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For some people, staying awake might help fight depression
Health, Sports & Psychology

For some people, staying awake might help fight depression

...simple as staying awake overnight bring about such a transformation? Unpicking the mechanism isn’t straightforward: we still don’t fully understand the nature of depression or the function of sleep, both of which involve multiple areas of the brain. But recent studies have started to yield some insights. The brain activity of people with depression looks different...
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Form and uses of language
History & The Arts

Form and uses of language

...simple: line 2 consists entirely of words of one syllable, and much of the rest of the poem is the same, with only one word of more than two syllables (‘incompetent’) in the whole poem. There are no unusual or unfamiliar words. Its simplicity is almost exaggerated. Interestingly, though, he did not spell out an explicit message in this poem. If you feel that you have...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...simple fare. The hosts had had a busy day and did not have time to shop or cook. The hosts did not think the occasion was particularly special. His hosts wanted him to try a traditional German meal. Activity 6 The best way to avoid unhelpful cultural generalisations is to find ways of checking whether your assumptions are correct. Think of three ways in which the author...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...code of conduct, influencing their experiences and perceptions and mediated by the values and their culture. Naturally these answers are articulated in different styles, but the word ‘good’ appears explicitly in all of them, which is particularly interesting. Did you include the term in your own definition as well? Activity 2 Having now read the activity comments for...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...simple prescription for being a good leader; yet there are some characteristics that most effective leaders have in common...Groups and teamwork: 2.1 What is a group? - Our tendency to form groups is a pervasive aspect of organisational life. As well as formal groups, committees and teams, there are informal groups, cliques and cabals. Formal groups are used to organise...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...simple tongue twister: ‘Smelly shoes and socks shock sisters’ and then encouraging him to copy them. In just a few days his pronunciation has improved and Tomos has found the activity – the learning experience – to be enjoyable, probably because he finds it funny, having a sister to shock with smelly shoes and socks. Vygotsky, like Piaget, argued that children...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
IT: Information
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: Information

...coding and even incorporated data compression with a form of what we now call 'run length coding' – not much is really new, is it? This development enabled pictures to accompany the telegraphed or telephoned reports from many major cities in Europe and the US. As a consequence, the newspapers prospered and fortunes were made by the now infamous press barons whose...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
How far was the Brexit vote "the will of the people" - and what does that mean?
Society, Politics & Law

How far was the Brexit vote "the will of the people" - and what does that mean?

...simple majority, … Democracy entails an elected government, subject to certain checks and balances such as the common law and the courts, and an executive ultimately responsible to parliament, whose members are entitled to vote according to conscience and common sense.’[i] However, as I mentioned in an OxPol blog a week after the referendum: ‘While I again agree...
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