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Colour in Byzantine Art
History & The Arts

Colour in Byzantine Art

...becomes lighter as it moves outwards. As everything else in Byzantine art, this is highly intentional: it is there to remind the faithful that the Transfiguration is a feast of light, as described in the homilies of Church Fathers – and what other colour is better associated with light than white? Furthermore, white is directly connected with purity; Christ’s both...
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Article 10 mins
Childhood in the Digital Age
OpenLearn Ireland

Childhood in the Digital Age

...become more equipped to deal with the world around them. In this video Nathalia Gjersoe focuses on the future, and especially on the impact of changes to formal schooling and education in the next decade and beyond. Childhood in the Digital Age (Combined) Are you a technology optimist or a technology pessimist? The amount of technology available to children today is...
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Video 15 mins
What is forensic science?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is forensic science?

...become a crime scene they will leave behind distinguishing evidence, and moreover take some part of the scene with them. It is the job of forensic scientists to discover and verify the exchange of materials. In addition to his exchange principle, Locard is credited with starting the first crime laboratory in an attic within a Lyon police station during 1910. The history...
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Article 10 mins
Hybrid working: starting in the workplace
Money & Business

Hybrid working: starting in the workplace

...student coming out, you might not think there's a wide network for you. But I think reaching out, starting your LinkedIn profile, and as cheesy as it sounds really helps reaching out to your past alumnis, who, I mean, for me at least, it was great, especially if you're in an industry where you're not sure if you want to be in there, just to get the experience and...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Personality: A user guide
Health, Sports & Psychology

Personality: A user guide

...become stronger as we get older; when we are young, our situation reflects external factors such as the social and family environment we were born into. As we grow older, we are more and more reaping the consequences of our own choices (living in places we ourselves have chosen, doing jobs that we were drawn to, surrounded by people like us whom we have sought out). Thus,...
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Article 10 mins
Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music
History & The Arts

Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music

...become aware of some of the processes that are going on in the music. This deepens our appreciation of the music. These processes – the basic elements of musical language; the building blocks, if you like – include: Tempo: - the speed of the music Pitch: - the way in which notes appear high or low in relation to one another Rhythm: - the length of certain notes, from...
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Article 10 mins
Behind the camera
History & The Arts

Behind the camera

...become a valuable way of using film to say ‘We are here!’ And again this process has become gradually more democratised with advances in technology. In the early days, the assistance of sympathetic professionals was needed, as when pioneering photographers went into the slums to photograph the miserable conditions of the nineteenth-century working classes. Their 1930s...
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Article 10 mins
United We Will Swim: Women’s Role in The Struggle to Save Glasgow’s Govanhill Pool
Society, Politics & Law

United We Will Swim: Women’s Role in The Struggle to Save Glasgow’s Govanhill Pool

...become the flagship project for the Trust. Looking Ahead Looking back from the vantage point of mid-2022, it is evident that the various community programmes that have been launched over the years have flourished. The Community Trust now delivers A Peoples Pantry, Wellbeing Programme, Community Archives, Rags to Riches, Youth Project, Govanhill Baths Arts Programme,...
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Article 5 mins