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Egyptian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Egyptian mathematics

...system and primitive methods effectively prevented any advance or interest in developing the science for its own sake. It served the needs of everyday life …., and that was enough. G. J. Toomer. A careful study of the Rhind Papyrus convinced me several years ago that this work is not a mere selection of practical problems especially useful to determine land values, and...
Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Work and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Work and mental health

...system. And I woke up one morning feeling absolutely terrible, in a very bad place, and went straight to the doctor and got prescribed antidepressants. It was certainly a totally different experience to episodes of melancholy or unhappiness that I’d had before. I had been to therapists in the past because of anxiety and depression. This was a totally different...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...systems of sound (phonology), word formation (morphology and lexis) and grammar, and the ways in which these encode meaning are within the remit of linguistics both in relation to specific languages and in relation to commonalities across languages. But linguistics is also concerned with how these systems are learned, how they are used in producing and understanding...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...systems and that the extent of these activities has thrown Holocene climate stability out of balance (Ellis, 2018). Figure 2 shows the Anthropocene relative to the whole of geological time. [A graphic showing the different geological periods following the formation of the Earth: Paleozoic; Ordovician; Silurian; Devonian; Carboniferous; Permian; Triassic; Jurassic;...
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...systems are faced with the challenge of controlling new infections that can spread globally in a very short time. Similarly, trade routes still transport infected goods within countries as they have always done, but air freight enables infectious agents in foodstuffs to travel between continents in less than a day. Globalisation requires global responses to prevent...
Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging

...system for labelling adults. Also, the figures are not broken down into the four sub-categories you looked at in Section 2.1, meaning the data is quite vague. Nevertheless, they do reveal some important points. There are a lot of people with a learning disability… …only a minority of whom are supported by social care services ­– people like Dora, Bhavin and Elinor...
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...systems are questionable. It is not that the ‘Communist’ Chinese prefer unaccountable states, but rather this is all they have access to. In reality Chinese firms want stability and manageable risks, and are increasingly joint-venturing with Western firms and African national oil companies. Watch Giles Mohan summarise Chinese interests. GILES MOHAN The motivations for...
Lying and politics: a brief primer
Society, Politics & Law

Lying and politics: a brief primer

...system. So I think if it went on for too much you could start to degrade the entire system. And I think that is why it's so important. There’s another noticeable trend in this sort of behaviour, however. For several of today’s leaders it seems preferable to spin an entirely fabricated tale than to admit to making a mistake. A recent example was Benjamin Netanyahu...