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Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
History & The Arts

Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks

...des sçavans, together with extracts of his letter to Chapelain. I say almost verbatim, because at several points in the narrative phrases have been inserted: ‘having there adjusted his Watches’, ‘having a great confidence in the said Watches’. The same account translated into Dutch eventually featured as the unique account of a sea-trial of pendulum clocks to be...
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Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list

...de Janeiro, world-champion athletes and sport commentators — who also happen to be women — have faced offensive slights about everything from their choice of summer dress, to the gold-medal "catfights." Credit for their accomplishments has also been thrown to the men in their lives, too. (Yes, for real.) On Sunday, The Chicago Tribune identified U.S. medallist Corey...
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Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity

...des Plantes, Levrault, Schell & Co., Paris. Kohn, D.D. and Walsh, D.M. 1994. Plant species richness – the effect of island size and habitat diversity. Journal of Ecology, 82, 367–377. Linder, H.P. 2005. The evolution of diversity: the Cape flora. Trends in Plant Science, 10, 537–542. MacArthur, R.H. and Wilson, E.O. 1967. The Theory of Island Biogeography. Princeton...
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An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Education & Development

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

...de rigueur for all official business, with words like judge, jury, evidence, and justice coming in and giving John Grisham’s career a kick start. Latin was still used ad nauseum in church, but the common man spoke English, able to communicate only by speaking more slowly and loudly until the others understood him. Words like ‘cow’, ‘sheep’ and ‘swine’ come...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Young people and religion: creative learning with history
History & The Arts

Young people and religion: creative learning with history

...de la Alhambra. Now we go to a place where we can see the Alhambra. And we are going to record the part of the Alhambra. MARYAM: Y aquí estamos en el Reino Nazarí de Granada, es decir, Alhambra. Esta fue la última ciudad en la que estuvieron los moriscos, conviviendo con otras religiones. And here we are in the Nasrid kingdom of Granada, that is, the Alhambra. This was...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The social nature of being human
Society, Politics & Law

The social nature of being human

...de corps or some sense of relational intimacy. You don't know them as individuals, but there, there is definitely a sense of a shared identity. So in that sense, I think you can talk about a change in how you conceptualise yourself. ...The social nature of being human: 2 Groups and politics - [Described image] Figure 3 (Not) on his own In this course, you will examine...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
An introduction to crime and criminology
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to crime and criminology

...de Haan and Loader, 2002; Karstedt et al., 2011; Drake & Harvey, 2014). Crime, harm and victimisation are all issues that can draw out painful or angry responses, and sometimes these responses are amplified through the media and the stories that you hear about crime. These passions will help to stimulate your criminological imagination, but they can also, sometimes, get...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...de facto because it's so important with everything that happens to do with the climate. TS: Absolutely, but I would not call myself an expert on this. RH: There are a lot of people, you probably don't come across many of them, but there are still a lot of people in the world particularly in the USA, some in the UK, who think that climate change is all natural. How are you...
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