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The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 2: Examining the Byzantine icon: Introduction - Having established what an icon is, its environment and its function, this week will explore the relationship between Byzantine iconography of a sacred event and Gospel narrative. It is important to note that this...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list
Society, Politics & Law

A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list

...Education.” “Every patriot is severe with strangers,” Rousseau wrote. “They are nothing in his eyes.” Trump, in his tussle with Megyn Kelly of Fox News, and with womankind in general, might also draw comfort from Rousseau’s view of “woman” as “specially made to please man,” who “must make herself agreeable to man rather than provoke him.” Many such...
Five ways you can tell if your child is ‘normal’
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways you can tell if your child is ‘normal’

...education and more. As adults we can focus more on what we are good at (or enjoy), and we can fairly easily accept that most of us will never be an Olympian or the next Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry. However, children are expected to do a wide range of things, and can find ‘failure’ really hard, at school and outside of school. Your child may have terrible ‘ball...
Should we read John Locke today?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...educator and political writer. Over the course of an eventful life he lived through the English Civil Wars, the violent overthrows of two kings (Charles I and James II) and the rapid expansion of English colonialism and slave-trading across the Atlantic. As well as producing the foundations of a new philosophical approach to knowledge based on experience (later called...
A brief history of Harlem
Society, Politics & Law

A brief history of Harlem

...education and employment issues. [Harlem riots 1964] Harlem riots, 1964 The frustrations often found more violent outlets, too. In 1935 a (false) rumour that the police had killed a shoplifter sparked a riot which saw 600 stores looted and left three dead; in 1943, the shooting of a black soldier by a policeman caused a second outbreak of rioting - this time claiming six...
Richard Brock - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Richard Brock - Earth in Vision

...opening sequence is one minute, you relate to that, because that’s what you do, but the opening minute is tracking through pipes which turn into the throat of a baby fulmar and that’s going to kill it and indeed, it’s going to kill the adult. So then you start looking at what happened to this, it’s a detective story, why have these birds come up and then gone...
Why is the media still fascinated by Brady and Hindley's crimes?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is the media still fascinated by Brady and Hindley's crimes?

...open after Brady’s death as the body of Bennett is still missing. Brady never showed any remorse for his crimes. Winnie Johnson, Bennett’s mother, spent the rest of her life attempting to find her son’s body. She wrote to Brady asking him for information. At various times, Brady hinted that he would reveal the whereabouts of his missing victim, using this...
A moment of zen: Jon Stewart leaves The Daily Show
History & The Arts

A moment of zen: Jon Stewart leaves The Daily Show

...opened his final episode of The Daily Show with “full-team coverage” of Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate, featuring current and returning Daily Show correspondents from throughout Stewart’s tenure, including Stephen Colbert. [Jon Stewart interviews Barack Obama] Jon Stewart conducts one last interview with Barack Obama Before spontaneous and...