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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...
Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more
History & The Arts

Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more

...physical men who were capable of enduring tough labour for long hours. Many roved the countryside looking for work and a better deal. They gained a reputation as troublesome outsiders, fond of drinking and living a life of ungodly debauchery. But who were they? Unreliable heathens and outcasts, or unsung heroes who used might and muscle to build canals and railways? The...
Is cleaning a route to a better life for migrants?
Society, Politics & Law

Is cleaning a route to a better life for migrants?

...physically demanding and insecure. Cleaners need to be efficient, flexible and able to change their routines whenever their company loses an old contract or wins a new one. In Finland, those immigrants whose residence permit is dependent on a specific minimum number of working hours often need to stay in cleaning jobs no matter what. For migrants like Kifibin, cleaning...