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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France

...English In most French families, buying bread is a daily task. The French traditional baguette is much nicer eaten fresh, sometimes when it's still warm, which is why most French people visit their local bakery at least once a day. The baguette is still the most popular form of bread, but several others are available. There are several white bread varieties, distinguished...
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Oliver Sacks: "You are in the hands of a master storyteller"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "You are in the hands of a master storyteller"

...everyday writer should not write like this: you need to get right to the point. But I like how Oliver Sacks starts in a matter-of-fact way. If you say that you cannot write in an interesting and straightforward way about your technical field, ask yourself how a neurologist writing about the intricacies of the brain became a bestselling author. He did it because he clearly...
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Witnessing war through a smartphone lens
Society, Politics & Law

Witnessing war through a smartphone lens

...everyday realities of war can engage us emotionally in ways that news images do not. But equally, when recordings of war crimes or abuse or torture in the smartphones of Syrian refugees get into the hands of hostile forces, they can mean danger and even death. Similarly, maps and geolocation apps help refugees navigate dangerous journeys to safety, but they also create...
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Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments
Education & Development

Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments

...everyday communication but what concerns do they raise among language teachers when they’re used in assessments? This article examines the issues involved...This content is associated with The Open University's Language courses and qualifications. ‘So how can we create assessment tasks for language learners in times of digital machine translation tools…’ Karina...
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Can computers be therapists?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can computers be therapists?

...everyday life, together with a gap in clinical services, has led to “the rise of e-therapies” (Stasiak et al., 2015, p. 2), such that computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (a type of computerised/e-therapy) has been recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) for adults with mild to moderate depression (NICE, 2009). A number of...
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What is Indigenous Psychology?
Education & Development

What is Indigenous Psychology?

...everyday life, for example, adherence to the local customs and celebration of localised practices. The ongoing local knowledge accumulation, and generating new localised knowledge, may help to develop a sustained indigenous psychology (Shams, 2005). Why is indigenous psychology important? Indigenous psychology is influenced by ecopsychology. Ecopsychology aims to find out...
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Ethics Bites
History & The Arts

Ethics Bites

...everyday dilemmas about how we should live. Many eminent academics have participated in this fourteen-part series such as a star trio of American-based professors, Michael Sandel, Thomas Scanlon and Peter Singer... Ethics Bites A short introduction to this album Free Speech It’s not just what you say, it’s why you say it and why your audience is listening. Tim Scanlon...
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An introduction to crime and criminology
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to crime and criminology

...everyday sort of crime. The course goes on to consider how social scientists and criminologists, in particular, study and seek to understand problems of crime. The course invites you to develop what can be called your 'criminological imagination'. This, in part, involves viewing criminological issues or problems from multiple perspectives but also encourages you to...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs