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Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...account of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1483, published three years later in Mainz (Figure 29). Figure 29 Erhard Reuwich, Saracens, from Bernhardt von Breydenbach’s Peregrinationes, 1486, woodcut. With permission of the British Library, shelf mark C.20.5.3. Yet another important source of oriental imagery is an arresting picture (now in the Louvre) by an unknown...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design
Science, Maths & Technology

Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design

...accountability, moderation and an open license to try and possibly fail, knowing you can always revert to the previous version. You don’t get that with design, because the changes are not granular and are not as easily traceable. The first step is steep, and a ladder is nowhere to be found. Encoding/Decoding In his 1980 article “Encoding/Decoding,” cultural theorist...
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Article 10 mins
EU Referendum - Economy
Society, Politics & Law

EU Referendum - Economy

...accounted for 45% of UK exports and 53% of imports (of goods and services) in 2014 , and EU membership is calculated to have increased this share by over 50%. National Policies International rules are both enabling and constraining. The EU surrendered some national power to “Brussels” when it joined the EU, and gave up more powers as the EU extended its Common...
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Article 5 mins
Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye
Health, Sports & Psychology

Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye

...accounts in the media repeatedly reinforced, how important these formal and informal rituals are for how we grieve. The absence of these important aspects may have a significant impact on the health and wellbeing of the bereaved. We still don’t know how these ongoing restrictions will impact on the long-term support needs of individuals and communities. But academics at...
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Article 20 mins
Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition
Society, Politics & Law

Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition

...accounts of the barbarous nature of the slave trade on his wider travels around the Empire. By 1789 William Wilberforce had initiated an anti-slavery abolitionist campaign in Parliament, and while this in the long term proved decisive, the French Revolution of the same year and the slave rebellion in the French colony of Haiti initially poured cold water on this idea. Yet...
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Article 20 mins
Artificial intelligence
Digital & Computing

Artificial intelligence

...accounts for some of our abilities. So that, for instance, our memories are not perfect - we don't remember everything, and that explains some of the things that we are able to do. And when you produce a perfect system that does whatever you tell it to, and stores every piece of information you've ever got, you can't produce the same kind of behaviour". On the difference...
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Article 15 mins
Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...accounts for around 70% of the current total mass-energy density of the Universe and may be characterised in terms of the cosmological constant, represented by the symbol normal cap lamda . This plays a key role in the evolution of the Universe, as you will see in Section 4 of this course. The main observational evidence for dark energy is the observed accelerating...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...account, and medical practitioners can use pharmaceutical drugs as part of their toolkit when treating someone with mental health problems. Scientific research in this field often looks at the structures and the physical processes going on within the brain. So this approach is often referred to as being based on a ‘bio-medical’ model of mental health...Making sense of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs