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Getting started on ancient Greek
History & The Arts

Getting started on ancient Greek

...law code from Crete and two boundary stones from Athens. Accompanying images will introduce you to Greek as it was actually written in the ancient world, which can differ in interesting respects from the standardised Greek familiar today. We hope you enjoy the course...Introduction: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: read the letters of...
Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
A short introduction to the English language
Languages

A short introduction to the English language

...law. The first King of England to speak English as his native language was Henry IV. Henry came to the throne in 1399, almost 1,000 years after the Anglo-Saxons arrived. But once English was established, it also began to spread, or more accurately, it began to be spread. The most important driver for this was colonialism. In lots of countries, English pushed out the local...
Introduction to Planetary Protection
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to Planetary Protection

...law instruments, the five treaties on outer space and other instruments have been developed and adopted by that intergovernmental body. And I would like to add that Coopers was founded in 1958 and today it has 102 states members. Video 6 Niklas Hedman explains COPUOUS. NARRATOR Space-- the final frontier, perhaps, but not a lawless frontier. So why do we need rules in...
Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...law is one source of coercive pressure, but so too is the knowledge that you will get promoted only if you act in ways which fit accepted ways of doing things in your organisation...Making decisions: 5.5.2 Mimetic pressures - Mimetic pressures come from the pressure to imitate what others do. The world is complicated and finding the optimal solution often difficult. One...
Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Meiosis and mitosis
Science, Maths & Technology

Meiosis and mitosis

...law of segregation. The breeding experiment in maize shows that characters due to dominant or recessive alleles, such as grain colour, show a particular pattern of inheritance from generation to generation: the F1 offspring all resemble one of the parents (Figure 7), and the F2 offspring have the phenotypic ratio of 3 :1 and the genotypic ratio of 1: 2 :1 (Figures 8 and...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...laws, its own traditions in a way, its own traditions of badness to some extent, because it was packed with really lurid cliche´s. But I became interested in the lurid cliche´s. Alex Garland I love genre. I like watching it and I like reading it and I like working within it. From the point of view of work, I think genre’s a kind of free gift. It gives you all sorts of...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...law in the pursuit of anonymity becomes a key political task of the present. As we note in our text (Rossiter and Zehle 2014a), it requires a collective work of invention to reroute – or as we put in that writing, to delink – our communicative relations from the capture of value by the infrastructural systems of lifestream logistics. Privacy, then, becomes one...
Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision

...law actually used to work with Professor Norman Myers, so he’s a well-known environmentalist, known for things like his work on biodiversity and his work on climate refugees, etc. So together they wrote the second edition of The Gaia Atlas, so I was kind of immersed in that world as well for about the last 10 years or so, having lovely debates with Norman about the...