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Studying mammals: The social climbers
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The social climbers

...types of communication seen in anthropoids and explain how playback experiments contribute to understanding vocal communication compare and contrast adaptations in primates with adaptations in other mammals compare and contrast how species reduce the risk of predation and avoid competition with other species...Studying mammals: The social climbers: 1 The anthropoids - As...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...phrases like ‘other animals’, ‘nonhuman animals’ or ‘animals other than humans’ is a reminder that humans are also animals. These phrases interrupt the familiar linguistic separation of humans from animals and may seem jarring at first. This is deliberate: jarring language helps to create pauses to consider what is otherwise taken for granted (Dunayer, 2002)....
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
10 things that ended in 2006 (when OpenLearn was born)
History & The Arts

10 things that ended in 2006 (when OpenLearn was born)

...phrases such as 'crikey!' and 'Isn't she a beauty?', Steve Irwin AKA The Crocodile Hunter, was a wildlife expert, television personality and founder of Australia Zoo. Irwin died on 4 September 2006 after being pierced in the heart by a stingray barb in the Great Barrier Reef while filming an underwater documentary film titled Ocean's Deadliest. Take a look at the...
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Article 10 mins
Windrush generation latest to be stripped of their rights in the name of 'migration control'
Society, Politics & Law

Windrush generation latest to be stripped of their rights in the name of 'migration control'

...phrase which makes no sense. Little by little, people who had travelled to the UK without papers lost access to basic rights. In the 2000s, there was increasing use of the UK’s now notorious system of immigration detention, which in 2007 became a default for some. Amid the debates about the detention of terror suspects without trial, foreign nationals subject to...
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Article 5 mins
Why are today's progressive political heroes still old white men?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are today's progressive political heroes still old white men?

...phrase, “democratic socialism”). [Photograph with Jeremy Corbyn in the centre walking with a group of university aged people as a crowd. They are all looking off to the left of the image and the sun appears to b shining on them. In the bckground there is the lower facade of a shop and a bridge.] The next generation … and its icon. Gareth Fuller/PA More awkwardly...
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Article 10 mins
From boom to bust: the AI winter
Digital & Computing

From boom to bust: the AI winter

...phrase: "the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak” into Russian and then back into English to produce: "the vodka is good, but the meat is rotten”. One of highest profile failures of this first wave of AI lay the perceptron. First unveiled in 1958, the perceptron was a novel form of computer hardware emulating operations of a single brain cell. Lavishly funded by...
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Is America better than this?
Society, Politics & Law

Is America better than this?

...phrase ‘America First’ and styling himself on Andrew Jackson, Donald Trump has deliberately aligned himself with a vision of America that privileges white experience over all others. The rioters in DC thought nothing of filming themselves illegally entering and damaging the Capitol building, exposing their identities and giving interviews to the mainstream press. Why?...
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Article 10 mins
Getting started on ancient Greek
History & The Arts

Getting started on ancient Greek

...phrase ‘it is done’. However, many English speakers simply pronounce it like the ‘z’ in ‘zoo’. Ζευς (Zeus) strict: simplified: Activity 3 Speaking aloud (3) – mythological figures Timing: Allow about 5 minutes Say the names of these figures from Greek mythology, listen to the pronunciation, and repeat. Ἀθηνη Ἀνδρομαχη Ἀφροδιτη...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs