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Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink

...attention to the intonation. Haz una lista y habla...Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink: Actividad 3 - In this activity you will learn how to pronounce the sounds /p/, /t/ and /k/ correctly in Spanish. A Listen to the following audio track and repeat the following words. Escucha y repite. Listen and repeat, pronouncing each word carefully. pescado, carne, cordero,...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...attention and remain in our memory for a long time. This all suggests that there is an immediacy about single images – as opposed to passages of film or TV – that helps them stick in the mind. This is undoubtedly part of the psychological processes of perception and cognition. In the psychological sub-field known as ‘perception’, the study of how we comprehend...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...attention on key interfaces within the organisation, as well as on interfaces between the organisation and its external customers and suppliers. Most operations systems are part of a supply chain that involves materials, information and customers, and the distribution of finished goods or services to customers or clients. It is therefore the responsibility of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
How can Facebook decide who you really are?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Facebook decide who you really are?

...attention and do something about it. There are, of course, scenarios in which the use of one's legal name does increase accountability. Facebook has many reasons to stick with this policy, and this is one of them. But more than this, I believe the real name policy is about business. It would be unfeasible, with Facebook's terrifyingly large user base, for the company to...
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Article 5 mins
Five missing kings and queens – and where we might find them
History & The Arts

Five missing kings and queens – and where we might find them

...attention – and that might help add just a little bit of diversity, too. 1. Oswald of Northumbria (d. 642) Oswald was a warlike leader of the northern kingdom of Northumbria, but adopted Christianity with all the zeal of the convert that he was. He so impressed the Irish missionary Aidan by his acts of charity that the latter seized his arm and exclaimed: “May this...
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Article 10 mins
Does maths offer a better model for multi-candidate elections?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does maths offer a better model for multi-candidate elections?

...attention to Condorcet’s writings about voting.) Condorcet suggested that, if an absolute majority – more than half the voters – prefers Candidate X to Candidate Y, then Candidate Y should not be the winner. That seems very reasonable. Why not make the majority happier by making X the winner? Unfortunately, when there are more than two candidates, this principle can...
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Article 5 mins
Football culture: the use of banners
Health, Sports & Psychology

Football culture: the use of banners

...attention has been paid to the role of banners in an area where they play an equally significant role in reflecting how we communicate and signal kinship or opposition - football fan culture [David Hockney's banner to support smokers rights, reading 'The Unrepentant Smokers'] David Hockney's banner supporting smokers' rights Banners of all types are often created or...
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Article 10 mins
Riches & misery: the consequences of the Atlantic slave trade
History & The Arts

Riches & misery: the consequences of the Atlantic slave trade

...attention to the contribution of the slave trade, although there are exceptions. Readers are left asking themselves: is there any way of reconciling such approaches? At the centre of the debate is the economic transformation of Britain. During the eighteenth century, Britain became the first country in the world to “industrialise”, in terms of an unprecedented...
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Article 10 mins