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Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view
History & The Arts

Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view

...simple case of cause and effect, with the balloon coming first, nor did both devices emerge from the same set of circumstances, for example, the balloon’s uptake depended on the availability of hydrogen that had only just been successfully combined. But the panorama undoubtedly schooled its visitors in a mode of viewing that was compatible with ballooning. And though...
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Happy birthday Shakespeare!
History & The Arts

Happy birthday Shakespeare!

...simple title ‘Shakespeare’s Sonnets’. Inside, accompanied by no introductions or explanations, were 154 powerful love poems: 126 to an unidentified young man and 28 to a woman, the notorious ‘dark lady’. For whom were these poems written? What relationship do they have to Shakespeare’s life? The biographical mystery behind the sonnets is fascinating, but the...
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Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...simple things, like pain. When we’re making decisions about euthanasia: Is an animal unhappy? We have to make lots of questions about how they’re behaving. And we make subjective judgements on how they behave and whether they are happy, and whether quality of life is adequate. BIANCA I definitely think that my cat experiences joy and happy emotions. It could be any...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...simple answer is that a repeated phrase provides a pattern. In the examples quoted above, three separate characters use the same words, so that might suggest a connection between them. You could come back to this question again later when you have more information, but the idea of pattern and of connection is key to Woolf’s thoughts and beliefs. In her essay ‘Sketch...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...simple division of a manager’s job into these separate elements remains a powerful idea, although now we would refer to ‘commanding’ as leading...Managing and managing people: 2 What is managerial effectiveness? - There are no absolute measures of managerial effectiveness. Organisations have aims and objectives, and managers are effective when they help their...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Recording music and sound
History & The Arts

Recording music and sound

...simple. A recording device is placed in front of a musician, a few takes are recorded, any editing that is necessary is quickly done on the computer and the resulting piece of music is available for immediate distribution on the web. All this can be accomplished in the room of someone’s house and in some instances the presence of a live musician is not even needed. But...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...simple picture in Figure 4 substantially. A better representation is shown in Figure 7. Now most of the longwave radiation from the surface is effectively 'trapped' and recycled by the atmosphere, being repeatedly absorbed and re-emitted in all directions by the greenhouse gases. This warms the atmosphere. Some of the re-emitted radiation ultimately goes out to space,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...code associated with a particular profession, or to the slaughter of animals for food in a certain manner), it is held that a form of injustice important to group members would occur. The hard cases arise when the claims of the group (for example, to educate its children in a particular language) conflict with the freely chosen claims of some of its individual members....
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs