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Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...paradox’. This behaviour isn’t confined to light. What about matter? What is matter? Well, all the objects we see about us are made up of atoms. And atoms are made up of a nucleus surrounded by electrons. The nucleus is made up of neutrons and protons. So it seems pretty clear that we’re dealing with particles. Take a beam of electrons, like the ones you get in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Two concepts of freedom
History & The Arts

Two concepts of freedom

...paradox has been often exposed. It is one thing to say that I know what 55 is good for X, while he himself does not; and even to ignore his wishes for its – and his – sake; and a very different one to say that he has eo ipso chosen it, not indeed consciously, not as he seems in everyday life, but in his role as a rational self which his empirical self may not know –...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
School business manager: Developing the role
Education & Development

School business manager: Developing the role

...paradoxes of success that the things and the ways which got you where you are, are seldom the things to keep you there. If you think that they are, and that you know the way to the future because it is a continuation of where you've come from, you may well end up in Davy's Bar, with nothing left but a chance to drown your sorrows and reminisce about times past. Charles...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Icarus: entering the world of myth
History & The Arts

Icarus: entering the world of myth

...paradoxically (but logically given the manner of the boy’s death) a horror of heights and nests close to the ground. The partridge rejoices at Icarus’ death and Daedalus’ grief. Ovid closes the narrative with an aetiological myth, explaining why the partridge behaves as it does – possibly Perdix is supposed to be the ‘first’ partridge. (Aetia is the Greek for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?

...paradoxically, it is this milder character that has enabled it to spread so far and affect such huge numbers of people. Most carriers survive long enough to pass the gene on to their children, and some never develop cancer at all. The A C Camargo Cancer Center is in a run-down neighbourhood of São Paulo, with narrow streets, small shops and open-fronted diners. In its...
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Article 10 mins
The Seasons in Art
History & The Arts

The Seasons in Art

...paradox is that the harshest season of the year produced some particularly spectacular images – none more so than the sixteenth-century Netherlandish painter Pieter Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow, which shows three men trudging home after a hunting trip – their hunched poses and the drooping heads of their dogs show how cold and tired they all are. They are not the...
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Video 15 mins
Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...Paradoxically, the doctor had continually to reassure both parties that this patient, who actually lasted six weeks, would soon die; that is, to try to change their expectations back to ‘certain to die on time’. (Glaser and Strauss, 1965, p. 24) This can have repercussions on several practical levels. When death is so unpredictable and there is a high premium on being...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...paradox … members of the top groups either acknowledged both sides of the paradox or viewed the situation as being very democratic. One second fiddle said, 'He does dominate; he's an extrovert anyway. He likes central attention. And obviously that's very good for a first fiddle.' A little later in the same interview he said, 'We're fairly equal as far as decisions.' A...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs