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John Napier
Science, Maths & Technology

John Napier

...English. Assuming the contents are likewise in these two languages (which they are, in fact), we might begin to conjecture from this that Napier had different readers in mind. Given the substantial vernacular textbook tradition by this time (seventy or so years after the first appearance of Record’s works), we may infer that Napier was not aiming at the homegrown...
Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Beginners’ French: A trip to Avignon
Languages

Beginners’ French: A trip to Avignon

...English. ll est irlandais. He's Irish. ll and elle are not only used to replace the name of a man or a woman, but also masculine and feminine nouns. Le musée? IL est juste là, à droite. The museum is just there, on the right. La mairie? Elle est au bout de la rue. The town hall? It's at the end of the street. On est, nous sommes In Extract 39, you also came across two...
Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture
History & The Arts

Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture

...ENGLISH SPEECH] KELVIN BIZAHALONI: In Arizona, I am a sheepherder, a wood chopper, a hiker, and a lover of plants. But outside, I am a musician, an artist, an Indigenous person. And now I'm a world traveller. GABRIELLE HUGHES: I've lived in the UK now for four years. And it's very interesting coming from my nation in Canada to sort of the heart of the empire. I think it's...
Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...English, her third language after Mongolian and Russian. I feel some pity for the students because the class lasts over three hours, and it is well past the halfway point before Odontuya remembers to give them a short break. Slackers at the back, I note, have no escape. “Why don’t you have any questions?” she demands of a young man who thought he had managed to...
An introduction to data and information in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to data and information in health and social care

...English. In contrast, information involves linking together two or more items of data to provide an item of knowledge. If someone suddenly said to you, ‘38 °C’, you’d be a bit puzzled. However, being told, ‘The patient’s temperature is 38 °C’, would convey information. In other words, information can be thought of as the answer to a question such as: ‘What...
Harper Lee's life was as surprising as any work of fiction
History & The Arts

Harper Lee's life was as surprising as any work of fiction

...English literature as a school and college student. Moving to New York in 1949, she worked in various jobs and spent her spare time writing several long short stories, none of which were published. The turning point in her early life came when Lee developed what had begun as a string of short stories into a novel that was eventually published in 1960 as To Kill a...
Rugby: A game of risk and reward
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rugby: A game of risk and reward

...English school boy, George Robinson (aged 17) suffered a transection of his spinal cord whilst playing rugby for his school in Cape Town. George underwent surgery in South Africa and when safe to be moved was flown home in September and is still undergoing extensive rehabilitation. At present George’s movement below the neck is limited to his right bicep and minimal...
From the Sumerians to Shakespeare to Twain: why fart jokes never get old
History & The Arts

From the Sumerians to Shakespeare to Twain: why fart jokes never get old

...English at the Request and for the Use of the Lady Damp-Fart, of Her-fart-shire” by “Obadiah Fizzle, Groom of the Stool to the Princess of Arse-Mini in Sardinia.” And an opening poetic ode refers to the flatus as “Cure of cholick, cure of gripes, tuneful drone of lower pipes.” Swift then goes on to subject the fart to a detailed analysis – carefully describing...