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Design from the inside
Science, Maths & Technology

Design from the inside

...thinking about how it works, and the ingenuity that it represents?...It’s likely that, in such a situation, your thoughts are drawn to the detail apparent in the external form, perhaps to the interlocking cleverness of stacking chairs, or the flowing curves of a car panel, or maybe to the functional elegance of a kitchen utensil. If your thoughts lead you deeper into...
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The meaning of home in later life
Health, Sports & Psychology

The meaning of home in later life

...think of home we think of something that is not just the material environment. It involves the social, the psychological and the structural environments. It is a concept that is more complex and says something about personal meaning and identity, about family and friends, our life history. It varies depending on our age, gender, culture and generation. Given this...
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Teaching Languages for long-term memory
Languages

Teaching Languages for long-term memory

...think in detail about the process of driving; they learnt it and now they simply do it from memory. If you had to think in detail about everything involved in driving in your working memory, you would be exhausted! Similarly, using vocabulary or grammatical structures in French for the first time requires a lot of focused thought. Consequently, as much information as...
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Jediism: Will the Real Religion Please Stand Up
History & The Arts

Jediism: Will the Real Religion Please Stand Up

...think again. We are accustomed to thinking and talking about religion in particular ways: they are supposed to have founders, texts, rituals and buildings. They are also supposed to be old and they are supposed to be philosophical explorations of the big questions—the meaning of life, death, the universe and everything. But the significance of Jediism—in our age of...
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Knife crime is a health risk for young people – it can’t be solved by policing alone
Education & Development

Knife crime is a health risk for young people – it can’t be solved by policing alone

...think it’s because like the young ones they’re looking to the elders isn’t it, like and they see what the elders do. – Santi, aged 17. They also talked about the need to have “back up”, and the protection that comes from “moving” in a big group of friends. To them, “road life” (the young people’s experiences in their neighbourhoods and other public...
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Mastering our fear of death with the Jack-o’-lantern
History & The Arts

Mastering our fear of death with the Jack-o’-lantern

...thinking about death, a festival can allow that which is pushed to the back of our minds to come into awareness – albeit in a safe and manageable way. Festival can be understood like this: as a temporary suspension of our usual rules or ways of coping; a time when familiar oppositions – such as life and death, inside and outside, self and other – become uncertain....
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A question of ethics: right or wrong?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A question of ethics: right or wrong?

...think it is important that as a footballer I am employed to help my team to win every match. Whilst some of my on-field behaviour may not be morally acceptable I can always justify my actions to myself.' Comment The main point here is that values are personal and what we think is important whilst morals are not decided or defined by ourselves. Morals are cultural or...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...System of Units). Examples of SI units are the kilogram or tonne for mass and the litre for volume. This course uses SI units wherever possible, but on occasions it will be necessary (or just more convenient) to go along with the oil industry and quote values in barrels. In order to translate the units used in oil industry publications to those more commonly used in...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs