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Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...c.350 BCE, Roman copy after a Greek original. Musei Vaticani, Rome. The portrait also nods to ancient sculpture in another way. The sitter’s pose is loosely based on a marble sculpture called the Apollo Belvedere (Figure 6), which shows the god Apollo as if he has just released an arrow from a bow. This connection between portrait and sculpture is a visual reference...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...LA Times Syndicate © Copyright © 1997 Wasserman, Boston Globe, LA Times Syndicate Figure 1 The internet increases productivity at work (or does it?) Other sceptics point to the possibility that the rise in US productivity has been due more to the increased flexibility of the US labour market than to any specific characteristics of information technology. OECD studies...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Seeing the light
Science, Maths & Technology

Seeing the light

...C. However, what is ‘comfortable’ also depends very much on what you are doing at the time; strenuous physical activity needs a much lower air temperature for comfort than sitting in a chair. Figure 2 shows in very simplified form the ‘comfort zone’ for sedentary activity, in terms of temperature and humidity. [Described image] Figure 2 The ‘comfort zone’ in...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Children’s experiences with digital technologies
Education & Development

Children’s experiences with digital technologies

...C. (2017) ‘Young children and tablets: A systematic review of effects on learning and development’, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 34(1), pp. 1–9. Available at: http://oro.open.ac.uk/ 55350/ (Accessed 12 May 2020). Herodotou, C., Sharples, M., Gaved, M., Kukulska-Hulme, A., Rienties, B., Scanlon, E. and Whitelock, D. (2019) ‘Innovative Pedagogies of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...c.1895. A ‘clinique’, or ‘firm’ as it was known in England, was made up of the students working with the staff of a particular hospital ward. Photographs like this appeared at the end of the century and are a visual representation of the new allegiances of medical students to their classmates, the schools and hospitals where they trained and their teachers. Such...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Understanding dyslexia Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...C., Kent, C., Clarke-Wilson, A., Laurillard, D. and Butterworth, B. (2020) Current Understanding, Support Systems, and Technology-led Interventions for Specific Learning Difficulties. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/specific-learning-difficulties-current-understanding-support-systems-and-technology-led-interventions (Accessed: 1 September 2025)....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Why do voters allow corrupt politicians to stay in office?
Society, Politics & Law

Why do voters allow corrupt politicians to stay in office?

...C. Diggs Jr. He was convicted to three years in prison on Oct. 7, 1978 for illegally diverting more than $60,000 – around $410,000 in present value – of his congressional employees’ salaries to his personal use. Yet, he remained on the ballot and exactly 30 days after his conviction won re-election to the US House of Representatives with 79 percent of the vote....
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Unparliamentary language: the benefits of swearing in politics
Languages

Unparliamentary language: the benefits of swearing in politics

...c***’ in the chamber of the Commons. Importantly, though, she wasn’t directing it at anyone. She was speaking in a debate about misogyny and describing the type of abuse she regularly receives on social media. In linguistics and philosophy, there’s a distinction here between ‘using’ a word and ‘mentioning’ it. By mentioning the word (i.e. quoting someone...
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