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Lying and politics: a brief primer
Society, Politics & Law

Lying and politics: a brief primer

...change their story. Scenarios such as these are a perfect example of political gaslighting – the way that an authority figure purposefully manipulates the truth in order to control the psychological state of others. The term ‘gaslighting’ comes from the title of a 1939 play by Patrick Hamilton, in which the heroine is psychologically tortured by her husband. Slowly...
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Using visualisation in maths teaching
Education & Development

Using visualisation in maths teaching

...change. Four operations. Ratio; sharing and mixing. Adding – climbing up; subtraction – falling down. Fractions – imagine an object divided up. Imagine a number line. Fractions, decimals, percentages, ratio, four rules of number, solving problems. Can this work have a place within the National Curriculum? It should because it makes learning fun and memorable and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...changes altered the pharmacological properties. As in all areas of medicinal chemistry, modern techniques such as genomics, proteomics, X-ray crystallography and molecular modelling have served to provide new insights into how the steroids interact with receptors and enzymes, and to design new drugs based on that understanding. Steroids are defined as having a particular...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Visions of protest: graffiti
History & The Arts

Visions of protest: graffiti

...climate of fear for those using and working on the railways. Graffiti also poses safety issues. Vandals often put their lives at risk in the act of spraying difficult surfaces, such as bridges or trains in sidings, putting themselves and others in danger. And the costs of cleaning up are enormous. Network Rail estimate that it costs at least £5 million per year to clean...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...changes to the interior decor of the Pavilion. Of these, certainly the most interesting and prophetic was his development of the interior into a Chinese fantasy between 1802 and 1804, a development perhaps suggested by his fantasy of a ‘pavilion’ – a term that by now was being applied to small garden buildings of a Chinese style. He hung his newly decorated rooms...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Introducing vectors for engineering applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing vectors for engineering applications

...changes over an interval of time, or an area or volume of space. Figure 1, for example, illustrates vector fields created by magnets (in part (a)) and fluid flow (in part (b)). A vector field can be thought of as a graph where every coordinate has not only a position, but also a magnitude and direction. In the images in Figure 1, these are represented by small arrows,...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Exploring Homer’s Odyssey
History & The Arts

Exploring Homer’s Odyssey

...climate activist Greta Thunberg; and an exhausted-looking medical worker dressed in blue surgical scrubs, disposable gloves and a hair covering, and holding a disposable face mask.] Figure 2 Heroes in the modern world. Perhaps when you were asked what the word hero means to you, you thought about films you have seen or books you have read to help you to formulate your...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...change their minds, and I kind of had the intuition that it was something like that that lay behind these things, because to repeat it’s not built in phases, it’s all built in one go, but it still looks somewhat weird. Eleanor Betts So what is it that’s going wrong there? Mark Wilson Jones Really the problem is with the height of the portico. And if it were simply...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs