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Minerals and the crystalline state
Science, Maths & Technology

Minerals and the crystalline state

...everyday objects and living things possess it. There are two main types of symmetry: reflection symmetry, where one side of an object is the mirror image of the other side (e.g. insects, birds and spoons) rotational symmetry, where an object looks the same after a certain amount of rotation (e.g. many flowers, starfish and bicycle wheels). Many complicated patterns such...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
An introduction to energy resources
Nature & Environment

An introduction to energy resources

...everyday speech we often refer colloquially to the powerful politician, the energetic child, the working mother and the efficient administrator. We use these terms imprecisely, and often wrongly, compared with their scientific definitions...Energy resources: An introduction to energy resources: 2.1 Some basic concepts - Energy is defined as the capacity to do work, and...
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...Everyday digital skills - Think about the digital skills you use in everyday life from when you get up to when you go to bed, outside of your work environment and the support you have there for using the required technology. The chances are you figured out how to use a piece of technology or software yourself, or asked a partner/friend/child to tell you how to do...
Climate change: island life in a volatile world
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change: island life in a volatile world

...everyday way. Steve Pile (2006) has written about disturbing events in the past that come back to haunt people in the present; the issue of climate change suggests that there are possible future events that can ‘haunt’ us here and now [Figure 2] Figure 2 Tuvalu's location in the Pacific Ocean In this way, the phenomenon of climate change, and the possibility of people...
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...everyday language ‘liable to be killed’ means ‘likely to be killed’ but here the word has a different meaning: it establishes who, morally speaking, may be killed.) We might think about this as follows: imagine two soldiers confronting each other. If they are morally equal, then they must have the same moral rights as each other. In war, this means the right to...
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...everyday life. Technology moves fast, but the means of understanding its movements do not, given the new media theory’s obligate and persistent homage to Deleuze’s early nineties programme. The gratuitousness of this reference today, combined with the lack of specificity concerning contemporary implementations of cybernetic modes of machinic governance, might just as...
Looking at, describing and identifying objects
History & The Arts

Looking at, describing and identifying objects

...everyday object you might find at home or at work. So another approach to identifying the object could be to take it to a museum and ask an expert curator to identify it. In the twenty-first century we can also use the internet to help identify objects. However, using a search engine would be even less helpful than wandering around a large museum hoping to spot something...
You and your money
Money & Business

You and your money

...everyday life and, as a result, discussions about it regularly make the headlines. Even the Archbishop of Canterbury has made public statements about the level of personal indebtedness in the UK (The Times, 2008)! Debt is regularly featured in the media with stories about how much people have borrowed, how a proportion of borrowers encounter difficulties in making...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs