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Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class

...money, grow confident, build families - and still have time for community life from watching affordable football to singing Bach, Handel and Mendelsohn in the chapel down the road from the mill. Margaret Thatcher was strong on preaching "personal responsibility", preferring to attribute her own affluent success to the virtues imbibed in the Grantham shop than to her...
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Can we overcome cyber-fatigue to secure ourselves online?
Digital & Computing

Can we overcome cyber-fatigue to secure ourselves online?

...money and even temporary disruption, all of which we must be willing to endure to achieve long-term benefits. For example, we should not create new – and likely redundant – government organizations, policies or complex frameworks about internet security. Instead, we should reduce their numbers and complexity, giving the ones that remain more policy latitude to handle...
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Adam Peaty: the family behind the athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

Adam Peaty: the family behind the athlete

...money who can afford physio or therapists, and these kids turn up with all the kit. Not everyone is equal. But if anything, it made me more determined to make the most of what I did have and give 110% in training." Adam Peaty, GB Swimmer [Adam Peaty Rio 2016] Peaty’s success demonstrates that although environmental factors such as financial support can be influential...
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It’s all in a name: why I refuse to use a ‘white’ name
Society, Politics & Law

It’s all in a name: why I refuse to use a ‘white’ name

...money was good. I could not help thinking that after 10 years of friendship, did I really know Jas at all? The justification for being called Dave did not settle well with me. Jas did not seem to see the bigger issue here when he casually responded, ‘Mate everyone is doing this, you will too’. I could have lost my train of thought at this point, but I wanted to...
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Get ready for beginners’ French Badge icon
Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...business context (with your new customers), as part of daily life (e.g. shopping with your relatives in France), as a tourist (e.g. asking for directions or booking a hotel in Quebec), or just as part of your studies. What sort of language will you be reading or listening to? Will it be formal business French, informal conversations, short interactions with shop owners,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...Business Dialogue in Germany. He is a co-founder and the Chief Technical Officer of Grindhouse Wetware, an open-source biotech company based in his hometown of Pittsburgh that pushes the boundaries of implantation, often with Cannon himself as the main experimentee. [Sketch of a cyborg] “The peripheral nervous system is a place that we’re going to be going in probably...
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IT in everyday life
Science, Maths & Technology

IT in everyday life

...business and we should not take this too seriously. However, most technological change does not happen overnight. As you work through the rest of this course, you will develop your understanding of the basic principles and processes involved in IT systems. This will put you in a better position to distinguish between fact and science fiction...IT in everyday life: 2.1...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision

...business, so this is just another piece of television, whereas we don’t think of it as another piece of television. The other reason is there aren’t that many shows these days that are made about one place. When I made a show on the Sultan of Oman and I could take those rights and I could do something clever with them, we rarely do that now, so it’s usually a more...
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