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Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy
History & The Arts

Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy

...think of what is absent, unreal or even absurd, and so it appears to grant us almost unlimited conceptual powers. Yet it also seems to inform our perception of what is present and real and everyday, and so permeates the most basic levels of our daily lives. In this course, we will be concerned with some of the different ways in which the imagination is talked of and...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism
History & The Arts

How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism

...system. Rebecca Earle explains how...What we eat matters to us – but we’re not sure whether it ought to matter to anyone else. We generally insist that our diets are our business and resent being told to eat more fruit, consume less alcohol and generally pull our socks up when it comes to dinner. The efforts in 2012-13 by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg to ban...
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What can Earth tell us about Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can Earth tell us about Mars?

...think about a lot. We know that some areas of Mars have a higher probability of having sustained life in the past. Studying analogue sites on Earth is valuable because it helps us gather information that we can use to develop hypotheses about the habitability of Martian environments. Life has all sorts of survival strategies; on Earth we have seen organisms that survive...
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Language in professional life
Languages

Language in professional life

...Think for a moment on what one or two of these mean to you. You may have thought that ‘Ferrari’ denotes status symbols, ‘BBC’ conjures up solid reliability whereas IKEA has a practical vibe. All of these images and words in the figure are examples of brands. But what makes up a ‘brand’? Isn’t it mainly about the colours and logo? Where does language fit in?...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing

...think it is around: 5% 10% 20% 25% a. 5% b. 10% c. 20% d. 25% The correct answer is b. Answer The Nursing & Midwifery Council’s data report for 2020/2021 suggests that in the UK just over 10% of those on the nursing register are male (80,500) (Nursing & Midwifery Council, 2021). Select the answer for Question 1c here In the UK, what percentage of nurses work in...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Why do England fail in international football competitions?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do England fail in international football competitions?

...think the key point here is to not blame the FA in an individualised way, blaming their secretaries, and the emergence of the Football League in ’88 was a key point, why? Because it demonstrated the power of the professional football clubs at that point under the Football League and essentially created decentralised fragmentary structure and process for English football...
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How to become an ethical researcher
Education & Development

How to become an ethical researcher

...think about effective informed consent and assent and what do we mean? ...Effective informed consent and assent is at the heart of being an ethical researcher. Being an ethical researcher is about doing ‘good’ research in the ‘right’ way. Researchers often think about what ‘good’ research is from their own researcher point of view. But they don't think about...
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Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision

...think, but then I don’t think that’s in the least remarkable, I don’t know any four-year-old who’s not interested in the natural world, I truly don’t. I think that every child starts with a fascination of the world, whether it’s watching tadpoles change into frogs or splitting a rock and seeing a fossil inside or listening to birds, so I can’t say more than...
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