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Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...physical level in various structures of the brain. This highlights the fact that our reactions are deeply instinctive. We have them whether we consciously want to or not. So how does this work? When we combine warmth and competence in a four box model, we can see four basic combinations of how we might perceive someone. Feelings of high warmth and low competence have been...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...physical structure may coincide with this transition. And then Hadrian of course invests a lot of energy behind the building: it’s the grandest interior ever built. I think we can imagine major festivals, events, carried out at the Pantheon with Hadrian there. Eleanor Betts OK, great, so let’s think a little bit more then about the architecture. So can you tell me a...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Prices, location and spread
Science, Maths & Technology

Prices, location and spread

...physical analogy illustrates several important facts about weighted means. It does not matter whether the weights are 5 kg and 8 kg or 5 tonnes and 8 tonnes; the point of balance will be in the same place. It will also remain in the same place if we use weights of 10 kg and 16 kg or 40 kg and 64 kg – it is only the relative sizes (i.e. the ratio) of the weights that...
Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Herodotus and the invention of history
History & The Arts

Herodotus and the invention of history

...physical objects which were produced in the ancient world. Figures 13 and 14 below are images of two pieces of material culture associated with Croesus. These pre-date Herodotus’ Histories, and can therefore help us to fill out the picture Herodotus’ contemporary reader might indeed have known. Interpreting visual sources like these requires analytical skills which...
Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...physical adjustments to spaces. Walking in someone else’s shoes or seeing the world through someone else’s lens is a really important thing. So I think the adjustments really come from that conversation at the front. What we do ask for is access riders. And we’ll explain to people what that means. It might be as simple as a phone call or a sentence, or it might be...
Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...physical efficiency. JONATHAN BRADSHAW This is Rowntree's first study of poverty in York, published in 1901. And it's remarkable work. He interviewed every working class household in York, 33,000 households. We can see on this map where the poor were concentrated. And he was very preoccupied with the relationship between poverty and drinking. And so he has marked on the...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...physical entity such as a machine or a body, itself made up of many parts. [Described image] Figure 5: Components...Introducing global development: 8 Framework for a global development mindset - Thinking systemically requires a both/and mindset. Working with a complex situation requires looking at individual parts of the whole – you cannot deal with everything, so you...
An introduction to electronics
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to electronics

...physical phenomena into electrical signals that communicate useful information. Such devices have capabilities similar to the five human senses: hearing (microphones), seeing (cameras), touch (piezoelectrics), and smell and taste (chemical sensors), although sometimes our human senses are better. However, electronic devices can sense things we cannot. For example, Figure...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs