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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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture
Languages

Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture

...changed last letter in their names: Sofiie instead of Sofiia and Taniu instead of Tania. This is a special grammar form which you shouldn’t worry about. Ukrainians often ignore it (although teachers, including me, disagree with this), so you can just say person’s name as it is. As Sofiia and Tania are friends, they ask each other how they are doing. First person asks...
Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law
Science, Maths & Technology

Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law

...change of momentum normal d times bold p solidus normal d times t or, when the force is applied to a body with a mass that does not change with time, its mass m multiplied by its acceleration bold a . Mathematically this is written as multiline equation line 1 equation sequence part 1 bold cap f equals part 2 normal d times bold p divided by normal d times t equals part 3...