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Exploring philosophy: faking nature
History & The Arts

Exploring philosophy: faking nature

...artificial, and that it is a copy, more or less, that might kind of affect our experience of those sensorial features. So whilst we're getting all the same kind of inputs, like it sounds the same and looks the same, we can take all those on board. But we know that it's a bit artificial and that might affect our kind of aesthetic experience. Daisy Dixon on restoring nature...
Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...intelligence tests despite such extensive surgery. In fact they wondered what the purpose of the corpus callosum was if you could cut through it with so little effect. However careful testing by Roger Sperry (1968) and colleagues did uncover behaviour that was far from normal. This work was to gain him a Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1981. Sperry et al, devised a number of...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
John Napier
Science, Maths & Technology

John Napier

...artificial number’ and later a ‘logarithm’ (a term which he coined from Greek words meaning something like ‘ratio-number’), with the property that from the sum of two such logarithms the result of multiplying the two original numbers could be recovered. In a sense this idea had been around for a long time. Since at least Greek times it had been known that...
Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?

...intelligence and black ops resources are used, not to defend the US, as we are told, but to support frequently shadowy and undeclared foreign engagements that are neither discussed nor sanctioned by Congress and, least of all, by the general public. The US now lags behind many other developed countries Civic organisations and institutions will continue to be starved of...
How do empires work?
History & The Arts

How do empires work?

...artificial waterway, the Grand Canal. British sea and waterborne forces now had the Chinese land-based empire by its throat. To understand why this was so, we need to understand how the Chinese empire worked; and to do this we need to look at empire as a ‘system of power’. In particular, we need to understand just how vital the Yangzi and Grand Canal were to its...
Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Watching the weather
Nature & Environment

Watching the weather

...artificial satellites has revolutionised the way in which the weather has been recorded over the last 50 years. For the first time, meteorologists have been able to routinely get a view of the whole atmosphere and of the weather systems that it contains...Watching the weather: 2.1 The view from space - Since the early days of space exploration, 'top-down' weather...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...intelligible involves the generation of narratives that can displace this functional silence, limit the productivity of the ‘invisibility’ of race. This narrative potential is radically under-developed in UK criminology (Phillips et al., 2019). What spaces and places are there for focusing on and discussing race in criminology, what special conferences are held, what...
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Money & Business

Internships and other work experiences

...intelligence - The Department for Education’s ‘Employer skills survey 2017’ (Winterbotham et al., 2018, p. 49) highlights key skills that are reported as lacking. At the top of their list are self-management skills, comprising ‘managing own time and task prioritisation’ and ‘managing own feelings/handling those of others’. The second part of that statement...