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On-screen graphic design: The early years of television
Science, Maths & Technology

On-screen graphic design: The early years of television

...children’s series Doctor Who in 1963. By exploiting the effect that occurs when a television camera is pointed towards a monitor, he was able to convey the idea of time travel and space fiction and created what became the famous title sequence. When he reworked the sequence in 1973, he again used techniques that were new to the profession, by using a computer controlled...
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A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp

...centre of Christianity should have touched this man more deeply than almost any other. That it was beginning to touch and mould him, I verily believe. He died and made _that_ sign. Of what music did that storm in Spezia Bay rob the world! "The Cross leads generations on." Believing as I do that my own personal decease is not more certain than that our religion will subdue...
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Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...children and property and women, is two drachmae when he disembarks at the Piraeus. The quote above is taken from Plato's dialogue Gorgias (§511d–e). In this and the following passage, which is likely to seem more than a little insensitive to present day readers, Socrates compares the work of two professions — the navigators or ship's skippers and the engineers –...
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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

...children: William (1805); sadly, another William (1806); John (1808); Ann (1809); and Charlot (1812). Sarah noted that the book had been given to her by her aunt, who lived in Curry Rivel, a mere ten miles from Dowlish Wake. Fackerell was not the only person to use a book about making babies to record a family’s births. In 1832, Edward Wiett went to court in Tennessee...
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Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list

...children was the main reason why they stopped fighting or did not engage in it in the first place. Read: Why most Syrian men are not joining ISIS What of young men in Europe? There are calls for increased efforts to counter the effects of "self-radicalisation". Griffith University's Keiran Hardy points out that the UK's Prevent program hasn't been a total success:...
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Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...words like environment and global warming and climate change, so that people feel able to do it and feel that it relates to them. Planet Earth: Optimist or pessimist? Pessimistic is… I don’t like the word pessimistic actually because you all feel that you want to do something about the world or leave something to your children or not leave the world in such a mess....
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Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...words like environment and global warming and climate change, so that people feel able to do it and feel that it relates to them. Planet Earth: Optimist or pessimist? I don’t like the word pessimistic actually because you all feel that you want to do something about the world or leave something to your children or not leave the world in such a mess. ...
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Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis

...children and young people: Perspectives from Western Australia. Journal of Paediatric Child Health, 57 (11), pp. 1759-1764. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/jpc.15649 (Accessed: 25 May 2023). Ojala, M. (2016) ‘Facing Anxiety in Climate Change Education: From Therapeutic Practice to Hopeful Transgressive Learning’. Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 21,...
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