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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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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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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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Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...students aged 3–19 years as it is realised today across global contexts identifying drivers for change in education. Week 1 activity planner ACTIVITY DETAILS TIME 1 Read the Education in numbers infographic and consider reflection points. 30 minutes 2 Watch the video RSA Animate: Changing Education Paradigms and contribute to the working wall. 45 minutes 3 Watch the...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 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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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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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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Planetary Protection: Space Governance and the Search for Life
Science, Maths & Technology

Planetary Protection: Space Governance and the Search for Life

...become the internationally recognised ‘gold standard’. This policy contains a set of scientific guidelines or recommendations for the avoidance of ‘harmful contamination’. It categorises planets (and moons like Europa) based on their potential for life (or signs of life, past or present). These categories call for differing levels of protective measures (Mars is...
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