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Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...motivations, but I am not quite sure about what he is trying to do to be persuasive. He has this interest in aesthetics, but in giving a detailed explanation of a military technology he is working on, he, from time to time, uses an analogy. One analogy he uses is the ‘flocking of starlings’, which illustrates rather the principle of operation of the technology and...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Scottish courts and the law

...motivation and demonstrable desire to master new and unfamiliar areas of the law that emerge during the period of service as a judge. Skills and Competence in the Interpretation and Application of the Law a thorough understanding of the theory and principles on which the law is based and an ability to analyse and explore legal problems creatively and imaginatively...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...motivation and capacity to bring it into being. In this respect, it is the similarity of the views of Churchill and Monnet, particularly with their appraisal of the roles of Britain and France, that is as interesting as any differences. But the fate of the British turned out to be less divergent from ‘Europe’ than either thought, and you should consider why this...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...motivation to trading in financial markets. This is because the mathematical equations which describe physical systems, and the difficulties in solving them, have analogues in other disciplines. A particularly well-studied example is the atmosphere, which you’ll take a look at next...Week 1: Chance and chaos: 2.6 Weather forecasting - It’s no secret that weather...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Languages

Describing language

...et al., 2020), the languages spoken by the largest number of people in the world are (in alphabetical order) English, Hindi, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. The actual number of speakers of each language depends on who you count. Box 1 Before taking a closer look at how many people speak these major languages, it is important to understand some of the terminology used to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Herodotus and the invention of history
History & The Arts

Herodotus and the invention of history

...motivating this episode: that ‘Candaules was in love with his own wife’. A clue to how to think about it comes in the next sentence when Herodotus writes that Candaules used to discuss his most important affairs with Gyges, especially his wife’s appearance. Candaules’ desire, even if it’s for his own wife, is a problem because it dominates his thinking: when he...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...motivated you to make your editions available as open access for other performers? TIM PARKER-LANGSTON I found it quite aggravating, frustrating that I could encounter analyses or writing about songs that I couldn’t see in a score or hear. So I wanted to create something that would kind of like irrevocably take [that] away. I didn’t want another PhD or another book to...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...et al., 1990, p.150. Art in fifteenth-century Venice: `an aesthetic of diversity' Dreams and Conflicts, 2003, p.594. Burckhardt, 1990, p.19. See, for example, Welch, 1997. See Kristeller, 1965. During the writing of this chapter, an advertisement for a television series on the Medici put the received wisdom in a nutshell: `The whole of Western culture pivots on the...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs