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Language and Meaning: How We Learn
Languages

Language and Meaning: How We Learn

...world... Scarlett in the garden Two year old Scarlett uses and develops her language as she explores the under-life of the garden with her father. Intercultural communication difficulties In a Chinese University class, a teacher uses examples from signage around the world to illustrate linguistic misunderstandings in translations into English. Multimodal learning This...
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Why are the Paris attacks given greater attention than the ISIS killings in Beirut?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are the Paris attacks given greater attention than the ISIS killings in Beirut?

...world's media, Arab and refugee lives matter less than those of Europeans - and that contributes to a punishing cycle for us all...Events of this past weekend shook the core of the world as ISIS struck not just in Beirut, but Paris as well. These attacks follow an equally brutal show of terror in January 2015 when Charlie Hebdo’s offices were targeted because of...
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How happiness is challenging GDP as the measure of a country’s health
Society, Politics & Law

How happiness is challenging GDP as the measure of a country’s health

...World Happiness Report found Finland as the worlds happiest country which proves income does not necessarily lead to happiness says Professor Paul Anand...[Happy baby ] Happiness is contagious Finland reclaimed its place as the happiest country in the world, according to the annual World Happiness Report published in 2018 on research conducted between 2015 and 2017....
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What’s corruption got to do with climate change, and why should we care?
Nature & Environment

What’s corruption got to do with climate change, and why should we care?

...world from heating to the point it becomes uninhabitable for future generations?...Code Red for Humanity The extent of the challenge has been set out in the starkest of terms by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change1 (IPCC) in their August 2021 report. They state that there is no room for doubt that climate change is the result of human activity and that the...
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Literature and the Environment
Nature & Environment

Literature and the Environment

...world, about people on the other side of the globe. I thought about how little attention I pay to the natural world around me. I doubted that I’d notice any changes in my local river, but knew that I’d spot a new café opening next to it. When I first read about the changing course of the Dordogne in Montaigne’s essay, I went on a different mental journey. I thought...
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Introducing the philosophy of religion
History & The Arts

Introducing the philosophy of religion

...world, creator and ruler of the universe. religion System of belief in and worship of a supernatural power or God. As I say, these possible definitions are not beyond challenge just because they might appear in a dictionary. As it happens, I made them up, just to give two starting-points for our discussion. So perhaps they can be improved upon...Introducing the philosophy...
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Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision

...World About Us, Sunday nights, you know, it is now called The Natural World, that was a real eye opener for me. I used to sit with my parents, I was in front of the fire, like a dog, watching the world through this little box in the corner of the living room in the early seventies, just thinking, ‘That’s absolutely amazing.’ The fascination of nature, the beauty of...
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Hidden Maths
Science, Maths & Technology

Hidden Maths

...world of Mathematics and Statistics with our FREE learning content. ...Find out more about The Open University's Mathematics courses. It’s impossible to address today’s world without encountering Maths and Stats at every step, and yet for many of us it’s a subject that we attempt to avoid at all costs. Browse through our FREE online courses and interactive games to...
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