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Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision

...research, script writing, filming, presenting, and editing, with the primary goal of inspiring her viewers to actively engage with the natural environment around them. In 2012 she established the production company Song Thrush Productions, and has received national and international recognition for her work. She has worked with organisations all over the country,...
What is a scientific model?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a scientific model?

...Centre of Ecology and Hydrology. ADAM RUTHERFORD: At the most basic level, a model is a way of taking data and measurements from the real world and simulating what happens when we fiddle around with them: how much rainfall, the flow of rivers, that type of thing. It’s a way of simplifying the chaos of the physical world, in a computer so that we can try to predict what...
The Bletchley Park connection
History & The Arts

The Bletchley Park connection

...centre during the battle, took note of all the incoming information and observed from hour to hour the many dispositions of ships and aircraft that in the end brought Bismarck to bay. A reconciliation is necessary between appearance and reality. Chris Williams After 1945, many of the people with interesting experiences of the war recorded their recollections. But some...
The Seasons in Art
History & The Arts

The Seasons in Art

...centre stage in the work of the seventeenth century Dutch painter Hendrick Avercamp, who made a speciality of winter landscapes, particularly skating scenes - you have to remember that the period from about 1550 to 1800 was what is known as the little ice age, when it was so cold that rivers often froze over. It was not just landscape painters who evoked winter in their...
The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds
History & The Arts

The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds

...children's playground, and so on. Tim Jordan: And this is a very interesting piece, that that strand continues on into the kind of development of Silicone Valley just south of San Francisco, into the development of notions of network world and stuff - because a lot of the people who went back to the land, who went back to some of the communes then moved into networking...
Why not ‘World Religions’?
History & The Arts

Why not ‘World Religions’?

...children.] Despite all these issues, the World Religions model is still the standard approach in education – so much so, in fact, that it can seem difficult to think of different ways to begin teaching the subject. But the fact is, there are lots of alternatives! Here are just a few: Rather than teaching what members of so-called World Religions supposedly all...
Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Myths in law
Society, Politics & Law

Myths in law

...research after university in how the human brain perceives things in three dimensions. So I did a doctorate in psychology. But I always wanted to ultimately end up being a lawyer. So I qualified as a barrister, and I practised as a barrister in general common law for several years, from I think 1995 till 2010, when I was lucky enough to be appointed as a full-time judge...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...research and development (R&D). On the other side are developing countries, claiming their rights to buy or manufacture existing medicines at low prices to prevent diseases and to help their people. These interests not only conflict, but it is also unclear how either one is best protected. Not everyone believes that strong IPR protection benefits the pharmaceutical...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs