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David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...articulate and reasoned discussion of a familiar topic examine set readings and appreciate some of its necessary background information...David Hume: 1 Prelude: Hume's death - In mid-August 1776 crowds formed outside the family home of David Hume. Hume was a pivotal figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, and his imminent death was widely anticipated. The crowds were...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Methods in Motion: Politics is awash with large emotions... isn't it?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Politics is awash with large emotions... isn't it?

...Le Pen’s fury at the state of France. It’s difficult to look anywhere and see politics as anything other than a sea of turbulent feelings, which poses several problems for social scientists interested in making sense of contemporary social action and political life. The first is how do we know how people feel? Surveys – whether opinion polls or sociological...
Sgwrsio am Brifysgol - podlediad am y profiad myfyrwyr go iawn
Education & Development

Sgwrsio am Brifysgol - podlediad am y profiad myfyrwyr go iawn

...le bynnag yr ydych yn cael eich podlediadau. Os hoffech wrando arno nawr, cliciwch y dolenni isod. Pennod 1: A yw’r brifysgol yn addas i mi? Mae cymaint o bethau i’w hystyried y dyddiau hyn cyn penderfynu a yw bywyd prifysgol yn addas i chi. Yn y bennod gyntaf hon rydym yn trafod ystod o faterion a fydd efallai’n eich helpu chi i wneud y penderfyniad cychwynnol...
Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?
Society, Politics & Law

Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?

...articulate their more personalised, spontaneous responses to scientific messages. This can mean, as in the case of the readers’ comments discussed above, the circulation of pejorative or reactionary statements that would not satisfy the editorial restrictions of more formal media outlets. However, in our study blogs and comments also offered a platform for objecting to...
Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator
Languages

Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator

...articulating the same message in another tongue. The process required an extraordinary blend of sensory, motor and cognitive skills, all of which had to operate in unison. She did so continuously and in real time, without asking the speaker to slow down or clarify anything. She didn’t stammer or pause. Nothing in our evolutionary history can have programmed Pinkney’s...
To restore or not to restore?
History & The Arts

To restore or not to restore?

...le-Duc, undertook a process of restoration which was completed only in 1910. Carcassonne is now a major tourist attraction – people come to marvel at what is seen as ‘an excellent example of a walled medieval city’. Much of what people see, however, is 19th-century reconstruction – in a sense, Carcassonne is no more a medieval city than Cinderella’s castle in...
Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?

...articulate theories that would be most likely to find unexpected behaviour by juries. A second, somewhat related, reason is that we want to be able to use our research to make generalisations to other scenarios that we have not yet tested. A theory allows us to make inferences that 'go beyond the information given'. A policy maker would not be very impressed if each time...
Global English
History & The Arts

Global English

...articulation of 'th' may be of the mark of a native speaker, but is unimportant in Global English. On the other hand, the distinction between short and long vowels (eg the difference between 'sit' and 'seat') remains crucial to intelligibility. Second, there are pragmatic strategies used by any skilled cross-cultural communicator which need to be adopted even by native...
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