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Kropotkin, anarchism and geography: A discussion
Society, Politics & Law

Kropotkin, anarchism and geography: A discussion

...work and extraordinary life story of Peter Kropotkin, a Russian geographer who died almost a hundred years ago but who still provides us with some interesting insights today. So, Philip, who was Peter Kropotkin? Philip O’Sullivan: Hi Andy, Peter Kropotkin was born into the aristocracy of Tsar Sasha in Moscow in the early 1840s. He was an explorer, a scientist and a...
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Reducing the carbon footprint of on-premises IT
Nature & Environment

Reducing the carbon footprint of on-premises IT

...Working with procurement, IT managers can significantly cut the embodied carbon cost of their assets through a circular IT approach to extending technology lifetimes, considered equipment repurposing and verified recycling. Remanufactured and refurbished technology options are rapidly becoming more accessible, and more viable. However, what can be done to reduce the...
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Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'
Society, Politics & Law

Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'

...work.’ English text of Engels' Condition of the Working Class in England , 1845. To remedy what Engels described as ‘a mass of helplessness and misery’, London County Council cleared the slum and built Arnold Circus. Unfortunately, the original slum inhabitants could not afford the rents of these first council houses so they were forced into new slums further to the...
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Exploring the icy moons
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the icy moons

...work with Ann Grand, Lecturer in Astrobiology Education...‘Astrobiology’ isn’t a subject you can study at school. Can you tell me a little bit about your journey to astrobiology and how you arrived where you are now? By accident! Since childhood, I’ve been interested in in the big questions about where we come from, the evolution of life on Earth, the origins of...
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Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future
History & The Arts

Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future

...working. Carnival has this fire, and you can’t take that away from us. Bringing Butetown together We keep feeding into this image of poverty and hardship. Art and literature love dystopia, so whenever Butetown is revisited in these forms, it’s always about the community that died. However, we, the local people, have started buying into those stories ourselves. We need...
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African Caribbean religions and the problem of representation
History & The Arts

African Caribbean religions and the problem of representation

...works similarly rejected Hume’s thesis of fetishism as the foundation of all religions and replaced the term fetishism with animism and totemism. Tylor defined fetishism as ‘the doctrine of spirits embodied in or attached to or conveying influence through certain material objects’ (1871, vol. 2, in Böhme, 2014, p. 175). Therefore, two elements always come together...
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Looking at, describing and identifying objects
History & The Arts

Looking at, describing and identifying objects

...work towards writing your own object life cycle. You will also work with, and understand artefact databases...This free course, Looking at, describing and identifying objects, will enable you to practise and develop your skills of observation and description of objects. It will also enable you to interpret objects and work towards writing your own object life cycle. You...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences

...working on at that particular point in time. I would also say that effective note taking helps to avoid the problems of plagiarism where you simply reproduce what others have written down in a way that is not reflective or doesn’t involve much thinking. John So plagiarism is one of the key failings in writing essays and assignments and that part of what note taking can...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr