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Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...University course L161 Exploring languages and cultures...Exploring languages and cultures: Learning outcomes - After studying this course you should be able to: explain what intercultural encounters are and how people can learn from them discuss how the use of English as a lingua franca is perceived by native and non-native English speakers illustrate how different...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
The secret history of teenage bedrooms
Education & Development

The secret history of teenage bedrooms

...University in Toronto, from where he now joins me, while here in the studio I have Sian Lincoln, who’s Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. Jason, going over to you first in Toronto, that Beach Boys song would you agree that it’s captured many of the themes in your book and what in a way almost was the appropriateness of the fact that...
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Article 10 mins
Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit
Science, Maths & Technology

Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit

...guided access is available. On the surface, streams emerge and abruptly disappear underground into swallow holes. Their valleys, formed when the ground was frozen during the last Ice Age (30,000 to 10,000 years ago), are now dry. The typically dry poor soils of limestone areas are not a problem in Fermanagh where the fertile deposits of the last Ice Age form drumlins...
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Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal
Education & Development

Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal

...guided and shared reading where children’s responses were commented upon and evaluated according to the daily learning objectives. There were few real spaces for non-assessed relaxed reading conversations (in pairs or small groups), and few opportunities to talk informally about children’s responses (to literature or non-fiction), to discuss personal preferences, home...
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Article 10 mins
Seeing the internet
Digital & Computing

Seeing the internet

...guide to the streets of New York that points out all the ways in which the hardware of the internet is evident in an ordinary street. She lists manhole covers, street markings, antennae and buildings that house data centres. Ingrid and Dan Williams did something similar in London in late 2015, for an exhibition of data-based artwork. To Ingrid's list of New York internet...
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Article 10 mins
Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)
Science, Maths & Technology

Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)

...GUIDE, J., DRAGILEVA, E., GALE, E., WHEELER, V. C., BOUSTANY, R. M., BROWN, D. E., BRETON, S., RUETHER, K., GAILUS-DURNER, V., FUCHS, H., DE ANGELIS, M. H. & COTMAN, S. L. 2012. Large-scale phenotyping of an accurate genetic mouse model of JNCL identifies novel early pathology outside the central nervous system. PLoS One, 7, e38310. WAGER, K., ZDEBIK, A. A., FU, S.,...
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What made Muhammad Ali "The Greatest"?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What made Muhammad Ali "The Greatest"?

...guided his decision not to serve in the military and, so, to many others, he became a mighty signifier of pacifism. To others he was just another draft dodger. At the nadir of his popularity, he fought Ernie Terrell, who, like Patterson, persisted in calling him “Clay.” The fight in Houston had a grim subtext with Ali constantly taunting Terrell. “What’s my name,...
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Article 5 mins
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...University Press Figure 2: Rist, L. et al. (2013) ‘A new paradigm for adaptive management’, Ecology and Society, vol. 18, no. 4, art. 63. Figure 3: Photo by Jamie Street/Unsplash Audio/Video Video 1: Documentation of Manual Drilling in Lagos and beyond by Rural Water Supply Network. https://vimeo.com/107047730. http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 3.0/ Every...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs