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Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...division of the world into Global North and South, overlook the lingering impact of European colonisation, and the colonial roots of the climate crisis. Aotearoa is the te reo Māori (Māori language) name for the country. The act of renaming the islands as ‘New Zealand’ was part of a widespread colonising act of claiming possession of land. As Logan-Riley and Ratuva...
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Article 5 hrs
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...division has been done with an eye on the philosophical issues and problems to be discussed in what follows. There are lots of things that do not fit neatly into any of these categories – hope, expectation, wonder, fascination and dreaming, for example. Some of these may well be in some sense combinations of more primitive and simpler cognitive and conative elements,...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...divisive and socially corrosive has been around since before the French Revolution. What's changed is we now can look at the evidence. We can compare societies, more and less equal societies, and see what inequality does. I'm going to take you through that data and then explain why the links that I think I'm going to be showing you exist. But first, see what a miserable...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...division of Scotland along the Highland/Lowland line reflects only the latter part of the country’s long history. Indeed, of recorded Scottish languages, Gaelic defers solely to English with regard to its maximum geographical extent. The only modern administrative regions which have no significant Gaelic heritage are the Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland, which...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...divisive one, opposition to the nuclear tests became more widely shared among Polynesians. [A poster with the following text: To the French government. Notice to quit the Pacific. For: nuclear testing. Denial of independence. Free Tahiti and New Caledonia.] Figure 5 This poster, produced in the early 1980s by the New Zealand-based Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...division multiplexing) within a link's available bandwidth, but today time division multiplexing is widely employed to accommodate a mix of digitised voice and data traffic. In digital networks, greater difficulty may be experienced in identifying or selecting individual channels. However, agencies with an interest in selecting potentially valuable information from a mass...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...division. Just as in the first soliloquy, Faustus is talking to himself, but on this occasion the voice we hear sounds markedly less confident. One possible reason for this is that the speech is peppered with questions which seem to betray his uncertainty about his chosen course of action; for example, in line 3 he asks himself, ‘What boots it [what use is it] then to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Minerals and the crystalline state
Science, Maths & Technology

Minerals and the crystalline state

...divisions on the graticule every 10 mm. Question 2 Now go to 'Red crystals in gneiss' in the 'Garnet' list. Go to coordinates X = 1860, Y = 930. (Note that, hereafter, the X and Y labels will be omitted on all coordinates, e.g. this point would be '(1860, 930)'.) Is any red garnet visible at the point denoted by the cross hairs? Answer No, garnet is not visible at this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs