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Science and society: A career and professional development course
Education & Development

Science and society: A career and professional development course

...article the late John Ziman revisits the ‘CUDOS’ norms that were initially outlined by the American sociologist Robert Merton. As you read this short article, please make notes on the following questions: To what extent do the ‘social norms’ of Robert Merton – encapsulated in the acronym CUDOS – apply to science as you have experienced it? Ziman (writing in...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum

...article (‘”No” to the Capitalists’ Common Market’, 30 January 1975) stated that staying in the Common Market was “a life-and-death question for Britain’s capitalists” and for that reason “the working class should be opposed to the Common Market”. The EEC was “a capitalist institution, designed to strengthen the power of the ruling classes of the...
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Video 2 hrs
Using digital tools to save languages
Languages

Using digital tools to save languages

...recording and publishing the languages in your environment and publishing them publicly with open licenses, and in the process, save them from joining the legions that die each year. This article is based on a talk given by the author on July 15, 2017 at the TEDx Youth@AmaatraAcademy in Bangalore, India, and was originally published by GlobalVoices under a CC-BY licence...
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Video 5 mins
How to age well while self-isolating
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to age well while self-isolating

...article and video offer some tips on how to combat these...Transcript In a series of online and face-to-face mini-lectures, known as the Ageing Well Public Talks, we have been exploring how important it is, over our lifespan, to maintain well-balanced nutrition and hydration as well as regular physical and social activity as we get older. The principles discussed during...
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Video 10 mins
England’s Historic Battlefields: the Wars of the Roses
History & The Arts

England’s Historic Battlefields: the Wars of the Roses

...article and associated film finds out...Transcript Battlefields are integral to ‘our nation’s story’. Battles determined the fate of individual kings, changed the country’s linguistic and cultural character, and defined our very identity. As such, the places where these clashes of arms took place are contested spaces whose meaning and significance – and even...
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Video 10 mins
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...article ‘Agricultural land prices hit record high’ (The Guardian, 2011) for some background information on land prices. Then watch the video Land Prices in East Anglia and, as you watch, think about the questions below and note your answers in text boxes provided. NARRATOR: East Anglia has some of the best farming land in the United Kingdom, with a wide diversity of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Everyday English 1
Languages

Everyday English 1

...article. Try to say why each of these texts was written. Discussion Here are some ideas as to why each of these texts was written: cartoon: to entertain you or make you laugh front-page news item: to tell you what is happening in the world letter to the editor: to share an idea or opinion with other readers job advert: to let people know about a vacancy so they can find a...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Matt Ridley - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Matt Ridley - Stories of Change

...et al. 1999, and I thought wow! I was wrong to be sceptical, this is really scary, because it’s clearly unprecedented, it bears no relation to what’s happened at the Medieval warm period and that kind of thing, and so when in the following years I’ve discovered – RH: So you wrote about it at that point? MR: No I didn’t, I wasn’t writing about climate change...
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