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DIY: Measuring latitude and longitude
Society, Politics & Law

DIY: Measuring latitude and longitude

...think. Accurate readings can only be taken at noon, when the sun is at its highest in the sky. To complicate matters further, the sun rises higher in summer than in winter, and this must be allowed for in any calculation. Being so far away and only one of a myriad stars visible to the naked eye, the North Star isn't as easy to find as the sun. Furthermore, you can only...
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Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences
Science, Maths & Technology

Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences

...systems. These are just a few examples of mathematics in our lives that immediately spring to mind, and I could go on and on. But this is not why mathematics fills me with wonder and awe. All I have said so far is that mathematics is a useful science, perhaps almost as useful as engineering. And that really would be missing the special nature of mathematics. It would be...
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QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations
Health, Sports & Psychology

QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations

...think an effective pipeline could look like let’s take some comments from Didier Drogba and Laura Georges, who are pundits for the BBC at the 2022 Qatar World Cup. Drogba expressed how he saw and felt the differences when managed by Sven-Goran Eriksson, a White Swedish coach, and an Ivorian-born coach, specifically that Sven, albeit an experienced coach, didn’t have...
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Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...think about ‘treatment escalation plans’ that indicate a range of treatment decisions and encourage those caring for the patient to continue routine care as appropriate. The sociologist, Kellehear (2007) points out that dying does not take place in a social and physical vacuum. For example, it has implications for the way in which medicalised dying is managed. When...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
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
Looking at, describing and identifying objects
History & The Arts

Looking at, describing and identifying objects

...think might be related to its use? Is there any evidence of damage or wear on the surfaces? [Described image] Figure 3 An object from the British Museum, ivory, length 4.7cm, depth 4cm. British Museum, London, 2008,3007.8. Photo: © The Trustees of the British Museum Discussion There is not much to go on. The object is small – it could fit into a hand. It is intricately...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Understanding Alice
History & The Arts

Understanding Alice

...thinking about the two sides of the author of the Alice books. It is easy to assume that Charles Dodgson fascination with the kind of logic behind puzzles was closely related to his professional life as a mathematician. Thinking again about the personal nature of Alice and Dodgson’s propensity to conceal insider references behind disguises however, suggests other...
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Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life
History & The Arts

Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life

...think farther. Or, when I thought of the education of my children, I said to myself: ‘Why?’ Or, reflecting on the manner in which the masses might obtain their welfare, I suddenly said to myself: ‘What is that to me?’ Or, thinking of the fame which my works would get me, I said to myself: ‘All right, you will be more famous than Gógol, Pushkin, Shakespeare,...
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