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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...
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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...
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Article 5 mins
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...
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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...
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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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Video 30 mins
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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...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The mother of the American Athens
History & The Arts

The mother of the American Athens

...intelligent and agreeable. The other gentleman, tall, dark, of urbane stateliness, was something more, in the touch of Oriental suavity which, more than his nose, betrayed him; and it appeared, in delightful suggestion of the old-time commercial intimacy of the Dutch and English coasts, that he was from Holland, and next morning at breakfast he developed a large valise,...
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Article 5 mins
School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...intelligently to disputes, controversies and arguments about issues. Subjects like geography develop approaches to ‘disciplined enquiry’ that use a small number of very important concepts. When these are used and grown, using real data and examples, they do not ‘tell’ pupils what to think, but help them to think about matters that are truly complex. A letter...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs