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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
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
What was Lewis Carroll like?
History & The Arts

What was Lewis Carroll like?

...think there was ever such a fairy-land for children. I am sure they must have contained one of the finest collections of musical-boxes to be found anywhere in the world. There were big black ebony boxes with glass tops through which you could see all the works. There was a big box with a handle, which it was quite hard exercise for a little girl to turn, and there must...
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Article 10 mins
The search for water on Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

The search for water on Mars

...System. For this reason, the discovery of water is the primary goal of many space missions. Despite being 55 million kilometres from Earth, Mars (Figure 1b) can often be spotted with the naked eye in the night sky as a reddish-orange object (Figure 2). It has been observed throughout human history, with the earliest record dating back to ancient Egypt, and for this reason...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 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