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Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology

...history of life and the story of evolution. Rocks can provide a narrative of the Earth's history, but we need to learn how to read their tales. The aims of this section are to demonstrate how many of the features shown by rocks are inherited from the processes that formed the rock, to introduce you to the skills of sketching features seen in rock exposures, and to show...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...history. They’re probably the most widespread and enduring example of a ‘regime of identification’. The term ‘regime of identification’ refers to systematic efforts made by administrative bodies and governments to identify and register their populations. The regimes we’ll study in this section had some very different aims, but they share some common...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Egyptian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Egyptian mathematics

...history - Only a small number of the surviving Egyptian papyri are concerned with mathematical calculations – perhaps a dozen or so in all, of which the earliest dates from about 1850 BC and the most recent from AD 750. The two major ones are the Rhind Papyrus (named after the man who bought it on his holidays in Luxor in 1858), which you can see in the British Museum,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Writing what you know
History & The Arts

Writing what you know

...histories to form the basis of their work...Do you want to improve your descriptive writing? This free course, Writing what you know, will help you to develop your perception of the world about you and enable you to see the familiar things in everyday life in a new light. You will also learn how authors use their own personal histories to form the basis of their...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Percy Shelley: Polemicist
History & The Arts

Percy Shelley: Polemicist

...history (for him) in the form of the American Revolution for confirmation of this fact. As Shelley put it in his poem: “Then will oppression’s iron influence show; The great man’s comfort as the poor man’s woe.” How to achieve peaceful and lasting change in modern societies remains an unanswered question, and one that’s ripe for fresh action and inspiration....
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Florida just wants it over
Society, Politics & Law

Florida just wants it over

...history. They take a pragmatic view of her wheeling and dealing and lapses of judgement, arguing – not unreasonably – that there’s probably no politician who has reached her level of power without sailing close to the wind. For Trump’s most vehement supporters, meanwhile, a Clinton victory would simply confirm that the system is, as their hero likes to proclaim,...
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Article 5 mins
Do fictional characters shift perceptions of transgender people?
History & The Arts

Do fictional characters shift perceptions of transgender people?

...history of addressing LGBTQ issues, so Anna’s episode was unlikely to attract a particularly trans-supportive audience. For us, this made it the ideal show to study transgender portrayals and how they might influence viewers across the ideological spectrum. Do minor subplots make a difference? Because HH&S had consulted on the storyline, the members of USA Network’s...
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Is Donald Trump ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon?
Nature & Environment

Is Donald Trump ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon?

...history. Eleven workers died in the explosion and sinking of the oil rig, and more than 4 million barrels of oil were released into the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists have estimated that the spill caused more than US$17 billion in damages to natural resources. I served on the bipartisan National Commission that investigated the causes of this epic blowout. We spent six months...
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