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How to compare income across countries
Science, Maths & Technology

How to compare income across countries

...thinking about purchasing power parity is to consider the local prices paid for a globalised product, and then relate the local prices to a “standardised” price, such as the price in dollars. A lighthearted and informal way of understanding this is to consider the “Big Mac Index”, introduced by The Economist magazine in 1986, which is described as follows: "in the...
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Squares, roots and powers
Science, Maths & Technology

Squares, roots and powers

...think of having more of her family to stay. He said he would be prepared to double the number of bags he gave her each week. At this point his accountant got very agitated and asked him to consider very carefully what he was offering! What was he worried about? Answer In order to decide if the king was being exceptionally generous, you need to look at exactly what he was...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Gweithio hybrid: llesiant a chynhwysiant
Money & Business

Gweithio hybrid: llesiant a chynhwysiant

...think we also have to be mindful that we’re still kind of emerging from the pandemic. And actually, that had a very real and long-lasting impact on people’s wellbeing, which I think we’re going to have to be mindful of for a good number of years while people just re-find their feet and are dealing with a drastically changing world of work around them at the same...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...thinking. The image insists not so much on Napoleon's glorious destiny as on his executive role as head of government and the benefits of his rule. This portrait established the standard image of Bonaparte as First Consul; it served as the model for several further portraits commissioned from Gros and other artists, usually to hang in public buildings in provincial cities...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...systems (structure), rather than the diachronic dimension (historical development). Change in ‘style’ and even the definition of ‘art’ is central to art history, so the static structuralist approach brings with it considerable problems. It introduced an aporia (unsolvable riddle) into conceptualisations of the artist-subject. It is this second point that we are...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities
Nature & Environment

Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities

...think that all those involved in Scottish fishing were enthusiastic supporters of Brexit. Most inshore and shellfish fishermen were anti-Brexit, while many of the owners of larger trawlers and some fish processing firms in the North East of Scotland tended to be pro-EU withdrawal. Further, following the UK-EU withdrawal deal that was arrived just before Christmas 2020,...
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Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view
History & The Arts

Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view

...think, a simple case of cause and effect, with the balloon coming first, nor did both devices emerge from the same set of circumstances, for example, the balloon’s uptake depended on the availability of hydrogen that had only just been successfully combined. But the panorama undoubtedly schooled its visitors in a mode of viewing that was compatible with ballooning. And...
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Exploring Religion in London
History & The Arts

Exploring Religion in London

...think most people’s eye would be drawn to the cross, which is called ‘The Great Rood’. You’ve got the pulpit, which has got an image of Our Lady of Walsingham, but your eye is drawn to the baldacchino, which is in yellow Verona marble. Our Ladies’ chapel, which was one of the first parts of the cathedral to be completed and where they said mass first – you...
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