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Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...simple relationship between levels of monoamines and depression. The next section considers an even more significant problem with the monoamine hypothesis, one that has fuelled much research and has led to a more sophisticated chemical and molecular hypothesis for the aetiology of depression...Understanding depression and anxiety: 4.4 The neurotrophic hypothesis of mood...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Do you trust forensic science in the criminal justice system?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Do you trust forensic science in the criminal justice system?

...simple presence of traces of evidence may identify an individual or an object but will not necessarily determine how those traces got to the place from where they were recovered. Similarly, the absence of traces such as fingermarks or DNA does not necessarily rule out the involvement of an individual (as they could have been wearing gloves, for example)...Week 1 Trusting...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Understanding language and learning
Languages

Understanding language and learning

...simple commands: ‘you come here’, ‘you put him down’, ‘don’t touch him’, in order to get people to do things for her. Although in mature adult speech, commands are often expressed as either imperative clauses in which the subject (you) is absent – e.g. ‘come here’ – or expressed indirectly through interrogative clauses – e.g. ‘Could you come...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
How does Coronation Street bring politics home?
Society, Politics & Law

How does Coronation Street bring politics home?

...coding of the 10 episodes featuring the storyline uncovered four key themes: race, gender, fear, and political agency. By continually returning to these themes without offering any resolution, the soap stages everyday life as a complex constellation of global forces, including those of globalisation and migration. The imagined world of Coronation Street supplies resources...
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How scientists found rare fireball meteorite pieces on a driveway – and what they could teach us
Science, Maths & Technology

How scientists found rare fireball meteorite pieces on a driveway – and what they could teach us

...code, remember to close gates and don’t tread in anything soft. But in the time of a pandemic, everything changes. The UK government currently forbids citizens from travelling far from home, unless the travel is essential. Was it essential for a group of meteoriticists to travel to Winchcombe? Yes, it was. Each had completed fieldwork risk assessments and received...
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Think entertainment is violent today? The Victorians were much, much worse
Society, Politics & Law

Think entertainment is violent today? The Victorians were much, much worse

...code increased the public’s desire for such “artwork”. Fewer people, and essentially only murderers, were hanged by the accession of Queen Victoria, so the rarity of an execution combined with the sensational nature of the crime whetted public appetites. Highly decorative broadsides were printed to inform about and commemorate in prose, verse and image the crime,...
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Article 10 mins
What is the evidence that King Edward VIII was a Nazi sympathiser?
History & The Arts

What is the evidence that King Edward VIII was a Nazi sympathiser?

...code breakers at Bletchley Park came across a telegram from Hitler, saying: “The Führer attaches importance to the Duke of Coburg, on no account falling into enemy hands.” This was one of Hitler’s famous “Nero orders”, an indirect sentence of death. The secrets Hitler and Coburg shared seemed to be so important that they needed to be hidden from public view....
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Article 10 mins
Can yoga help us achieve sustainable development goals?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can yoga help us achieve sustainable development goals?

...code of conduct for individuals. Out of these so-called eight “limbs” of yoga, three are better known than others. These are asanas (physical postures), pranayama (breathing exercises) and dhyana (meditation). The remaining five are less well-known. These are yamas (ethical restraints), niyamas (ethical observances), pratyahara (withdrawal of senses), dharana...
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Article 5 mins