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Earth from above, 18th Century style
History & The Arts

Earth from above, 18th Century style

...history of flight, ballooning had a profound effect on the epistemological model of being in the world and viewing landscape. That balloons are innately comic is undeniable, and their physical attributes were a gift to satirists of the late eighteenth century, who riffed delightedly on the graphic and semantic associations of this new and somewhat unlikely technology....
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Article 5 mins
Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...family and pay rent so as to force the crofters to work for them. This was the first wave of clearances. The collapse of the market for goods produced on Highland estates in the face of more competitively priced imports meant that the tenants were now without employment. This led to a second wave of clearances characterised by emigration to the 'New World' and migration...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...history of social scientific definitions of poverty. It addresses how social scientific ideas about participation in social worlds have impacted on public debates and policies about poverty, inequality and social exclusion. You should now watch the film. You will need to spend some time engaging with its themes and issues, and we recommend that you watch it at least...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...family and the importance of the family and different family structures and different family shapes that aren’t all the same, but the role of those informal relationships. So it’s not just about what happens in the NHS and indeed it’s not just about what people in government and policy makers say. The implementation of social policy covers a wide range of...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...history and the popular imagination, about the kinds of minds that exist or that could exist and little agreement about what these minds might be like...Minds and mental phenomena: An introduction: 3 Varieties of mental phenomena - We have been considering, in a very general and highly speculative way, what kinds of creatures have minds and wondering what these minds...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Building motivation and resilience in research
Science, Maths & Technology

Building motivation and resilience in research

...history: Marie Curie faced multiple rejections before winning Nobel Prizes. Resilience is not about avoiding setbacks but using them as fuel for persistence. Albert Einstein described failure as ‘success in progress’, a phrase that encapsulates the idea that failure is not the opposite of success but rather a stepping stone toward it. Psychological theories also...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Understanding mental capacity Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...history at all? CAREGIVER No, I don't. I know she used to-- actually, her husband told me she used to cook. But that's all I know really about Thelma. INTERVIEWER Do you know has there ever been a time where you thought if I knew a a little bit more it would be helpful or does that not seem-- CAREGIVER I suppose everything-- every aspect like-- well, yes, I suppose it...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Nationalism, self-determination and secession
Society, Politics & Law

Nationalism, self-determination and secession

...families are well documented (Huysmans, 2005). Nationalism and national self-determination are living political ideas that people do indeed live (and die) for. The main reason that such conflicts are so important to leaders and followers caught up in them is that to achieve and sustain statehood for one's nation is the ultimate expression of political independence, as it...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs