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Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy
History & The Arts

Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy

...concepts overlap with imagination and where they diverge...What is imagination and can philosophy define it in any meaningful way? This free course, Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy, will introduce you to some of the possible answers to these questions and will examine why philosophy has sometimes found it difficult to approach imagination. It will then go...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish
Languages

Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish

...de acuerdo or vale la pena are chunks. A word of caution though, chunks tend to be said quickly. Estoydacuero or toydacuerdo. Try familiarising yourself with words that appear often in a given context. Looking at the starters on the menu, for instance, will help you quickly break down de primero la sopa a la ensalada into separate words. Remember, when you're interacting...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Academic Skills - Key words in essay titles
Education & Development

Academic Skills - Key words in essay titles

...concept or statement in order to consider all the factors it consists of. Answers of this type should be very methodical and logically organised. Compare Requires an answer that sets items side by side and shows their similarities and differences. A balanced (fair, objective) answer is expected. Consider Requires an answer in which the students describe and give their...
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Activity 5 mins
The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy
History & The Arts

The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy

...concepts of the body to which that medicine was applied, the destiny of the soul (should the medicine not work), the priorities of the society from which the funds for the treatment were forthcoming (or extracted). But the people who documented the work at the Florentine hospital of Santa Maria Nuova were not writing for us, a curious posterity; we can delight in the...
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Article 10 mins
Honour thy vulnerable witnesses
Health, Sports & Psychology

Honour thy vulnerable witnesses

...concept of an impartial witness, who is clear that the perpetrator may not be present in the identification parade, who feels under no pressure to select someone and, if they do select someone, does so because they recognise that person as the perpetrator. However, psychological research has revealed the risks of relying on such testimony and how careful the police must...
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Article 5 mins
Growing up with Disability
Health, Sports & Psychology

Growing up with Disability

...prompting provision and facilities for play as an intrinsic part od childhood experience and development. Community Planning Providing good quality, inclusive out-of-school care through co-oporation between volunatry and statutory bodies. Stirling PLUS An introduction to Plus, a voluntary organisation in Stirling helping disabled children have a normal social life PLUS -...
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Audio 1 hr 6 mins
Global responses to Darwin's ideas
Science, Maths & Technology

Global responses to Darwin's ideas

...prompted a lot of debate. The cultural context was key to its approval or rejection. Darwinism and politics Darwin's theories were particularly subject to political interpretation: some rejected them as subversive of the moral order, others hailed Darwin as a revolutionary hero. Darwin Online The Darwin Online project is already bringing his life's work to a much larger...
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Audio 25 mins
Review: Europe Reset
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Europe Reset

...de facto terms, undercutting national accountability. The author dismisses the traditional measures suggested to address this problem. For instance, empowering the European Parliament will not work, he argues, because it is divided along simplistic pro- and anti-integration lines, and lacks legitimacy with citizens. Indeed, he accurately points out that the EU already has...
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Article 5 mins