2,595 search results
Form and uses of language
History & The Arts

Form and uses of language

...change from ‘refused’ to ‘failed to attend’ on the second page. (Sassoon Papers, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum) At the end of the war he published his diaries and a semi-autobiographical novel The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston in which the details of his protest, and his disillusionment with the conduct of the war, were made public. Much of...
View course Form and uses of language
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...change it, etc. but the impact it’s had on time for me, it’s amazing. Teaching – it’s taken me to outstanding which I never thought I would get to, considering I’m from a school that had a 15% pass rate at school. Impact on the students they love it because some of the resources and the sound effects and some of the fun things that have come up, are absolutely...
View course Teachers sharing resources online
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...changing the course of history. Variolation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries used material from ‘mild’ smallpox cases to infect healthy people, most of whom developed protective immunity, but there was a 2–3 per cent death rate. In 1796 Edward Jenner began experiments that led to widespread vaccination with cowpox virus (vaccinia), which elicits...
View course Vaccination
Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...changing, e.g. permanent injury such as blindness or loss of mobility 5 – Imminent (will occur regularly) You may see the same idea expressed as a matrix, using a ‘traffic light’ system to indicate the acceptability of different risks. An example is shown in Figure 2, but note that different industries will use different criteria for what is acceptable. [Described...
View course Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece
History & The Arts

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

...male and female, who wanted to know about sex and making babies. Long after medical theories about reproduction and childbirth had changed, the book continued to promise readers access to hidden secrets and titillating details, a promise whose luster seems to have remained bright until almost yesterday. This article was originally published at the Public Domain Review...
View article Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece
Article 10 mins
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?

...changing demographics. The result is a toxic brew of fear and paranoia. A January 2016 CNN poll found that 88 percent of Republicans believe that America is headed in the wrong direction. With a crisis-like atmosphere prevailing within the GOP, conservative and evangelical voters are far less interested in ideological consistency in their candidates than they have been in...
View article Ahead of Super Tuesday, what have we learned about the candidates?
Article 5 mins
Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list

...change in US and European foreign policy vis-à-vis the Middle East can reduce the risk of further terrorism’. Read: Europe’s recent attacks underline the need for a new strategy to combat terrorism In Syria itself, though, the majority of young men are not signing up to fight for ISIS, and it might be worth pausing to consider why. Lana Khattab of International Alert...
View article Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list
Article 30 mins
How far was the Brexit vote "the will of the people" - and what does that mean?
Society, Politics & Law

How far was the Brexit vote "the will of the people" - and what does that mean?

...changed my mind on the best way forward since my first blog on the issue in the immediate aftermath of the referendum. But I did so not because I have been a life-long LibDem supporter or because, as a Swiss dual-national, I believe that direct democracy is necessarily the best of all forms of government, but because of what happened since then: I simply underestimated at...
View article How far was the Brexit vote "the will of the people" - and what does that mean?
Article 5 mins