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Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground

...based on the shape of three notes rising up a scale, and harmonised in tenths [play bb. 1–2, then bb. 1–2 reduction]. Now, in bar three, the B natural and C sharp are clearly chromatic passing notes [play b. 3]. And in bar four, the third beat is a 6/4 chord, which is nearly always a set of neighbour-notes to the following chord, making a cadence [play b. 4]. So if we write out just the harmony notes of......
Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...circuits not being of the same brightness burning magnesium ribbon giving different results, with some finding a loss in weight and others a gain or no difference. These examples confront teachers with how to handle unexpected results. Another common critical incident occurs when students deny the evidence they collect when it clashes with their current conceptual...
Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Why are people upset about the Stonewall Movie?
History & The Arts

Why are people upset about the Stonewall Movie?

...Les Miz mode, as another hot guy who’s a quiet campaigning politico tries to caution him that sensible, safe protest is the way forward. (Put the rock down, son!) - Tim Teeman, The Daily Beast Transcript Director Roland Emmerich has been driven to post response to the criticism: When I first learned about the Stonewall Riots through my work with the Los Angeles Gay and...
Raymond Williams a Leonardo Sciascia: Cofio bywydau a gwaddolion
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams a Leonardo Sciascia: Cofio bywydau a gwaddolion

...Le Parrocchie di Regalpetra (1956), cyhoeddodd Sciascia Sicilian Uncles (1958), sef casgliad o nofelau byr sy'n portreadu'r ffordd y caiff pŵer ei arfer ar adegau tyngedfennol, gan gynnwys ymosodiad y Cynghreiriaid ar Sisili, a'r rhagolygon ar gyfer dyfodol yr ynys o safbwyntiau gwahanol (a dychmygol) Sisiliaid Americanaidd a Sisiliaid comiwnyddol. Fodd bynnag, y gwaith...
Earthquakes
Science, Maths & Technology

Earthquakes

...BB′ and CC′ on (a) are the locations of cross-sections in (b) and (c), which show foci parallel to (in line with) and perpendicular to (at right-angles to) the fault. Larger earthquakes are shown by larger red dots. The San Andreas Fault is the largest and possibly most active of many faults in California. As well as the Loma Prieta earthquake, movement along the...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...circuit must be opened or closed. A circuit can't be half opened or, say, the On and the Auto circuits both opened together. It's one or the other, all or nothing. It is a discrete system. Purely formal systems have the property of medium-independence. It does not matter what the tokens are made of, or how the system is realised physically. Again, our chess example is...
For some people, staying awake might help fight depression
Health, Sports & Psychology

For some people, staying awake might help fight depression

...circuit – a system that’s strongly implicated in depression. But Welsh has also shown that a disturbed circadian system itself can cause depression-like symptoms. When he took healthy mice and knocked out a key clock gene in the brain’s master clock, they looked just like the depressed mice he’d been studying earlier. “They don’t need to learn to be helpless,...
Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
History & The Arts

Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution

...Le deuxième sexe II: 13/267) is for her, a philosophical platitude. But Beauvoir also rejects the anti-essentialist view: Being a woman is, at least in our world, not a casual fact, irrelevant to a person’s core identity - any more than is being Jewish or black or old. Nor is being a woman simply a matter of one’s own choice: precisely how you are a woman may be up...