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Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...world come together in great numbers in your city, but especially the Greeks, whose first port of call as they sail from their own lands is Venice. They have besides a familiar relationship with you; when they put ashore at your city it seems that they are entering another Byzantium. 2 But as this course shows, the use of the term ‘the East’ to describe all cultures...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Dan Rees - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dan Rees - Earth in Vision

...world. And in conversations I’ve had with Sir David, that’s the thing I’ve taken away the most, his feeling is that perhaps what we don’t do enough is just do that, just go out and report on what we see in the world. You don’t put a value judgment on it, just go out there and show it, make it a compelling story, make it a good watch; you don’t have to tell...
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Video 30 mins
A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Education & Development

A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu

...world of a person whose courage, tenacity, love and humour helped change a nation for the better, influencing many around the world to stand for justice, truth, reconciliation and peace. What follows are my recollections of meeting and being in the presence of Archbishop Desmond Tutu at his beloved St George’s Cathedral, Cape Town. Context I grew up in the St George’s...
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Article 10 mins
Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research
Languages

Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research

...world and respond to it. He has inspired a determined, multifarious and playful approach to the process of finding a voice, contemplating fantasy worlds, investigating modes of performance and wrestling with the concept of identity. Bowie’s exploration of feelings of estrangement and his embodiment of alien creatures from the outer cosmos speak to all of us who, for...
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Article 5 mins
Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination
Society, Politics & Law

Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination

...world are integrally linked. The empirical evidence for this linkage is now copious. For example, using the largest extant database on the status of women in the world today, my colleagues and I found that the best predictor of a state’s peacefulness is not its level of wealth, its level of democracy or its ethno-religious identity. The best predictor of a state’s...
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Article 5 mins
Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins

...worlds. Their work brought them global reputations but the starting points, the essence of their writing to which they always returned, was life experience drawn from the margins and across the borders of different worlds.Raymond Williams’s early experiences in his village close to the Wales-England border were recurring themes in both his fiction and non-fiction...
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Article 10 mins
A year in review 2022
Education & Development

A year in review 2022

...world mourns for Queen Elizabeth II] Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II passed away at Balmoral after reigning for 70 years, Liz Truss wins the months-long Conservative leadership race to become Prime Minister, with her new cabinet being the most ethnically and gender diverse in history, and the Government controversially reversed England fracking bans to yield further energy...
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Article 5 mins
Am I In Control?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Am I In Control?

...world. Unfortunately, an individual's worth often passes unrecognised no matter how hard he tries The idea that teachers are unfair to students is nonsense. Most students don't realise the extent to which their grades are influenced by accidental happenings. Without the right breaks one cannot be an effective leader. Capable people who fail to become leaders have not...
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Article 10 mins