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Kimberly Nicholas - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Kimberly Nicholas - Stories of Change

...de Provence. RH: So we’ve got the wine now. Mine’s a Brouilly yours is a…Cotes du Rhone? KN: So when you’re tasting wine, I have learned that actually what we think of as taste is almost entirely smell. We can only distinguish five tastes, sweet, sour, salty, bitter etc. Umami, which is savoury. But our noses are exquisitely sensitive so we can...
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The trailblazers of 2024 launch women’s sport into an exciting 2025
Health, Sports & Psychology

The trailblazers of 2024 launch women’s sport into an exciting 2025

...de Motocyclisme (FIM) launched the inaugural Women’s Circuit Racing World Championship, marking the first global platform exclusively for female riders. Women’s sport often emphasises technical skill, strategic gameplay, and creativity, offering a fresh perspective compared to the power-driven approach that dominates some men’s leagues. For fans who value a balance...
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The greatest composers you’ve never heard of
History & The Arts

The greatest composers you’ve never heard of

...became the first woman to win France’s famous composition competition, the Prix de Rome (which women had only been allowed to enter since 1903), in 1913 for her cantata Faust et Hélène. Despite her brief career, Lilian Boulanger also composed dozens of compositions, including piano works, songs, and several large-scale works for choir and orchestra....
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Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision

...feedback and everybody was saying, ‘Do you know I just love Blue Planet, because I can stick my head under the water and escape from a planet which seems to have been shot to pieces.’ There was that mood after 9/11 that the whole planet, certainly in the West anyway, something had gone wrong with the planet on a big, big scale. And I think that there still is this...
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Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator
Languages

Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator

...feedback of 150, 200 and 250 milliseconds. Even a slight delay subverts speech, forcing listeners to slow down, stutter, slur and even come to a halt. Sure enough, many of the students made errors. But half of the group were in their third or fourth year at the university’s School of Translators and Interpreters, and these students suffered no significant disruption....
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Introducing mammals
Nature & Environment

Introducing mammals

...class) called the Mammalia. This free course, Introducing mammals, offers a starting point for the study of mammals. It will establish their rich diversity, while highlighting the common features that define the group...Mammals come in a bewildering variety of shapes and sizes, and yet all species have some characteristics in common. These similarities justify the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Getting started with Chinese 2
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 2

...class learning Chinese with Chinese words on the board. Select the answer for Question 1b here [Described image] Figure 2 Tā kàn diànshì. 她 看 电视。 True False a. True b. False The correct answer is a. Discussion True. This is a drawing of a girl watching TV. Select the answer for Question 1c here [Described image] Figure 3 Dàwèi xiě hànzì. 大卫写 汉字...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...class mode, which can make the pace monotonous often means that the teacher is giving the students information that they could find out for themselves, thus making them less active and autonomous if the teacher takes the dominant role in classroom discourse, the students’ role is only that of respondent – opportunities for developing speaking skills or spontaneous...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs