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Curriculum

  • 5 Sections
  • 63 Lessons
  • Lifetime
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  • General life
    12
    • 1.1
      1. Why children’s lives have changed radically in just a few decades
    • 1.2
      2. The 15-Minute City: Where Urban Planning Meets Conspiracy Theories
    • 1.3
      3. The regional accentism that secretly affects job prospects
    • 1.4
      4. Is your name helping you or hurting you?
    • 1.5
      6. 7 Surprising Benefits of Exercise
    • 1.6
      7. The Oldest Handmade String, And It Wasn’t Crafted by Humans
    • 1.7
      10. The true story behind England’s tea obsession
    • 1.8
      12. The true story of the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? scandal
    • 1.9
      13. What Is Samhain?
    • 1.10
      14. Inside the Doomsday Vault
    • 1.11
      How to Stop Procrastinating at Bedtime and Actually Go to Sleep
    • 1.12
      The Home of FOMO
  • Work and Office Life
    14
    • 2.1
      1. Elevating Your Office Conflict Resolution Skills for Professional Success
    • 2.2
      2. How to write your LinkedIn Profile
    • 2.3
      3. Why Bringing Your Dog to Work Can Be Great for (Almost) Everyone
    • 2.4
      4. Six steps to improving mental wellbeing at work
    • 2.5
      5. A survival guide for working parents: how to balance family and career
    • 2.6
      6. Unlimited holiday time for workers
    • 2.7
      7. “Don’t Take It Personally” Is Terrible Work Advice
    • 2.8
      8. Managing oneself
    • 2.9
      9. Why You Hate Work
    • 2.10
      10. How the ‘lazy girl job’ took over work TikTok
    • 2.11
      11. It’s OK to not be passionate about your job + audio
    • 2.12
      12. Hustle Culture
    • 2.13
      A Brief History of the Modern Office
    • 2.14
      Remote work doesn’t have to be from home
  • Business
    1
    • 3.1
      2. Fine and punishment
  • Spain and United Kingdom
    6
    • 4.1
      1. Spain investigates ‘Big Four’ consultancy firms
    • 4.2
      8. Spanish Conquerors Used Indigenous Technology to Build Their Weapons
    • 4.3
      9. Charles the IV, King of Spain
    • 4.4
      11. Every British swear word
    • 4.5
      5. The evolution of the British home
    • 4.6
      Dinner, supper or tea?
  • Super Short Articles
    30
    • 5.1
      Benjamin Franklin only received two years of formal education.
    • 5.2
      Did you know instrument strings were made from animals?
    • 5.3
      Does music affect our heart rate?
    • 5.4
      Dreaming in black and white?
    • 5.5
      How do we know how fast sea levels are rising?
    • 5.6
      How much does IQ help a human to survive?
    • 5.7
      How much gold is there in the world?
    • 5.8
      It’s a myth that we only use 10 percent of our brains.
    • 5.9
      It’s against the law to die in the town of Longyearbyen, Norway.
    • 5.10
      Neil Armstrong didn’t say “That’s one small step for man.”
    • 5.11
      Queen Elizabeth II invented a new breed of dog.
    • 5.12
      Queen Elizabeth’s outfits
    • 5.13
      Some cats are allergic to people.
    • 5.14
      The anatomy of facial expressions
    • 5.15
      The Crown Jewels
    • 5.16
      The hashtag
    • 5.17
      The Olympic games were originally a religious festival.
    • 5.18
      What causes anaphylaxis?
    • 5.19
      What causes butterflies in the stomach?
    • 5.20
      What is the biggest object to be 3D printed?
    • 5.21
      Who won the first Nobel Prize and why?
    • 5.22
      Why can parrots talk?
    • 5.23
      Why can’t all plastic be recycled?
    • 5.24
      Why do some people get migraines?
    • 5.25
      Why do we get drunk?
    • 5.26
      Why Is America’s Drinking Age so High?
    • 5.27
      Why is chocolate bad for animals?
    • 5.28
      Why London buses are red
    • 5.29
      Why This 1969 Royal Family Documentary Was Pulled Off Air
    • 5.30
      Witzelsucht
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