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Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre
Science, Maths & Technology

Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre

...architecture, including the floor of the department of mathematics at Oxford University and at San Francisco’s transit centre. Aperiodic tiles are also used in the study of material with naturally aperiodic structure, known as quasicrystals. Quasicrystals have unique material properties and applications are being investigated. But since the discovery of Penrose’s two...
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What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...architectural heritage, was formed as a direct result of the public reaction to the exhibition The Destruction of the Country House held at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) of decorative arts and design in 1974. However, it is not really enough to say that it was formed in response to ‘public’ outcry – we need to think about who this public is. In this case, it...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The database development life cycle
Science, Maths & Technology

The database development life cycle

...architecture as a basis for distinguishing the activities associated with a schema. We can represent the constraints to enforce the semantics of the data once, within a database, rather than within every user process that uses the data. Using these assumptions, Figure 5 represents a model of the activities and their outputs for database development. It is applicable to...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
The problem with crime
Society, Politics & Law

The problem with crime

...architectural elegance. William and Dorothy Wordsworth visited it in 1803 and observed:- MICHAEL PERCEY AL-MAXWELL (source: WIiiiam and Dorothy Wordsworth, out of copyright: Duration: 19 '7 "The Trongate, an old street, is very picturesque - high houses, with an intennixture of gable fronts towards the street. The New Town is built of fine stone, in the best style of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes

...architecture is much less grandiose than the political, utopian commitments to civic transparency, community development and social inclusion that signified the brutalist project originally. Brutalism was meant to convey memorability of image, expression of structure and honesty to materials. That did not stop it from becoming code for ‘1960s ugly’ as water stains...
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Video 25 mins
The Rise of Museums
History & The Arts

The Rise of Museums

...architecture, part cathedral, part stately home, and their neat displays of objects organised along taxonomic and/or evolutionary principles. When did the idea arise that museums and their exhibitions could be viewed as technologies themselves for self-improvement and a means for promoting an orderly understanding of the natural world? The answer lies in the 18th and 19th...
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Article 10 mins
Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology
Society, Politics & Law

Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology

...architecture’. But it may be that both further contribute to peoples distrust and doubt about the government’s role in promoting better public health. A more extended version of this article can be found in a forthcoming book ‘Pathological Lives: Disease, Space and Biopolitics’ due to be published in 2016 (Wiley/Royal Geographical Society Book Series: London, with...
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Article 15 mins
Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Education & Development

Reparations for slavery in Barbados

...architectural museum. Abolition The slave trade was abolished in 1807 (Slave Trade Act 1807). The practice of slavery continued until 1834, abolished by the Emancipation Act 1833. The Act compensated slave owners for their loss of property and implemented an apprenticeship scheme which required ex-slaves to continue working and living on plantations for low wages, under...
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