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Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...manage to lose a bit of momentum on the energy efficiency side of it, some of the very low cost options like investing in cavity wall insulation, loft insulation, we lost momentum on the rate of production… the rate of installation fell, and trying to redress that balance and actually pick that low-hanging fruit again, because there’s lots of it there, would be the...
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Introducing Homer's Iliad
History & The Arts

Introducing Homer's Iliad

...manages to evoke the war as a whole. To take one example: Homer relates that, when news of the Trojan hero Hector’s death reached the Trojans holed up in the city, they wailed ‘as if the whole of jutting Ilium was now smouldering / with fire all the way from its top to its bottom’ (Iliad 22.410–411). Homer doesn’t need to narrate the fall of Troy because: (i)...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Exploring philosophy: faking nature
History & The Arts

Exploring philosophy: faking nature

...managed or constructed in the way that a lot of our human environments are, so that you can opportunities to escape from that kind of highly constructed environment or built environment into an environment that has a kind of independence that plays by different rules than a highly managed place. So you might think there's a special kind of value there. Granted, there's an...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...manage to settle on one meaning of the term there are still radically divergent opinions about the nature of consciousness, given the univocal meaning in question. If a being is conscious, in one common sense of the term ‘conscious’, then it must be having some kind of (sensory or cognitive) experience with a distinctive phenomenology. To be a conscious being is...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Design thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Design thinking

...manage the stuff). While it is true that each piece of stuff satisfies some desire, it is also true that each piece of stuff creates the need for even more stuff. Cereal demands a spoon; a TV demands a remote. The stuff coevolved and is intertwined and interdependent. Recently some of the stuff, like an early Disney movie, has begun to chat and dance behind our backs. And...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...managers at some large vertical-drinking pubs were reportedly offered bonuses of up to £20,000 if they used sales techniques – upselling singles to doubles, for instance – to exceed revenue targets. All this was happening as the real cost of purchasing alcohol, allowing for inflation and changes in disposable income, fell every year from 1984 to 2007. As one liver...
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Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake
Science, Maths & Technology

Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake

...managed to source a copy for you. Frank Drake: Oh my goodness. Dallas Campbell: And I hope you enjoy it. Frank Drake: Oh thank you very much. Now I can find out what I’ve been doing all these years. Dallas Campbell: Exactly. Anyone whose searching for N I think should certainly read that. But thank you very much for sparing the time. Frank Drake: Thank you very much,...
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Social construction and social constructionism
Society, Politics & Law

Social construction and social constructionism

...manages successfully to bring up especially her boy children and handle some form of paid employment, is valued more highly in policy terms than the single mother who may be recognised but who some way is not quite of the same order. So this then valuing of the categories leads to some degree of hierarchical ordering. There's a way in which you can see tiers of groups of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr