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Psychological profiling
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological profiling

...human interactions and tends to remain localised and parochial to that activity until more and more concrete paradigms are experienced. Paul, are careers in psychological profiling generally available? Do have any more information? I'm seriously interested. Andre Hopper I think it must be an argument that people who commit serious crime have not developed empathy. Often...
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Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision

...human beings to have seen this creature for 360 million years! And that stuck with me. I think of it actually quite often, maybe once, twice a day sometimes, going back to that feeling that we’re part of this great continuity of life on Earth, and from that, from that interest in geology, I developed a more broad interest in natural history. What inspires me… The...
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Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...humanity’s foundational political units and were spoken of as such (Vitalis, 2015; Lake and Reynolds, 2008). The history of all the various nation states from north America, western Europe, southern Africa and Australasia were underpinned by racial ideas that licensed genocide, dispossession, exclusion and slavery. White frontier masculinities were valorised as...
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IT in everyday life
Science, Maths & Technology

IT in everyday life

...humans, some of which have materialised while others remain in the realms of science fiction. Now, domestic technologies such as dishwashers, microwaves and washing machines have become taken for granted in most UK households, but they are very different from the humanoid robots some people imagined. Activity 2 In the following extract, which was written in 2004, Ian...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Exploring Homer’s Odyssey
History & The Arts

Exploring Homer’s Odyssey

...humans would. [A large, footed, terracotta pot with two handles close to the base. The pot is decorated with figures painted in black, which contrasts with the terracotta-coloured background. In the centre are two warriors, depicted in profile, carrying round shields and pointing spears at one another. Both wear crested helmets. At their feet lies the naked body of a...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...resources that a given person or group can deploy in pursuit of their objectives, and the ability of individuals and groups to shape the discourses that people use when they communicate (and thus set agendas that others involved may accept as legitimate, fair and authoritative). A discourse in this sense may include a powerful idea or set of ideas, shared values and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...human figures. However, both artists do seem to have sought, wherever possible, to choose subjects that allowed them to display their virtuosity in their chosen field. While Reynolds admires the level of artistry and technical accomplishment to be found in the work of seventeenth-century Dutch painters, he notes that ‘their merit often consists in truth of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...resources to their criminalisation. Thus these state and media processes were seen to criminalise certain groups and not others, while attention was argued to be deflected from the inequalities that shape the underlying social problems. Furthermore, through placing the spotlight on the power of these institutions, these newer perspectives argued that it revealed how the...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs