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Minerals and the crystalline state
Science, Maths & Technology

Minerals and the crystalline state

...systems...Minerals and the crystalline state: 1 Introducing crystals - Three distinct types of crystal, each of which is a different mineral, can be seen in the granite shown in Figure 1: shiny black biotite mica; cloudy white feldspar and translucent grey quartz. Figure 1 A close-up of a piece of granite, 7 cm across, showing interlocking, intergrown crystals of several...
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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM

...think about taking other courses...Introduction and guidance: How to get a badge - Getting a badge is straightforward! Here’s what you have to do: read each session of the course score 50% or more in the two badge quizzes in Session 3 and Session 6 For all the quizzes, you can have three attempts at most of the questions (for true or false type questions you usually...
Are women under-represented at tech accelerators?
Money & Business

Are women under-represented at tech accelerators?

...think I was a candidate for this world-class accelerator. I didn’t think I looked like a ‘YC founder’. Thus, women may be opting out of accelerator programmes because of a perceived lack of fit with the predominantly male tech and start-up culture. For those women who do overcome this problem and get onto the programmes, they often then encounter prejudice and...
"That's so gay!" Homophobic language and school
Languages

"That's so gay!" Homophobic language and school

...think can be affected by homophobia in schools? Pick the responses from this list that you think would apply: Children who declare themselves or who are perceived to be LGBT Other children in the school Staff who declare themselves or who are perceived to be LGBT Other staff members Parents of children who are or are perceived to be LGBT Other parents In the video below,...
What is Religion - and the Growth of Religious Toleration
History & The Arts

What is Religion - and the Growth of Religious Toleration

...think they ought to be able to do. It suggests that religion is more like a hobby than a serious pursuit, and can lead to public acts of religion being seen as ‘extremism’. But this is not the only way of thinking about what religion is, and what the relationship between it and the state should be. [Religious toleration: church gate] Over to you What do you think the...
The nature of history
Education & Development

The nature of history

...think it odd that it should be so dull, for a good deal of it must be invention”: exclaimed Catherine Morland in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, when discussing history. I hope to demonstrate to you and Miss Morland in this often quoted outburst (most famously in E.H. Carr’s book, What is History?) that these prejudices and fears are groundless. I am biased but I...
Why Study Philosophers?
History & The Arts

Why Study Philosophers?

...think that if that is all it takes to be a philosopher then we are all philosophers. This seems to me an altogether happy conclusion: we all do philosophy at least some of the time. To put things another way, philosophy is an activity, rather than a body of knowledge. What kind of activity? Thinking. What kind of thinking? Here there does not seem to be any hard-and-fast...
How afraid of death are we?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How afraid of death are we?

...thinking about death also increases our nationalistic bias, makes us more prejudiced against other racial, religious and age groups, and leads to other such parochial attitudes. Taken together, these dozens of studies show that being reminded of death strengthens our ties to the groups we belong to, to the detriment of those who are different from us. Reminders of death...