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Why not ‘World Religions’?
History & The Arts

Why not ‘World Religions’?

...out to categorise religion in the same way that Linnaeus produced a taxonomy of the natural world. Muller and Tiele were not neutral observers, however. They were very much a part of the colonial project. And so the data they produced was of nations that were being subjugated and that the colonial governments would have to deal with. Implicitly, they produced a...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Stonehenge before the First World War
History & The Arts

Stonehenge before the First World War

...out on the pampas, over six thousand miles from the land of its origin, is a thing to wonder at. I remember that the Stonehenge plate greatly impressed me and that I sacrilegiously cut it out of the book so as to have it! Now we know, our reason tells us continually, that the mental pictures formed in childhood are false because the child and man have different standards,...
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Article 10 mins
Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...out of this planet. And I found some of his work very informing as well, and continue to. Can you mix environmental issues with blue-chip natural history? Well the big landmarks still do an amazing job and, without doing them an injustice, they fit into a category rather like film art. I mean I’ve just been to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year ceremony in the...
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Video 30 mins
People, automobiles and statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

People, automobiles and statistics

...out to be vital since some of the data is taken from quite narrow sections of the population. The main part of the handbook, which is section 7, uses this format to list data for all the dimensions shown in section 6. If you look at section 5 you will see the data do not necessarily describe the same populations. For example, the age ranges vary and in some cases were...
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Article 10 mins
Understanding organisational value
Money & Business

Understanding organisational value

...burning out, and might consider adopting mindfulness practices to enhance their efficiency and better cope with the pressure of the modern workplace. Yet this preoccupation with narrow economic value is being challenged and expanded by broader conceptions of business or organisational value. Here value is defined as the ability of an organisation to transform its products...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Personal development planning for engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Personal development planning for engineering

...out how to achieve the goals that you set for yourself. The other thing is looking back over the recent past to add to and refine your toolbox – your collection of processes, of strategies. Being better as a professional person, as an engineer. Narrator Professor John Bouchard made well-thought-through choices at every stage in his career. How did he gather evidence and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty
Money & Business

Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty

...out of 6, which is one third, or 0.33. We can see that probability compares the number of times the desired outcome happens with the total number of possible outcomes. What's the probability that you'll throw an odd number greater than 3? The answer here is 1 in 6 because there's only 1 odd number greater than 3 - that's 5. And so we say there's a 1 out of 6 probability....
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...out the relationship of cause and effect in society's responses to these burning issues. Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1787) by Quobna Ottobah Cugoano (1757–c.1800) followed the Encyclopédie in applying rational, critical understanding to the practice of slavery in order to support the abolitionist cause, while other Enlightenment thinkers were using...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs