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How do musical instruments produce sound?
History & The Arts

How do musical instruments produce sound?

...composite and combine different categories (consider, for example, the kazoo, which is both a membranopone and an aerophone). Hornbostel-Sachs, nevertheless, is an elegant solution to the problem of classification which also highlights the technological means by which music and instruments make sound; it also celebrates commonalities - or, what is shared - in music around...
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Enceladus: A habitable ice world?
Science, Maths & Technology

Enceladus: A habitable ice world?

...composition of the ice is altered by the deposition of material ejected by the plumes, micrometeoroid impacts and bombardment of radiation from Saturn’s magnetosphere. As Enceladus orbits Saturn, it also sweeps up material from the E-ring through which it travels. The E-ring is Saturn’s second outermost ring and is composed of microscopic icy grains, which are fed...
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Spiritualism, stigma and prejudice: what is everyone so scared of?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Spiritualism, stigma and prejudice: what is everyone so scared of?

...composition in England and Wales 2011 Census 2021 Census No religion 25.2% 37.2% Christian 59% 46.2% Muslim 4.9% 6.5% Hindu 1.5% 1.7% Sikh 0.8% 0.9% Jewish 0.5% 0.5% Buddhist 0.4% 0.5% Other religion 0.4% 0.6% As the opening conversation shows, some people recoil in horror at the mention of Spiritualism. We found a common attitude was that people thought it was dabbling...
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Galaxies, stars and planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Galaxies, stars and planets

...composition of astronomical objects...This free course, Galaxies, stars and planets, is a general introduction, including scale of the universe from the very large to the very small; orbits and gravity; the Solar System; the Sun and other stars; galaxies and the composition of astronomical objects....Galaxies, stars and planets: Introduction - For millennia, people have...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Children’s perspectives on play
Education & Development

Children’s perspectives on play

...sang to her all the time. Even when she was in an incubator in hospital I sang to her. When she was crying and upset I would sing to help calm her. So she’s heard music a lot. She was very late to talk, late to do everything, in fact. Her language has only really taken off in the past few months. Previously to that, she wasn’t forming many words but she could sing the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...Compositional devices – perspective, dark foregrounds and light backgrounds, strong diagonal forms, etc. – may focus our attention on one particular aspect of a picture. When we look at a photograph, we are looking at something that has been created using the visual language of pictures. It would make sense to say that both realist and conventionalist approaches are...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...Du Bois, 1935) is a useful concept here, but no one’s life is simply black and white. [A postage stamp of Gold Coast overprinted for Ghanaian independence in 1957] A postage stamp of Gold Coast overprinted for Ghanaian independence in 1957 Revising his first conceptualisation of the ‘colour line’, Du Bois (1910) asserted the problem of the colour line was the...
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Carnifal Butetown, y gorffennol, presennol, a'r dyfodol
History & The Arts

Carnifal Butetown, y gorffennol, presennol, a'r dyfodol

...DU o dramor yn gynnar yr ugeinfed ganrif. Roedd Ardal y Dociau yn Butetown, Caerdydd ar ei hanterth bryd hynny. Roedd llawer o fasnach yn dod o Orllewin Affrica, y Caribî a gweddill y byd. Yng Nghymru, roedd traddodiadau'n bodoli ers tro, megis Mari Lwyd, lle'r oedd pobl yn gwisgo'n smart ac yn canu neu rannu straeon â'r naill a'r llall, gan fynd o un aelwyd i'r llall....
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