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Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...ENGLISH SPEECH] What type of family is this? STUDENTS [NON ENGLISH SPEECH] A big family! TEACHER [NON ENGLISH SPEECH] Will they be short of food? STUDENTS [NON ENGLISH SPEECH] Yes! HANS ROSLING You could hardly miss the point of this lesson. TEACHER [NON ENGLISH SPEECH] What type of family is this? STUDENTS [NON ENGLISH SPEECH] A small family! ......
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...English novelist living in Paris. Before operating in 1811, d’Arblay’s doctor didn’t shield her from the gruelling pain she would encounter during the treatment for her advanced breast cancer – a mastectomy, without anaesthetic. “You must expect to suffer, I do not want to deceive you—you will suffer—you will suffer very much!” d’Arblay later wrote that...
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Article 5 mins
Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision

...English. Transcript Earth in Vision Project My name is Ade Thomas and I am the founder of Green.TV which is an online platform for publishing sustainability, clean tech and conservation video content. This is what I do So, Green.TV’s mission is to communicate conservation, clean tech and sustainability issues. We do that via what we call a multichannel publishing...
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Video 30 mins
The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies
Health, Sports & Psychology

The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies

...English girl with long fair hair and blue eyes. But, as childhood friends do, we grew apart. Maybe we’d have grown together again if another ambulance hadn’t come and taken Jonny away. His brother told me about it afterwards. It happened at a house party. With a few drinks in him, he’d got upset, disappeared and taken another lot of tablets. By this time, his mother...
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Article 15 mins
Murals in Belfast
OpenLearn Ireland

Murals in Belfast

...English throne. The dominant image in these murals was of ‘King Billy’ astride his white horse crossing the River Boyne (left). The Nationalist/Republican tradition of mural paintings, on the other hand, dates only from the beginning of the 1980s, though attempts to claim territory through painting slogans, for example, pre-dated mural paintings. The late development...
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Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver
Education & Development

Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver

...English language needs in partnership with the University of Manchester. We worked in partnership with the University of Salford by taking social work students on placements so that they gained first-hand experience of the ordeals facing families in the city and across the country. We provided a space where young mothers could learn to cook healthy and nutritious meals...
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Cànan nan Gàidheal (Gaelic language)
Languages

Cànan nan Gàidheal (Gaelic language)

...English tongue amongst the latter. One half of Scotland speaks Irish and all these as well as the Islanders … belong to the Wild Scots. In dress, in the manner of their outward life, and in good morals, .. these come behind the householding Scots.’ Ged a rinn e soilleir, mar a rinn Goill eile na latha, nach robh spèis mhòr sam bith aige do na Gàidheil, sgrìobh e...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Teaching the First World War
Education & Development

Teaching the First World War

...English in 1952. Albertini puts the main responsibility for the outbreak of war squarely on Germany’s shoulders. However, there had been little interest in his work and certainly nothing to suggest a huge debate might soon erupt on this topic. The most important challenge to the established post-war consensus that the war had been an accident came from a German...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs