2,077 search results
Could Islamic law be the key to defeating ISIS?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Islamic law be the key to defeating ISIS?

...base, the product of an intergenerational consensus of the scholars and leaders of each community. Islamic belief and practice is fundamentally individual and voluntary in its nature. A Muslim cannot be accountable for the views and actions of others. One positive consequence of this absence of any one religious authority is the fact that it is possible to contest and...
View article Could Islamic law be the key to defeating ISIS?
Article 10 mins
Herbal medicine
Health, Sports & Psychology

Herbal medicine

...based on chemicals found in meadowsweet and willow bark, were isolated and then synthesised artificially. More recently we have discovered that the effect of isolating a medicinal compound from its parent plant may increase the number of side effects associated with that drug. The substances in plants that chemists wanted to eliminate from medicines can turn out to have a...
View article Herbal medicine
Article 10 mins
Should we read John Locke today?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...based on experience (later called ‘Empiricism’), Locke was also a significant political thinker, setting out some of the core arguments for what we would now call liberalism. As Locke saw it, politics should begin not with unrestricted obedience to a ruler or religious power, but with the rights of the citizen. This was a radical challenge in a time in which it was...
View article Should we read John Locke today?
Article 10 mins
Can the Economy be Irish?
Money & Business

Can the Economy be Irish?

...de-globalising project. ...[Scrabble words spelling out the word 'Brexit'] Image credit: Speedpropertybuyers The Irish are great storytellers, illuminated through the centuries by Beckett, Yeats, O’Brien, Shaw, Wilde, Binchy, Enright and Joyce to name a few. The great English lexicographer, Samuel Johnson, said that narrative is the superior form of knowledge, whilst...
View article Can the Economy be Irish?
Article 10 mins
The interplay of language and culture in times of crisis: COVID-19 and beyond
Languages

The interplay of language and culture in times of crisis: COVID-19 and beyond

...La Palma, Spain, erupting in 2021]Cumbre Vieja erupting in 2021During the eruption of Cumbre Vieja (a volcano on the Spanish Island of La Palma) in 2021 and its aftermath, the public were given a crash course on scientific terminology. However, a more colloquial word from the Canary Islands proved to be the favourite: ‘fajana’, generally meaning flat terrain at the...
View article The interplay of language and culture in times of crisis: COVID-19 and beyond
Article 5 mins
Why challenging sexual violence takes more than just a starring role at The Oscars
Society, Politics & Law

Why challenging sexual violence takes more than just a starring role at The Oscars

...de Mille award at the 2018 Golden Globes, Oprah Winfrey claimed that “speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we all have”. She then shared the story of Recy Taylor, who died ten days earlier. Recy Taylor was a black woman who was raped in Alabama by six white men in 1944. The case drew national attention as a key moment of injustice for black women as two...
View article Why challenging sexual violence takes more than just a starring role at The Oscars
Article 5 mins
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...DES Data Encryption Standard PSTN public switched telephone DMZ demilitarised zone network DNS domain name system RC2 Rivest cipher 2 DSS Digital Signature Standard RC4 Rivest cipher 4 FTP file transfer protocol RSA Rivest, Shamir and IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Adleman block cipher Authority S-HTTP secure hypertext transfer ICMP internet control message protocol...
View course Network security
Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...la force / Vivre libre ou mourir / Il n’y a de véritable liberté qu’avec la religion, les loix … constitution’ (’Unity is strength / Live free or die / There is no true liberty without religion, laws … constitution’). Discussion This painting seeks to immortalise the union of Black and mixed-race slaves that allowed Haiti to defeat the French Republic and...
View course Historical perspectives on race
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs