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The Life of Socrates
History & The Arts

The Life of Socrates

...world during Alexander's conquests. Socrates was born c. 469/470 BCE to the sculptor Sophronicus and the mid-wife Phaenarete. He studied music, gymnastics, and grammar in his youth (the common subjects of study for a young Greek) and followed his father's profession as a sculptor. Tradition holds that he was an exceptional artist, and his statue of the Graces, on the road...
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Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...worlds, unsurprisingly we get better predictive power. RH: A group of scientists who call themselves the Lukewarmers say that actually when you base your predictions on observations rather than on the very complicated global circulation computer models, that actually it looks like warming will be less than we thought when we double CO2, we might get away with perhaps...
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Jack Perks - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Jack Perks - Earth in Vision

...world Well it’s kind of stereotypical to say it but I’ve done it since I can remember, since I was a child catching sticklebacks and tadpoles in a jam jar, that kind of Huckleberry Finn sort of thing. And then a few years later cameras came into it, so photography, stills photographer and then that spiralled out of control and I got into the filmmaking side of it and...
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The impact of technology on children's physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of technology on children's physical activity

...World Health Organization (WHO, 2016) reported that 81 per cent of adolescents aged 11–17 years were insufficiently physically active in 2010. Health professionals and organisations are implementing many interventions aimed at increasing levels of physical activity to address childhood obesity and general health. [Described image] Figure 1 Family interacting with...
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A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...world. Therefore, it does not say anything one way or another about the creation of the world. [Fish] The Arguments: Dr Anne Campbell [Anne Campbell] Dr Anne Campbell is a Reader in the Psychology Department, University of Durham. Dr Campbell is an evolutionary psychologist who thinks that you can't have a full understanding of the human mind without looking at how the...
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Supporting children’s learning in primary education today
Education & Development

Supporting children’s learning in primary education today

...world, politicians, policy makers, academics, educationalists, parents and children alike all grapple with this question in different ways and for different reasons. The way you think about education is influenced by your own values and beliefs, the values and beliefs of others, political ideologies, socio-economic climate, religion, culture, acquisition of knowledge or...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...world a better place means picking up litter and not killing whales.” Where does children’s rights come in there? This is called an inaugural lecture and I suppose the idea came from a youngish professor inaugurating or instituting a program of work over the next 20 years or so. Well, I haven’t got that long time ahead of me, so instead I hope that the Institute...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...world in that it presents me with a problem that I then try and solve. It might pose a question that the novel tries to solve. The Mistress class was inspired by, I can’t remember what now, it’s so long ago, it’s vanished into the unconscious. I think it was inspired by a real situation in my life in that I have sisters, I’m very interested in the relationships...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs