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Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism

...multiple levels, is equally equivocal about colonial rule in the relationship between the blustering colonial Major Bagstock and his nameless African servant. In the latter’s silence and lack of identity, and in the major’s corresponding bullying tendency to speak for his employee, Dickens sounds a profound note of doubt about the British colonial project. Ultimately,...
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A polyglot life
Languages

A polyglot life

...multiple languages. For my studies and with jobs following that time, I started travelling around to different places. Meanwhile, the Internet was a place that changed, evolved and grew during that time. I would dip back into the online world that offered me my languages at the press of a button now and then too. "I was no longer the only one, or the rare beast at the...
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Medicines and personalisation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Medicines and personalisation

...multiple long-term health conditions, which we call multimorbidity, and using multiple medications, which we call polypharmacy. This combination of ageing, multimorbidity and polypharmacy inevitably comes with some risks – these are explored in a previous article in this series, Pharmacotherapy while ageing. You can also access the full talk by Jitka & Sonal here. In...
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Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...multiplication and division the concept of place value can be extended to decimals...Week 1: Teaching and learning: whole numbers and decimals: 1 How children develop number sense - [Set of numbers from 0 to 9] Figure 2 Set of numbers from 0 to 9 This section should help you appreciate that understanding how children develop number sense is helpful to understanding how...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
What is a password manager - and should I be using one?
Digital & Computing

What is a password manager - and should I be using one?

...multiple machines? Does it have a good reputation? Check that the password manager software has a good reputation by making sure that it has been evaluated by a reputable organisation. Don’t depend on anecdotal evidence. What are good password managers? Some examples of password manager applications are: LastPass is available for a range of operating systems, including...
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Europa’s icy shell
Science, Maths & Technology

Europa’s icy shell

...multiple surface flybys of Europa, Galileo and Juno revealed that the ice may also contain salt and even elements associated with the ingredients for life, such as carbon, sulfur, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen. These are likely to come from the ice interacting with the ocean below. Thanks to these missions and their discoveries, Europa is now a prime target for...
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Why was the Systems Thinking in Practice hub created?
Society, Politics & Law

Why was the Systems Thinking in Practice hub created?

...multiple perspectives, examining boundary judgements and modelling interconnections. Systems thinking in practice itself has a long history and has developed from many different disciplinary traditions and used many different techniques and approaches, but all based on viewing complex situations as systems. It is increasingly recognised as being an important skill. For...
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Living with MS: Not just surviving but thriving (with a little canine care)
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living with MS: Not just surviving but thriving (with a little canine care)

...Multiple Sclerosis (MS), you may have seen recent media stories about advances in the use of drugs to treat this complex and unpredictable neurological condition. I have read many such stories over the last 15 years since being diagnosed. Often these have been sent to me by well-meaning friends or family desperate to let me know there is hope, the possibility of a cure, a...
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