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Helen Cammock and the art of storytelling
Languages

Helen Cammock and the art of storytelling

...world into clear-cut struggles between good and evil, right and wrong, us and them. Over the last decade, this idea somehow began to get picked up as much by the political right as those on the left. In the late 2010s, it became a mantra for populist agitators, with the Alt-Right commentator Mike Cernovich once explaining to an interviewer, ‘Look, I read postmodernist...
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The psychology of conspiracy theories
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of conspiracy theories

...world. Overall, this quest for the psychological profile of conspiracy theorists has yielded modest results. Conspiracy theorists have been shown to be quite similar to sceptics in terms of cognitive functioning or personality. In fact, the only consistent finding is that believers tend to be disenchanted with authority and cynical about the mainstream of politics. But...
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On the death of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Society, Politics & Law

On the death of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

...world war, the movement for black freedom waxed and waned but as clash followed clash, the ANC emerged as the leader of a mass liberation movement in the 1950s. The ANC Youth League which Mandela had joined in 1944 radicalised the organisation and advocated civil disobedience and mass action. When the ANC Freedom Charter which said that South Africa belonged to the...
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How does online intergroup contact compare with face-to-face?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How does online intergroup contact compare with face-to-face?

...world at large. A series of studies investigated this and concluded that while indeed negative contact existed and did increase prejudice, there was considerably more positive than negative contact, and so, overall, contact was beneficial. [A phone on a desk showing the Facebook logo.] Fifty years after The Nature of Prejudice was published, Facebook launched to everyone...
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Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...world...Sustainable Scotland is a free course that will appeal to anyone with an interest in a sustainable future in the context of contemporary Scottish society. It will give you a broad-based introduction to a number of different aspects of sustainability that impact on Scotland and the wider world....Sustainable Scotland: Introduction - This course takes you on a...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Fast Reactors and Thorium
Science, Maths & Technology

Fast Reactors and Thorium

...world’s first reactor was a small 25 kW (thermal power) research reactor, which was built in 1946 at Los Alamos in New Mexico USA and named ‘Clementine’. Despite their long history, fast reactors have so far failed to break through to commercial success. There are some important technical differences and issues with fast reactor operation: · the neutron flux...
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Kimberly Nicholas - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Kimberly Nicholas - Stories of Change

...world one way that’s really clear is that alcohol content has gone up. This can also be due not only to the climate but to management as well. There’s a trend towards consumers or at least influential wine critics preferring a more robust style of wine that’s higher alcohol, but there’s new research that has shown that quite a bit of the accumulation, the increase...
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The restless Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

The restless Universe

...world-view and describe some of the major world-views that have emerged during the evolution of physics describe some of the major concepts of physics, give brief biographical sketches of some of the major contributors to the development of physics and name some of the major events that have helped to shape the subject comment on some of the philosophical issues that are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs