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Myth at the heart of the Roman Empire
History & The Arts

Myth at the heart of the Roman Empire

...becomes a significant memorial for the foundation myths of ancient Rome. The D'Arpino frescoes How the 17th century Pope Innocent X stressed his own continuity with ancient Rome's foundational myths by commissioning these stunning pictures. A330: Myth in the Greek and Roman worlds How story and myth are embedded into the monuments and artefacts of ancient Greece and Rome....
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IT in everyday life
Science, Maths & Technology

IT in everyday life

...become a 'global village' where distance is no longer a barrier to commercial or social contact. If we live in Britain or other parts of the westernised world, it's difficult to imagine being without all the networked infrastructure that plays a crucial part in our daily lives. This free course, IT in everyday life, is about how this infrastructure of information and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!
Money & Business

Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!

...become more aware of your own approaches to these aspects of your work life. The majority of the ideas and techniques in this course form the basis of many short management training courses of the type you or your manager(s) may have attended. The course concludes with some study advice on writing for academic purposes. We will consider some of the different forms of...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
Education & Development

Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations

...becoming positive changemakers. Transcript About this course and how it was made This short course was made with eight teenage boys taking part in an ACT Initiative and Belfast Boys’ Model School project: Adam, Ashton, Brandon, Dylan, Matty, Ryan, Stephen and William. It is based on a face-to-face course and workshops developed by William Mitchell, a Loyalist...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
What impact are tighter immigration restrictions having on the UK's curry houses?
Money & Business

What impact are tighter immigration restrictions having on the UK's curry houses?

...become increasingly tenuous. In his book Spicing Up Britain: The Multicultural History of British Food, Panayai charts the patterns of migration and the influences of food, taste and consumption habits. He follows the tastes of British Asians who have grown up with a fusion of tastes and influences all their life. These are people whose diets reflect the variants of...
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What would happen to the economy if we all stopped drinking?
Money & Business

What would happen to the economy if we all stopped drinking?

...become of the glaziers if panes of glass were never broken?” The alcohol industry is, in some ways, like the glazier of Bastiat’s story. Global alcohol producers profit from harmful behaviour. And they, too, try to defend themselves with the promise of employment and income. Such appeals to the economic benefits of a thriving alcohol industry have become deafening in...
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Language is collateral damage in the gig economy
Languages

Language is collateral damage in the gig economy

...become a term of abuse among young people (although the extent to which it carries homophobic intent is disputed), ‘special needs’ still carries a certain stigma, and so on. However, this misses an important point about the nature of language, and one which the Deliveroo dos-and-don’ts list helps illustrate. In advising its managers to use a word like ‘kit’, the...
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Why is Enceladus a possible home for life - and should we visit to find out?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why is Enceladus a possible home for life - and should we visit to find out?

...becomes heated, reacts chemically, and escapes back up to the ocean via “hydrothermal vents”. These exist on the floor of the Earth’s oceans, too, where the chemically charged water supports a rich ecology of microbes and other, more complex, life forms – requiring no sunlight. The only missing evidence of water-rock chemical reactions in Enceladus was molecules...
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