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Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots
Education & Development

Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots

...de la Serre to develop his Ecriture Nocturne (night reading) system. Barbier used a 6x6 grid with raised dots to represent the letters (and some common pairs of letters) of the French alphabet. [Barbier's sonography ('night writing')] Sonography In 1821 Barbier demonstrated his system at the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles (Royal Institute for Blind Youth) in Paris...
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Article 10 mins
Icarus: entering the world of myth
History & The Arts

Icarus: entering the world of myth

...des Beaux Arts). These subsequent versions of the myth may on the surface depart from Ovid’s narrative, and you should note that the poem is actually reacting to the painting in the first instance, and is, therefore, ‘once removed’ from Ovid. If you already have some skills of visual analysis or feel comfortable with literary critiques of twentieth-century poetry,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Ymdopi ag Iselder
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ymdopi ag Iselder

...Le vide, y gwagle, y gwacter ac mae o’n ... ofnadwy. [Stephen Fry] Sylwadau Er bod teimladau o ofn a thristwch fel arfer yn ymatebion priodol a normal i bethau sy’n digwydd mewn bywyd, maen nhw’n gallu datblygu i fod mor oruchafol ac anodd eu trin nes bod pobl yn gofyn am help proffesiynol i ddelio â nhw. Mae'r anawsterau hyn yn aml yn cael eu hystyried yn...
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Article 30 mins
Mathematics for science and technology Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mathematics for science and technology

...mode. Step 2 You should then be able to input all the data; sometimes these data are stored via a memory button, in other cases they can be entered and displayed as a list. Enter the following set of numbers: 8, 6, 9, 12, 10 Step 3 Having input the data, you can then get most calculators to tell you the number of items of data. If your calculator can do this, it should...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
How to age well while self-isolating
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to age well while self-isolating

...modes of communication (watching TV, listening to the radio, reading magazines, books, crosswords), we may need to mobilise our networks from distance and not be too reserved to pick up the phone and speak to friends and relatives. This is perhaps a good time to learn a new language (which has been reported by research as immensely stimulating – together with playing...
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Video 10 mins
The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on
Science, Maths & Technology

The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on

...mode...Anybody who was in northern Pakistan on October 8 2005 will never forget where they were and what they were doing the moment the world started to shake. I was standing in my garden in Islamabad, as the ground seemed to sway one way and the house lurched the other. Instantly we knew that this was a massive earthquake – but just how massive only became clear once...
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Article 5 mins
Fossil evidence for evolution
History & The Arts

Fossil evidence for evolution

...mode of evolutionary change and never over the fact of evolution itself, contrary to some Creationist misinformation. Investigations of population genetics and more detailed studies of fossil lineages have subsequently shown that neither Mayr's assumptions concerning the role of population size in speciation, nor Gould and Eldredge's inference about punctuational...
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Article 10 mins
Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology
Society, Politics & Law

Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology

...mode of intervention, which requires some form of collective action’. Taking either or both of these approaches means that public health is always ‘political’: governments commission and fund most public health functions and decisions about which harms, groups or practices to target, by which methods, are often a matter of political controversy. Governments and...
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Article 15 mins