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Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece
History & The Arts

Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece

...solid framework of contemporary knowledge about the basics of pregnancy, childbirth, and infant health, detailing topics such as the signs of pregnancy, how to tell false labor from true, the various positions the baby might present in, etc. Not surprisingly, since it was plagiarized from another midwifery book, this information was largely unexceptional. The book’s...
Ahead of Super Tuesday, what have we learned about the candidates?
Society, Politics & Law

Ahead of Super Tuesday, what have we learned about the candidates?

...solid support for Clinton. She currently leads Sanders 3-to-1 among African-American voters. Not surprisingly, therefore, the polls indicate that Clinton will likely win a landslide victory in South Carolina. Things only get worse for Sanders on March 1, the date of the “Super Tuesday” primaries. Nearly a dozen states vote that day, including Alabama, Arkansas,...
Discovering music through listening
History & The Arts

Discovering music through listening

...sang a different pitch which formed the harmony. This moved together with the melody and created block chords. Audio 5 was polyphonic. The singers sang different melodies which interwove to form a pleasing harmony. Audio 31 was an example of a monophonic texture with a single, unaccompanied singer...Week 4: Texture, dynamics and structure: 1.3 Creating dynamic change in...
Beginners’ French: A trip to Avignon
Languages

Beginners’ French: A trip to Avignon

...liquide cash par carte de crédit by credit card par chèque by cheque avec un chèque en euros by eurocheque par chèque de voyage by traveller's cheque To check how you want to pay, you will be asked: Vous payez comment ? To check whether you can pay by a certain type of credit card, you can ask: Vous prenez…? (Do you take…?) or Vous acceptez…? Activité 35...
Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...liquidity trap? When interest rates have gone as low as the Bank of England feels able to take them, then it has lost control of the economy. That is the situation right now. The only duty of the chancellor in that situation is to give the Bank of England back control through a fiscal stimulus – something he has not done. If he did do this, however, the short-term...
Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...liquid that boils at low temperature (about –15 °C). At point 1 in Figure 18 it starts as a cool liquid at a low pressure. b.In order to convert this cool liquid to a vapour, it must be given energy – the so-called latent heat of evaporation. c.The refrigerant absorbs heat from the heat source in a heat exchanger, called the evaporator, and it vaporizes (point 2)....
The family at the centre of early learning
Education & Development

The family at the centre of early learning

...sang to her daughter and her own childhood experiences. Others will be less obvious or may take you more time to reflect on. Try to keep these in mind and return to them as you work your way through the course. The family and the culture surrounding it are in many respects the foundations of children’s learning and so the connections are more deep-seated than we at...
Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...solid particles (dust) emitted from processes and dispersed in the atmosphere. The term can also include liquid droplets. * Recycling Re-processing waste or scrap materials for the production of new goods or services on the same quality level. If the quality of the goods and services produced with recycled material is lower, then the process has been called downcycling....