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A brief history of the lens
Society, Politics & Law

A brief history of the lens

...out to the stars and down to atoms. Perhaps we don’t spend much time thinking about how we capture images from light through a lens, but it has taken hundreds of years to move from seeing through a lens to keeping the results. That is the breakthrough of photography: a permanent, and portable record of a moment in time, ‘writing the light’. This is how we're able to...
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Reflections on resilience for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers
Society, Politics & Law

Reflections on resilience for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers

...out they would need a surety in the form of immigration bail. Ray often stood bail for individuals in order to help them get out of the detention centres more quickly as he had noticed the deterioration in mental health that often accompanied incarceration. He began to wonder whether singing could be ideal as a way to support traumatised people and their suppressed...
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Exomoons: astronomers report first ever discovery
Science, Maths & Technology

Exomoons: astronomers report first ever discovery

...out any observable signal anyway. Jupiter itself has over 70 known moons, and four of these are comparable in size to our own, so multiple moon signals are not unexpected from exoplanet systems. The first hints that there may be an exomoon in the Kepler-1625 system came in a paper by the same authors in 2017. In this study, they analysed 284 light curves from the Kepler...
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Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model
Science, Maths & Technology

Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model

...out from the crowd. Add a few more facts – she was a woman, she was black and working in the US in the 1950s to early 1960s – and the scale of her success becomes more apparent. The film [Hidden Figures] shed slight on the status of black people in society and the role of women in the workplace.Johnson’s story and significant contributions to the US space programme,...
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Coaching neurodivergent athletes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching neurodivergent athletes

...Burns, J. and Murphy, M. (2023) ‘“It’s all about knowing the young person”: best practice in coaching autistic athletes’, Sports Coaching Review, 12(2), pp. 166–86. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21640629.2021.1944527 (Accessed: 5 August 2025). McGinty-Minister, K. (2024) ‘Working in sport: through an autistic lens’, The Sport...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Beyond the Babble: A conversation about the art of listening
Society, Politics & Law

Beyond the Babble: A conversation about the art of listening

...out - they may not have really thought like that until they are in this sort of conversation; so it’s the asking little questions to get people to reflect. It’s almost becomes a monologue, it’s like thinking out loud… Giota: You mention that this is about inviting and getting people to reflect deeper about certain things, moving away from the ‘superficiality’...
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Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...out of what economists call a liquidity trap? When interest rates have gone as low as the Bank of England feels able to take them, then it has lost control of the economy. That is the situation right now. The only duty of the chancellor in that situation is to give the Bank of England back control through a fiscal stimulus – something he has not done. If he did do this,...
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Studying mammals: The opportunists
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The opportunists

...out details and assumed irrelevancies. Sometimes diagrams try to capture the essential features of three-dimensional 'reality' or perhaps a vertical section of a leaf or the structure of a human eye, as in previous units in this series. Flow charts of the type you drew for yourself earlier express an idea, in the form of a relationship between different components. They...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs