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Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess

...de Hooch very clearly demonstrate a belief in cleanliness being next to godliness because you've seen there's a picture in one painting - a woman sweeping the floor while another's feeding the baby and the shadow of a cross is silhouetted on the wonderful clean floor. But tell me about this association which is going here between cleanliness and godliness. Adam Kuper:...
Is science fiction a field in its own right?
History & The Arts

Is science fiction a field in its own right?

...de Siècle Magazines.” Science and Literature: The Great Divide?, special issue of MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, vol. 7, 2013, pp. 33–40. Tippett, Benjamin K., and David Tsang. “Traversable Achronal Retrograde Domains In Spacetime.” arXiv preprint, 4 Nov. 2013, arxiv.org/abs/1310.7985. Willis, Martin. Literature and Science: Readers’ Guides to Essential...
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...Parkinson’s drug amantadine. Laureys’s team in Liège finds that about half of patients in a minimally conscious state show mild improvement in awareness as a result of receiving the drug. The awareness network can be electrically roused. Laureys and his colleagues recently tested transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS), in which scalp electrodes are used to...
Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...De Castella and McGarty, 2011; Every and Augoustinos, 2007; Kurz, Augoustinos, and Crabb, 2010; Tileagă, 2009), and also how these issues are understood by ‘lay’ people in everyday life (e.g. Figgou and Condor, 2007; Gibson and Hamilton, 2011; Andreouli, Greenland and Howarth, 2016). These approaches invite you to think critically about the political: to examine and...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...de Bondt, 1998). Even within the field of financial economics, there is increasing interest in developing theories of market behaviour which take better account of how people really make decisions (e.g. see Fenton-O'Creevy et al., 2004). One of the leading exponents of this emerging field of behavioural finance, Werner de Bondt, suggests that: For at least forty years...
Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...de Bernie`res. Tim Pears My first book was written from the point of view of a 13-year-old girl, and I never felt when I was writing it that I had to make some kind of special effort, you know, to get into the mind of a female, or a young person, whatever. I think I just thought how I would think about things, and with a little bit of sympathy, empathy towards somebody...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...de Zeeuw [A face comprising a merger of a photo of a woman and a cartoon of a man] The interview Pirate practices often involve theft and property violations without clearcut ideological motives, as is the case with most torrent trackers. For this reason they are often dubbed apolitical, in a pejorative, delegitimizing sense, namely as ‘merely’ criminal, directed...
Looking at, describing and identifying objects
History & The Arts

Looking at, describing and identifying objects

...de Waal, combines family history to create a fascinating biography of a collection of netsuke. De Waal, E. (2010) The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance, London, Vintage. Okada, B.T. (1980) 'Netsuke: the small sculptures of Japan', The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 2–48 [Online]. Available at http://www.jstor.org/ stable/...