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Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales

...circulate around southwest Louisiana. In contemporary Louisiana, the lobster-turned-crawfish legend is still very much present as attests L’histoire de Télesphore et ‘Tit Edvard dans le grand Nord, the second tale in a trilogy by Cajun poet and singer-songwriter Zachary Richard, which also includes Conte cajun: L’histoire de Télesphore et de ‘Tit Edvard and...

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Article 15 mins

Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list

...circulating theories: While Olympics officials in Rio have assured the public that the dark green water doesn't pose a risk to the athletes who have to swim in it, they've not been able to explain what's behind the sudden colour change. "To ensure a high quality field of play is mandatory to Rio 2016 committee," organisers said in a statement. "Water tests at Maria Lenk...

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Article 5 mins

Health, Sports & Psychology

Can comedy change your life?

...circulate after 9/11 if we weren’t collectively grasping for ways to parse how unsettling and disruptive it was? Humour that is in bad taste or cruelly targeted at particular groups may generate conflict, but, for Weems, humour is our way of working through difficult subjects or feelings. [Negin Farsad] Negin Farsad Over the years, researchers have built a substantial...

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Article 10 mins

Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...circulation of the ocean below. This means less cold water than usual is brought up from the deep ocean, so the eastern tropical Pacific sea surface becomes warmer than normal (Figure 13a). These events, and their opposite counterparts, La Niña events (strengthening winds, leading to cooler eastern tropical Pacific sea surface; Figure 13b), occur every few years and...

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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs

History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...circulate the values on which particular visions of nationhood are established. Creation of a class of ‘things’ that are seen to be the greatest expressions of culture promotes, in turn, narratives about the set of values that are seen to be the most worthy in the preservation of a particular form of state society. The heritage list, like the literary or artistic...

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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs

Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...circulations models, highly complicated computer models. There's a group of scientists that call themselves the Lukewarmers who say that based on recent observations of the real temperature that actually probably the climate sensitivity to CO2 is rather less than the IPCC thinks, and that maybe a doubling of CO2 which we'd get possibly around the middle of the century...

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Audio 5 mins

History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...circulated privately, amongst friends and family, thus making these comments in some sense, public. Occasionally, more than one reader may leave a mark, such as in Lee’s copy of Rudolf Goldscheid’s Höherentwicklung und Menschenökonomie: grundlegung der sozialbiologie (UK RED: 16970) which she lent to her friend, the Italian pragmatist philosopher Mario Calderoni....

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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr

Nature & Environment

Climate change

...circulation of a fluid driven by differences in temperature. Convection in the atmosphere plays a vital role in two further mechanisms - quite apart from the emission of longwave radiation - whereby energy is transferred from the Earth's surface to the atmosphere. The first is the transfer of 'thermal' energy (often referred to rather loosely as 'heat') by a combination...

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Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs

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Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales