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Dancing to the rhythm of cultures
Languages

Dancing to the rhythm of cultures

...simple choreographed movement to the sound of their own singing and playing of rattles (sonajas). A century later the number was increased to ten boys and by the end of the 17th century they were already playing the distinctive castanets. A version of this ceremony can also be seen in Cordoba and Guadix. Less well known are a variety of church dances in other Andalusian...
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Sharpening Your Critical Thinking
History & The Arts

Sharpening Your Critical Thinking

...simple strategy for overcoming confirmation bias. But practising intellectual empathy is an important step. Try to understand why people judge their arguments to be good arguments. And, even harder, try to understand why those same people might judge your arguments to be bad arguments. Understanding this is the first step to making progress. Nuance and Complexity A second...
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Religion and Violence
History & The Arts

Religion and Violence

...simple link between religion and violence. Transcript Testing the role of religion in violence You’ll now explore the issues further, thinking in particular about how the balanced ‘middle way’ I propose in the video can be purused. The following six considerations are ones to bear in mind when looking at the role of religion in any particular situation. 1. Recognise...
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How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?
Nature & Environment

How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?

...simple linear models. Organisations might be tempted to consider digital carbon footprints inconsequential when compared to other parts of their business but given the points above and the continual digital transformation of entire industries, this would be a miscalculation. The opportunity presented by understanding and acting on our corporate digital footprints is...
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Stefan Szymanski on the business of football
Money & Business

Stefan Szymanski on the business of football

...simple comparisons. The first (Figure 1) relates the average league position of teams appearing in the top two English divisions over a decade to their average wage spending, expressed in proportion to the average wage spending of all clubs. The figure shows that wage spending is highly correlated with league position over time. The ‘R2’ is a statistic which measures...
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Internet of everything
Digital & Computing

Internet of everything

...simple one. How can it benefit humanity? How we answer that question will determine how successful we are in this next chapter in the evolution of the internet. Learn more about the IoE at Cisco’s IoE website...Session 1: What is the IoE?: 1.3 Globally connected - The reality is that we are all globally connected. For many of us, our friends on social media no longer...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...simple, to think about how sensitive the earth’s climate is to CO2, and it uses the warming of the past 150 years or so to try to understand how sensitive things are, but it’s quite a difficult problem because lots of things are changing, not just CO2. And there’s also a time lag in the response of the planet and you have to account for all these factors. And what...
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General principles of cellular communication
Science, Maths & Technology

General principles of cellular communication

...simple proportional relationship to bacterial population density. Rather, the release of autoinducer substantially increases at a critical population level (dashed vertical line in Figure 3). This surge in autoinducer release underlies the coordinated change from planktonic to group behaviour. Cellular signalling systems often show rapid changes in activity beyond a...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs