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Eid al-Fitr
History & The Arts

Eid al-Fitr

...a time for gratitude’, Daily Sabah, 12 May. Available at: https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/turkish-and-ottoman-traditions-for-eid-al-fitr-a-time-for-gratitude (Accessed: 6 April 2023). Esposito, J.L. (1998) Islam: The Straight Path, Oxford University Press. Further resources Ramadan Tent Project Video: Millions of Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Fitr...
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Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...project to a conclusion. Rather than produce a working Difference Engine, Babbage had become distracted by the possibilities of the Analytical Engine. An enraged government turned their back on the scheme, claiming it was worthless and would never have worked. It was a desperately shortsighted decision; the Difference Engine was entirely practical and would have...
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Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision

...Project My name is Ade Thomas and I am the founder of Green.TV which is an online platform for publishing sustainability, clean tech and conservation video content. This is what I do So, Green.TV’s mission is to communicate conservation, clean tech and sustainability issues. We do that via what we call a multichannel publishing platform; that means a system of channels...
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Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...Project Wildscreen, 20th – 23rd October 2014 My name is Caroline Underwood and I’m now a senior producer at the CBC’s science series called The Nature of Things with David Suzuki. How I got started I was one of those unlikely little girls that actually did like to play out of doors and my father liked to walk and we did a lot of walking in the woods. When I went to...
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Engendering citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Engendering citizenship

...project of a radical approach to citizenship is to try and build into this universalist concept, a notion of difference. Now it is difficult to do and a number of us are struggling with it at present, so I haven’t got an easy answer for you, but I think it is partly about trying to break down the kind of way we think in dichotomies that either it has to be universalist...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
What are waves?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are waves?

...projects a series of clicks at different frequencies towards its prey. By sensing the returning echoes, it can determine the distance to its prey and environment. Other animals that commonly use ultrasound are the bats. These species show amazing diversity and mostly feed on insects – although some feed on fish, fruit, nectar and, in the case of the vampire bat, on...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Diversity in religion: Islam
History & The Arts

Diversity in religion: Islam

...project suggested at the end of this course...Diversity in religion: Islam: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the range of attitudes towards same-sex relationships among Muslims recognise change and diversity in Islam and in religion in general...Diversity in religion: Islam: 1 Attitudes to male same-sex relationships in...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Why you shouldn't sniff at Winnie The Pooh
History & The Arts

Why you shouldn't sniff at Winnie The Pooh

...managed to translate his love of making stories into a form that beguiled the child reader. Stories which showed how they too might make an imaginative life for themselves in the world of storytelling and understand how to master words and meanings. In one notable scene Pooh finds himself stuck on the doorway to Rabbit’s house, and must wait for a week until he is thin...
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