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The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts
Society, Politics & Law

The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts

...les marchés. La Une du cahier éco ce vendredi pic.twitter.com/HHd388eVcu — LeMondeEcoEnt (@LeMondeEcoEnt) June 24, 2016 The independent website Médiapart used a brilliant oxymoron, describing the decision as a “welcome catastrophe” and arguing that Brexit offers a unique opportunity for reform of the long-criticised EU. The result highlighted how the political...
Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour
Digital & Computing

Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour

...de France. As was the case in January, the habits of everyday people continue to influence professional journalists: the apartment of a Le Monde editor, Daniel Psenny, overlooks the emergency exit of the Bataclan, and it was he who shot the vidéo seen more than 12 million times in a few hours. Social networking, social solidarity The public space that these digital...
Get your FREE human body augmented reality postcards
Science, Maths & Technology

Get your FREE human body augmented reality postcards

...and point the camera at the print out to scan. Follow the instructions on screen. Don’t forget to try the selfie mode; hold the image to your body to see the organ outside of your body. If you like, you can share an image on social media. (If you haven’t got access to a printer you can try scanning directly from your computer or phone screen). More on the human body...
Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion

...modes of creating knowledge and meaning. Today, governmental institutions and commercial agencies are demanding and developing new methods to gather and interpret data. The trend has been exponential with electronic forms of data collection, creating ‘big data’ which can – and must - be analysed in new ways. These data and attached methods aim to know and generate...
More working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

More working with charts, graphs and tables

...modes of transport to get to work. Bar charts are very useful for comparing two or more sets of data, as you will see later. For example, the popularity of different modes of transport in two cities, or from one year to the next...More working with charts, graphs and tables: 5.1.3 When is a bar chart not a good format to use? - A bar chart is not the best way to show the...
Transport and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Transport and Sustainability

...modes? This course includes a detailed consideration of current transport technologies, starting with petrol and diesel engines, looking at the efforts to reduce their environmental impact since the 1990s. The urgent need to cut global CO2 emissions and to reduce the UK’s reliance on imported oil means that the days of fossil-fuelled vehicles are numbered. One option...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...de echarla, porque yo le prometí que no la iba a echar. (Now, if I didn’t take any act to throw her out, because I promised her that I wouldn’t throw her out.) Interpreter: And also I had promised her that I wouldn’t evict her. (Hale, 1997, cited in Keratsa, 2005) (b) Solicitor: And you are the defendant before the court? Interpreter: ¿Y usted es el que está...
Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...Le vite de’ più eccelenti pittori, scultori e architettori (Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects; first edition 1550 and revised 1568) that the architect Filippo Brunelleschi (1377–1446) was initially apprenticed to a goldsmith ‘to the end that he might learn design’ (Vasari, 1996 [1568], vol. 1, p. 326). According to Vasari, several other Italian...