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Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...du Louvre, Paris, inv.1460. Photo: Musée du Louvre/Giraudon/The Bridgeman Art Library. Figure 4 Jacob van Ruisdael, View of Haarlem, c.1670, oil on canvas, 62 × 55 cm. Kunsthaus, Zurich. Photo: Kunsthaus, Zurich/ Giraudon/The Bridgeman Art Library. Figure 5 Jan Steen, The Effects of Intemperance, c.1663–65, oil on panel, 76 × 107 cm. National Gallery, London, NG6442....
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Moons of our Solar System Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...compositions and there doesn’t seem to be a single explanation that holds for all. Even our own Moon’s origin remains a topic of research...Week 1: What are moons?: 3.1 The Moon’s origin - What’s the most likely origin of the Moon? There are three classic explanations but all are flawed in some way. NARRATOR Just exactly how the moons of the Solar System were...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...composition. Endomorphs are suited to power events, such as sumo wrestling. This is as a result of their additional body fat causing an increase in overall body weight and therefore greater difficulty in being pushed out of the ring by opponents.’ So that’s your more academic one. Now listen to the less academic one: ‘An endomorph is one way of describing the shape...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Science, Maths & Technology

Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere

...composition. [Figure 4] Figure 4 Five of Saturn's innermost satellites as imaged by the Voyager spaceprobes, shown at their correct relative sizes. From left to right: Atlas, Pandora (above) and Prometheus (below), Janus (above) and Epimetheus (below). Janus is 99 km in length. The dark line across Epimetheus is the shadow of one of the narrowest of Saturn's rings. (NASA)...
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Level 2: Intermediate 17 hrs
Jorge Luis Borges: A short reading list
History & The Arts

Jorge Luis Borges: A short reading list

...du Sautoy on Jorge Luis Borges The Economist has dipped into its archive and produced a profile from 2004: The writer's passionate anti-Peronism led him towards the contradictory position of embracing, briefly, the murderous military dictatorship of 1976-83. It was, he said, a “necessary evil”. Despite this political naivety, Borges had a nobler vision than many of...
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Straen a phryder yn yr oes ddigidol: Ochr dywyll technoleg
Health, Sports & Psychology

Straen a phryder yn yr oes ddigidol: Ochr dywyll technoleg

...DU yn berchen ar ffôn symudol; ac mae dros dri chwarter y ffonau hynny’n rhai clyfar. Er bod ffonau symudol wedi’u dylunio’n wreiddiol i hwyluso galwadau wrth grwydro, mae arolwg defnyddwyr ffonau symudol (2016) Deloitte yn awgrymu nad yw traean o ddefnyddwyr ffonau clyfar yn gwneud galwadau llais traddodiadol o gwbl. Yn lle, mae ein ffonau’n cael eu defnyddio...
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Article 10 mins
Sut y gall pob un ohonom fynd i'r afael â'n hôl troed carbon digidol
Nature & Environment

Sut y gall pob un ohonom fynd i'r afael â'n hôl troed carbon digidol

...DU ar hyn o bryd, 4.65 yn Ffrainc, 8.56 yn yr Almaen, 4.89 yn Sbaen a 14.08 tunnell yn yr Unol Daleithiau. Ymhlith y deg gwlad sy'n gyfrifol am yr allyriadau carbon mwyaf, dim ond India ac Indonesia sydd islaw'r gyllideb o ddwy dunnell ar hyn o bryd, sef 1.73 ac 1.84 tunnell o allyriadau carbon y pen bob blwyddyn. Bydd angen cryn ymdrech ac ymrwymiad i leihau ein holion...
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Article 5 mins
What You Need to Know About Psychometrics
Health, Sports & Psychology

What You Need to Know About Psychometrics

...composite picture of candidates. These can then be compared, so that the candidate with the highest overall ‘score’ is selected. [woman at work smiling while holding a paper] Types of psychometric test Candidates may be asked to complete an online psychometric test as soon as they apply for a job, either at application or pre-interview, or even perhaps later during...
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Article 10 mins