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Astronomy: images of the Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy: images of the Universe

...class of nebulae provided a useful distinction between unresolved (point-like) and resolved (extended) structures. Figure 8 shows some hand-drawn sketches of nebulae dating to the early nineteenth century. It is apparent that they do not all show the same structure: there are various different types of fuzzy, extended – and in some cases a little peculiar – objects...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Judicial decision making
Society, Politics & Law

Judicial decision making

...Class sketch’ (see Figure 10 overpage), if a court looks down on other courts, it is more influential than a court that looks up to other courts...Judicial decision making: 8.2 The judicial hierarchy - [Described image] Figure 10 The ‘Class sketch’ featuring Ronnie Corbett as working class, Ronnie Barker as middle class, and John Cleese as upper class. In the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...class Indian households living in air-conditioned apartments and owning a television, refrigerator and motor scooter, or perhaps a car (Figure 11(a)), and the household of a subsistence farmer, whose only fuel is dried cow dung for cooking, and perhaps kerosene for a lamp (Figure 11(b)) in Africa, the contrast between the elite, who may have a private swimming pool, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...de Bondt, 1998). Even within the field of financial economics, there is increasing interest in developing theories of market behaviour which take better account of how people really make decisions (e.g. see Fenton-O'Creevy et al., 2004). One of the leading exponents of this emerging field of behavioural finance, Werner de Bondt, suggests that: For at least forty years...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Exploring equality and equity in education
Education & Development

Exploring equality and equity in education

...class and socio-economic structures in society. We will explore the ways in which taken-for-granted categories are socially constructed (for example, teachers’ assumptions about different types of learners) later in the course. After you have read the article, see what you can find out about Connell’s 1987 book (see the reference list) and the stance it takes in...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Children and happiness
Education & Development

Children and happiness

...de Haan discusses the relationship between children and happiness...[Happiness pictured by 6 year-old Piers from Silverstone Infants School] What makes children happy? ‘That’s easy,' you might say, ‘a new toy, an ice cream or a trip to the amusement park.’ While these things bring an immediate smile to many children’s faces, they are probably not the things that...
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Article 10 mins
On a Wing and a Prayer: A case study
Society, Politics & Law

On a Wing and a Prayer: A case study

...de Jong, Umut Erel and Olga Jurasz. Olga: Alia what inspired you to make On a Wing and a Prayer? Alia: I had been asked by Goldsmiths’ Methods Lab to respond to John Berger’s book A Seventh Man, which is a portrait of guest workers in the European Union in the late ‘60s and ‘70s. There is a point in the book where Berger describes the building of a tunnel...
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Article 5 mins
Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)
Science, Maths & Technology

Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)

...DE ANGELIS, M. H. & COTMAN, S. L. 2012. Large-scale phenotyping of an accurate genetic mouse model of JNCL identifies novel early pathology outside the central nervous system. PLoS One, 7, e38310. WAGER, K., ZDEBIK, A. A., FU, S., COOPER, J. D., HARVEY, R. J. & RUSSELL, C. 2016. Neurodegeneration and Epilepsy in a Zebrafish Model of CLN3 Disease (Batten Disease). PLoS...
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Article 10 mins