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Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...simple style, which developed partly as a reaction to the complexity and artifice of the Italian opera aria with its elements of display and its international star singers. One important factor in this development was the influence of folk-song, an influence which was also important in Goethe's writing. One of Goethe's mentors as a student was Johann Gottfried Herder, who...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Simplistic models for understanding Coronavirus: Helpful or harmful?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Simplistic models for understanding Coronavirus: Helpful or harmful?

...simple system process that has two stages: The population (Bucket 1, which is a population of 65 million) and the health system (which has limited capacity). This system is shown below. [Systems model depicting spread of coronavirus] Systems model in Footman 477 YouTube video The key problem with this model is its oversimplification of a complex dynamic process. One does...
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Sacrificial Metals
Science, Maths & Technology

Sacrificial Metals

...simple oxide Fe2O3 but is a compound that actually contains water molecules. It can be represented by Fe2O3.nH2O where n can vary according to the conditions under which the rust forms. The water molecules are incorporated into spaces within the crystal structure of iron oxide. Iron (and steel) is not weather-resistant yet it does find widespread use because of its...
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A new mission to the icy moons of Jupiter
Science, Maths & Technology

A new mission to the icy moons of Jupiter

...simple organic compounds on Enceladus. Starting with them, I’m trying to understand what more complex compounds might be created in the temperature and pressure conditions of the ocean floor of Enceladus. Specifically, I’m trying to understand if you could synthesise the kind of complex organic chemicals that life needs, such as sugars and amino acids. Grace: My focus...
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Group theory
Science, Maths & Technology

Group theory

...simple cases decide whether a given group is cyclic, and given a finite cyclic group, find a generator for a subgroup of a given order express a given finite cyclic group as the direct product of cyclic groups of prime power order and, given two direct products of cyclic groups, determine whether or not they are isomorphic express products of elements of a group defined...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...simple additions or subtractions. The lowest tier of de Prony’s scheme were eighty relatively unskilled workers who actually produced the mathematical tables. So long as they followed the list of additions and subtractions in the correct order (and got the right result), they would arrive at the right result. Babbage saw de Prony’s monumental tables and made the next...
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Free digital, numeracy and employability courses to build your skills
Education & Development

Free digital, numeracy and employability courses to build your skills

...coding, programming or digital marketing. These are a small selection of free courses to boost your skills from The Open University. Many others are available by exploring OpenLearn. You might like to visit The Skills Toolkit from the National Careers Service, where you can find many more courses to help you learn new skills or change jobs. Once you’ve finished...
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Thailand: The Politics of Blood
Society, Politics & Law

Thailand: The Politics of Blood

...the arresting symbolism and imagery, issues of democracy, welfare, education and human rights are at stake - in a political crisis that is not going to go away. Perspective: The Politics of Blood Join the BBC's Asia correspondent, Alastair Leithead, and author and historian Chris Baker, for an insight into the colour coded protests and political problems facing Thailand....
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