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The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on
Science, Maths & Technology

The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on

...care for the injured in hospital. Nonetheless, the survivors I met in Balakot regret that the experience of prolonged exposure to the aid machinery had left their communities culturally diminished. They have little faith in their civil administration or elected representatives. While some individual officials were singled out for praise, survivors said they saw no spirit...
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...adults view the world. (New case study.) David Elkind Where is yours? Where’s mine? Now do we both have the same to drink or does one of us have more? Girl I do. (New case study.) David Elkind But isn’t this higher than this one? I mean, this is up here and this is way down here – doesn’t that make this one more? Girl Well, this one may be taller but this one is...
Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...careful examination of the clues laid by the poet may lead to more questions than answers. You’ll start this course, then, with a question: is poetry simply about expressing feelings? People do turn to poetry in extremis. Prison inmates, often famously, have expressed loneliness and communicated with absent loved ones through poetry. Maybe this accounts for the...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
In smokiest Sheffield
History & The Arts

In smokiest Sheffield

...cares for the peace of my conscience, to make it a shilling; or, come! a half-crown, if he wishes to be truly handsome. It is astonishing how these regrets persist; but perhaps in this instance I owe the permanence of my pang to those frequent appeals to one's pity which repeated themselves in Sheffield. As I had noted at Liverpool I now noted at Sheffield that you cannot...
Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?

...care to be shouted down either. Some of the debate around Brexit has been inflammatory to say the least. The Daily Mail branded judges "enemies of the people" simply for ruling that Parliament should have the final say. Tory leadership contender Jacob Rees-Mogg has called Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, an ‘enemy of Brexit’ and also accused the BBC of an...
Diary of a Mars operations day
Science, Maths & Technology

Diary of a Mars operations day

...care of the long-term planning, who regularly compare the science goals of our mission with the investigations that we have already done and with everything we know about the terrain ahead of us, to work out strategic guidelines on what we want to do in the next few weeks. A colleague from this team will provide an update on strategic guidance for our decisions during...
Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...caring for this style (as this style is often considered incorrectly as ‘dirty’ and about not washing hair or allowing it to just become matted) are Locticians. [Lux advert - text: 'Lux won't shrink wool', illustration is a black woman pouring the product on a black child's hair]Nineteenth-century US advertisement. Show me the money Madame C.J. Walker, the first Black...
Picturing the family
History & The Arts

Picturing the family

...careful interpretation understand the importance of contextualisation in analysing photographs...Picturing the family: 1 How to avoid damage when handling photographs - Remember to treat your photographs with the consideration demanded by their age and fragility. Careless handling and storage will cause damage. Handle photographs at the edges: the skin carries chemicals...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs