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Additive manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Additive manufacturing

...physical shape of the final component. The term external not only refers to the outward-facing surfaces but also to the internal surfaces. You can think of it as any boundary between material and air. A digital model can take a number of forms. It could be a professional engineering drawing of a component done with proprietary CAD software; it could be a model created...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...physical disorders, including dyspepsia, diabetes and liver complaints. It was also blamed by some practitioners for an apparent epidemic of nervous diseases, such as hysteria and neurasthenia. Symptoms of anxiety, depression, insomnia, pain, involuntary movements and nervous tics were believed to result from the strain of modern life on the nervous system. In Russia,...
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...physical objects can be made readable by computers through digitisation, understand the meaning of metadata and its importance for search engines, and reflect on doing research with born-digital data. When you think of doing research in the humanities, what comes to mind? Searching through documents in an archive, reading rare printed books in a library, studying works of...
Young children, the outdoors and nature Badge icon
Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...physical, psychological, social and emotional. Bento and Dias (2017), who are writing in the context of Portugal, suggest that the ‘open and constantly changing’ nature of the outdoors is rich with potential for learning and developing. In addition to the impact on children’s cognitive development, they outline other benefits to include: … being exposed to...
Heritage case studies: Scotland
History & The Arts

Heritage case studies: Scotland

...physical site, presents problems of its own. The second study examines the old and new towns of Edinburgh, its designation as a World Heritage Site and how Edinburgh is managed as a heritage site...Heritage case studies: Scotland: 2.1 Overview - Heritage sites have particular and significant roles in our personal and national identity. They operate as fundamental building...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...physics, we’re gonna need a really concerted effort – one that we don’t yet have – to move rapidly, rapidly, rapidly toward renewable energy and to keep fossil fuel in the ground. RH: It would be difficult to be optimistic about what’s happening in the States, though, wouldn’t it? You’ve had President Obama, who’s committed to this issue in his second term...
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...physical space, while the communication sense emphasizes the notion of concealing and invisibility. ‘Veil’ in the religious sense means seclusion from worldly life and sex (celibacy), as in the case of the life and vows of nuns. This Christian definition of the Western term ‘veil’ is not commonly recognized. Although evidence shows that the veil has existed for a...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
Science, Maths & Technology

Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

...physically large and highly expensive equipment of the 1950s to the omnipresent networks and computer-based devices upon which our digital lives are founded today. In this section I will: compare the development of the computer to the development of the telephone describe some of the digital technologies that form an integral part of many of our lives introduce the term...