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John Napier
Science, Maths & Technology

John Napier

...double of its denomination, as, whoever multiplies 8 which is a third number by itself, it comes to 64 which is a sixth. And 16 which is a fourth number multiplied by itself should come to 256, which is an eighth. And whoever multiplies 128 which is the 7th proportional by 512 which is the 9th, it should come to 65 536 which is the 16th. Chuquet made the same observation...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Icarus: entering the world of myth
History & The Arts

Icarus: entering the world of myth

...double bluff in Auden’s focus on Icarus in the second stanza, in that he paradoxically restores him to centre stage. Riffaterre makes the interesting point that ‘Auden’s melodramatic focusing on a child’s death eliminates the artist’s symbolism’ (p. 10). I think what Riffaterre is getting at is the choice Auden has made to restore the poignancy of Ovid’s...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...et alone the countless requests for information made to search engines every day. Fortunately, researchers have been examining how people use information from search engines. You will now look at an example regarding children’s health...Introducing computing and IT: 4.1 Childhood vaccinations - Childhood vaccinations are a routine part of life but, in recent years,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The business of film
History & The Arts

The business of film

...double-edged sword. It's great that you can encourage inward investment into the UK from the studios, and that there a means in which to do that, but you have to accept it the indigenous industry, as it were, is only a thing of a certain size. If it takes a lot of inward investment from the studios, it inevitably constricts the space within which the indigenous industry...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Continuity and learning
Education & Development

Continuity and learning

...et al., 2011) As you read the case study about Anne Wakelin, note the way in which her experiences are framed by the concepts of ‘plot’ and ‘learning potential’. Two things in particular strike us with regard to this reading. First, that the teller of a life story has some choice about how their story is constructed. This is not to suggest that the person telling...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Understanding service improvement in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding service improvement in healthcare

...et al., 2010). Skill training and personal development become central when demands on service change or increase, when roles are altered and resources are updated. Investment in skills by individual practitioners and their employers is necessary if the service is to remain responsive and able to seize new opportunities. Activity 4 Make a note in the box below regarding...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...circulation patterns. Imagining a world where ice was denser than water and sank, rather than floated, consider these questions: What might the consequences be for aquatic life? How might denser ice affect small-scale bodies of water, like ponds and lakes? How might denser ice affect oceans? Could denser ice have far-reaching effects on the evolution of life?...Week 2:...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The use of force in international law
Society, Politics & Law

The use of force in international law

...et al., 2006, pp. 47–8) The doctrine of ‘just war’ was further influenced by Christian theologians such as St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, the latter famously stated in Summa Theologica that the three criteria for just war are: it should be waged by a sovereign authority (prohibition of waging a private war) it must have a just cause (punishment of wrongdoers)...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs