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How do you become French President?
Society, Politics & Law

How do you become French President?

...Le Pen National Front FN 6,421,426 17.90% Jean-Luc Mélenchon Left Front FG 3,984,822 11.10% François Bayrou Democratic Movement MoDem 3,275,122 9.13% Eva Joly Europe Ecology – The Greens EELV 828,345 2.31% Nicolas Dupont-Aignan Republic Arise DLR 643,907 1.79% Philippe Poutou New Anticapitalist Party NPA 411,160 1.15% Nathalie Arthaud Workers' Struggle LO 202,548...
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...circuits – those in the thalamus, the frontal lobe and the posterior medial complex – that are key to consciousness. At scientific meetings, Schiff has outlined a more detailed version of this neural structure, called the ‘mesocircuit’, which actually consists of two circuits linking the thalamus to the cortex. Some of the connections involved in the mesocircuit...
Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins

...Le Parrocchie di Regalpetra (published in the English edition as Salt in the Wound) was based on his experience as a schoolteacher in his hometown. His descriptions of poverty, fascism, and corruption in the Church and town hall were based on real events and became dominant themes in his later writing. Education informed their respective interrogations of wider cultures....
FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality
Science, Maths & Technology

FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality

...circuit board] [Photo of a face mask with some butterfly cutters] [Photo of some project work] [Photo of a battery attached to some lights] Feedback from students and teachers emphasised the empowering element of learning thorough activities that are engaging fun and playful and that fosters curiosity and engagement through making. Enthusiasm for a creative and fun...
CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne)
History & The Arts

CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne)

...Le Corbusier, one of the movement's founders, often liked to compare the standardised efficiency of the motor industry with the inefficiency of the building trade.) CIAM's early attitudes towards town-planning were stark: "Urbanisation cannot be conditioned by the claims of a pre-existent aestheticism; its essence is of a functional order… the chaotic division of land,...
Scottish nurses striking out
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish nurses striking out

...bb]Nurses Campaigning in George Square Glasgow, 2003, in pursuit of a pay rise. Image: Courtesy of Gordon McKay. [vv]Nurses rallying in Glasgow in front of the 'battle bus', 2003. Image: courtesy of Gordon McKay. Nurses fighting to defend pensions [Three nurses, all wearing casual clothes and face masks. With banners and placards stating their intention to strike]Scottish...
Getting started with Chinese 1
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 1

...le ma?) was actually one of the common greetings amongst neighbours. An appropriate response is to say ‘Chī le’ for ‘Yes’ or ‘Méi chī’ for ‘No’. Zăo ān (lit. morning peace), a common greeting in the morning in Taiwan. When parting from people, you say: Zàijiàn (lit. again see) Goodbye Note that although there are expressions in Chinese for ‘good...
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Asa Briggs and new maps of learning
History & The Arts

Asa Briggs and new maps of learning

...circuit television for classroom observation in teacher training, to record and play back lectures and to display teaching materials. The university also had audio-visual units, language laboratories and some programmed learning. Technology, Briggs felt, should be employed to enable collaborative learning and he promoted learning methods associated with this idea both at...