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Why Study Philosophers?
History & The Arts

Why Study Philosophers?

...working within what they call ‘the analytic tradition’. This is, unsurprisingly, a tradition that has used the techniques of analysis. Quite what counts as analysis is controversial, but one central method that has been used is the breaking down of complex concepts into simpler components. To take a typical philosophical example, one might start to wonder what...
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Rock Clocks
Science, Maths & Technology

Rock Clocks

...work back to the time when there was no daughter, but only the parent, and this give us the age of the rock. This process is called ‘radiometric dating’. Uranium is not the only element used in radiometric dating, there are others too, and between them we have been able to produce hundreds of dates for events in the Earth’s history. Even before radiometric dating...
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Subjugation and slavery: fake news in the nineteenth-century press
History & The Arts

Subjugation and slavery: fake news in the nineteenth-century press

...work in Buxton’s brewery as ‘they love to drink, but I believe would fire your brewery for a lark as they did burn my wash houses’. Their behaviour would not have been viewed as resistance to their continued enslavement, but as part of the ‘war’ that many slave-owners saw themselves involved in, living in communities where Africans so vastly outnumbered them....
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The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions
History & The Arts

The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions

...work of conversion, he started to study the local culture and beliefs but with ‘Christian Western eyes’. This tribe’s religious system was called Badimo, which in local language means ‘ancestors. During his work of conversion, Moffatt transmuted the concept of Badimo by renaming it as ‘devils’ (Comaroff, J., and Comaroff, J., 1991). Furthermore, in his report...
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Take away Science
History & The Arts

Take away Science

...working for the OU. The interviews are recorded by OU staff and the programme is hosted by Dr Mike Bullivant, also from the OU/BBC television series Rough Science. It's Elementary: A Chemist's View This podcast explores life at The Open University's Department of Chemistry and Analytical Sciences. We meet Dr Sotiris Missalidis, whose research into chemistry has...
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The importance of education for students in secure environments
Education & Development

The importance of education for students in secure environments

...work. Only nine of the 32 institutions inspected were judged to be good or outstanding. Specific challenges faced by SiSE learners Most students in secure environments struggle to have an equitable experience of higher education as they often have limited access to the internet and are therefore provided with an ‘offline pack’ of the materials they require from the...
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Studying natural sciences bilingually
Science, Maths & Technology

Studying natural sciences bilingually

...working on the management of the environment and natural resources – and so developing the ability to communicate with people who are involved in managing the natural environment is a really important thing to ensure that environmental policies are developed and supported by the general public, land managers and politicians. Studying the natural sciences in Welsh means...
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North Sea, air safety and Brexit
Nature & Environment

North Sea, air safety and Brexit

...worked on a North Sea oil platform during his early 20s, and has reported on the major successes and disasters of an industry which remains economically important to Scotland and the UK. But is the North Sea facing a new fight over who controls safety? Has it become a political battleground revealing just how difficult Brexit is going to be? Over the last 40 years almost...
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