Money & Business

Hybrid working: skills for leadership

...De Stobbeleir (2022) quip: ‘functioning optimally in a hybrid working environment requires more than just good Wi-Fi and an ergonomic office chair at home’. Leaders must recognise that different skills will be needed to support their employees and managers. Hybrid meetings – to build bridges between those in the office and those working at home – are tricky;...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Energy in buildings
Nature & Environment

Energy in buildings

...mode of heating in UK homes well into the 1960s. These homes weren’t very warm – a survey in 1949–50 showed average whole-house temperatures ranging from 12.4°C to 14.2°C (Danter, 1951). With the introduction of North Sea gas in the 1970s there also came gas-fired central heating. The proportion of the housing stock with central heating rose from 31% in 1970 to...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Is science fiction a field in its own right?
History & The Arts

Is science fiction a field in its own right?

...de Siècle Magazines.” Science and Literature: The Great Divide?, special issue of MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, vol. 7, 2013, pp. 33–40. Tippett, Benjamin K., and David Tsang. “Traversable Achronal Retrograde Domains In Spacetime.” arXiv preprint, 4 Nov. 2013, arxiv.org/abs/1310.7985. Willis, Martin. Literature and Science: Readers’ Guides to Essential...
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Herodotus and the invention of history
History & The Arts

Herodotus and the invention of history

...de Dieu by Maître François, between 1475 and 1480 CE. That is not all. This is also a story about Herodotus’ brand of history. At first glance, this episode, on which Herodotus leads on seems curiously trivial, even gossipy. Yet by taking us into the bedroom Herodotus promises insight into power dynamics that have repercussions for an entire kingdom and beyond. Much...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs