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Surfaces
Science, Maths & Technology

Surfaces

...BB'. [Figure 27] Figure 27 Making a cylinder from a rectangle...Surfaces: 2.3.2 Möbius band - Let us now see what happens if we try to identify two opposite edges of a rectangle in opposing directions. (Here, we are identifying the two ends of the rectangle rather than the top and bottom.) We start with a rectangle, as before, but this time the edges to be identified...
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Why the economy can't explain Trump or Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Why the economy can't explain Trump or Brexit

...Le Pen and Wilders happening now? Immigration and ethnic change. This is unsettling that portion of the white electorate that prefers cultural order over change. The US was about 90 percent white in 1960, is 63 percent white today and over half of American babies are now from ethnic minorities. Most white Americans already think they are in the minority, and many are...
What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?
History & The Arts

What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?

...Enlightenment, serving, for example, as important sources for Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert’s seminalEncyclopédie. The contents of the letters were various, but the Jesuits’ mission being what it was, it is perhaps not surprising that religion figured prominently, with many accounts of what would one day be called Buddhism. Well into the nineteenth century, Europeans divided the population of the world into four......
The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...le m’ ghaol gu taobh a' chaochain iomallaich, chrom i h-aodann sios ri bhruaich ‘s cha robh a thuar fhéin tuilleadh air. Rainig mi a’ chluaineag chéin a rithist liom fhéin iomadh uair, agus nuair choimhead mi ‘san t-srulaich cha rogh ach gnuis té m’ ulaidh innt’. Ach bha na glinn is iad a’ falbh is calbh nam beann gun fhuireach rium, cha robh a choltas...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Mathemateg bob dydd 2
Science, Maths & Technology

Mathemateg bob dydd 2

...le degol. Un enghraifft gyffredin o wneud hyn mewn bywyd pob dydd yw wrth ymdrin ag arian. Pe baech chi mewn bwyty ac angen rhannu bil o £87.95 rhwng tri pherson, byddech chi’n cyfrifo’r rhannu yn gyntaf. £87.95 wedi’i rannu â 3 yw £29.3166667. Yn amlwg, ni allwch dalu’r union swm hwn. Felly faint fyddech chi’n talu pe bai’r swm i bob person wedi’i...
Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Sut i ddarllen y newyddion
Society, Politics & Law

Sut i ddarllen y newyddion

...le ar hynny yn y bôn, mae'n ddefnyddiol gallu gwahaniaethu rhwng y ddau fath. Mae adroddiadau seiliedig ar farn yn cynnwys dehongliad yr awdur ei hun o'r digwyddiadau, a all roi safbwynt penodol iawn ar y newyddion. Drwy wahaniaethu rhwng adroddiadau ffeithiol a sylwebaeth, byddwch mewn sefyllfa well i lunio eich barn eich hun ar y sefyllfa. 2. Pwy yw awdur y stori, a...
Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage
Society, Politics & Law

Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage

...le lingue e la traduzione, perche’ pensi che queste siano questioni importanti? In che misura il tuo multilinguismo è importante per la tua arte? E in quale lingua pensi che il tuo lavoro stia comunicando con il pubblico? Laura: Thanks for this question about language, translation and the relation between my own plurilingualism and art. When we have to define what is...
Ireland and the Battle of The Somme
OpenLearn Ireland

Ireland and the Battle of The Somme

...le Transloy, and at Ancre Heights, during which the decision was taken to terminate the campaign. With troops exhausted, casualties mounting and no sign of a breakthrough, it ended on 18 November 1916. The consequences of the Somme campaign The Somme has become emblematic of the hopeless, futile, apparently interminable slaughter of World War One. During the battle,...