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Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...phrase, "doing things together," draws our attention to sociology's interest in the collective. If I told you I like to walk around balancing a frying pan on my head, this in itself would not be of great sociological interest. It would be an individual preference or quirk. But imagine if a number of people started to walk around balancing frying pans on their heads. This...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...phrases are kept, and all others successively picked out and thrown away. Something like the same process had gone on, long before, with the originals of these books. The world takes liberties with world-books. Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men. In the composition of such works, the...
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Article 15 mins
The database development life cycle
Science, Maths & Technology

The database development life cycle

...phrase is no longer used the initials SQL still are. SQL is an essential part of the practical understanding of relational databases, but we are only concerned that you appreciate its role in defining and accessing a database. To recognise why methodical development is an issue, let's look at a very simple example. A hotel provides its clients with accommodation, food and...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Earth from above, 18th Century style
History & The Arts

Earth from above, 18th Century style

...type and font matching that which spells out “River Mersey”; information about the journey (“Breeze”, “Balloon alighted here”) is printed in text matching that of the place names. The clouds still obscure the land below. It is as if the temporal and topographical information inscribed in the key are of equivalent value; the experience Baldwin had travelling...
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Article 5 mins
Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds
Society, Politics & Law

Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds

...types. First, the plants which have been selectively bred into food crops by people. And, second, the so-called ‘crop wild relatives’. These are the wild plants that food crop plants were bred from. In a time of a growing global population, as well as significant environmental change, concern is increasing about the future security of the world’s food supplies....
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Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud
Nature & Environment

Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud

...types of needless work include redundant email attachments, unnecessary video calls and bloated website pages – which leads us nicely on to the carbon cost of data transmission… Data transmission In many developed economies, the cost of connectivity has plummeted over the last 15 years, to the point where it almost feels free. When connectivity was more expensive,...
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Article 5 mins
Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One

...types of crimes are associated with power imbalances and social structures that objectify, demean and treat women, children and other vulnerable groups as less than fully human. Societies that tolerate inequalities or that refuse to fully recognise the rights and autonomy of all social members are complicit in the violence that is then perpetrated against these groups....
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Article 12 mins
Encouraging book talk in the school library
Education & Development

Encouraging book talk in the school library

...type rather than age. UK Children's Books The Reading Is Fundamental project has age-related lists plus suggestions for motivating children to read, books for reading aloud and seasonal ideas. Reading is Fundamental Activity 2 Click on "view document" below and look at an example of a book review writing frame. View document Now produce a writing frame or pro forma of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs