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Studying mammals: The social climbers
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The social climbers

...think biologists use to describe the visual system in Old World monkeys, apes and humans? Answer Trichromatic, because it involves three light-detecting pigments. Trichromatic vision evolved convergently in only two genera of New World monkeys: howler monkeys and spider monkeys. As discussed in LoM pp. 248 and 255, any ancestral monkeys that were able to detect ripe fruit...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...thinking at the same time. In this course we will concentrate on reading and thinking at the same time about evidence in the form of numbers and in the form of text. The summary 'Evidence in the social sciences: finding it, using it', is a useful place to start: Summary Handling evidence The evidence social scientists gather is shaped by the questions they ask, the claims...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The Seasons in Art
History & The Arts

The Seasons in Art

...think about how artists have depicted summer over the centuries. Before the modern era, people’s sense of the different times of year was really shaped by the cycle of nature, so for them summer meant the fruits and flowers that the earth produces at this season, as you can see from this bizarre figure personifying summer by the 16th century Italian artist Giovanni...
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Video 15 mins
The Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

The Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice

...Thinking History Why did the authorities want to protect the Jews? Jews in Venice offered useful credit facilities. It is not the case that Christians were prevented from providing financial services. Christians were not supposed to lend money at interest (stigmatised as usury), but there was plenty of creative accounting in order to get around this rule, for example by...
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Article 5 mins
Verbal fluency
Health, Sports & Psychology

Verbal fluency

...think and talk...Verbal fluency is, basically, the ease with which a person can produce words. There are several tests of this ability, but most of them involve some sort of category like fruits, words beginning with the letter Q or animals. The person being tested is asked to name as many different examples of the category as they can in a fixed period of time, such as a...
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Article 5 mins
OpenMinds: Open and Shut Cases – Professor Simon Lee’s Inaugural lecture
Miscellaneous

OpenMinds: Open and Shut Cases – Professor Simon Lee’s Inaugural lecture

...think differently and he will question how we can encourage students and the wider public to be open-minded. Finally, he will reflect on Allan Bloom’s challenging book, The Closing of the American Mind from 1987 and the battle-cries of ‘post-truth’ and ‘fake news’ in 2017. He will conclude by encouraging open-mindedness in the decades to come. We very much hope...
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Article 5 mins
Download your language survey kit
History & The Arts

Download your language survey kit

...does not allow you to sort or compare people’s choice of words. We suggest you use a different column for each speaker, and perhaps consider grouping your speakers according to age or gender or any other variable that you think may be particularly significant. This should make it much easier for you to classify and interpret your data. Download the 'Words' sheet (199KB)...
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Activity 5 mins
Do dogs want to go to heaven?
History & The Arts

Do dogs want to go to heaven?

...in heaven or not, but there is evidence that animals can and do want things, and that they act on those desires to shape their futures. These brief examples underpin some of my thinking about the meaning of indigenous peoples’ claims that eagles, bears and other animals participate in religious ceremonies and even, sometimes, in ecological activism. More on religion:...
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Article 10 mins