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Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...community. To be from St Pauls for some people meant being oppressed by institutions such as the police, being exploited by financial institutions and living in poverty within an affluent society. Accordingly, the police, financial institutions and symbols of luxury were the targets of attacks during the conflict. The behaviour of the protesters could therefore be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...communicates with and relates to other people, and interacts with the world around them. Autism is much more common than was previously thought. About one per cent (or one in a hundred) of people in the UK are thought to be on the autism spectrum. You may know someone with autism, or be on the autism spectrum yourself. The exact causes are still unknown, but there is good...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Oliver Sacks: "Don't skip the footnotes"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "Don't skip the footnotes"

...communicate what might seem inexpressible. These case studies are never about a condition somehow neatly cleaved from the subject and held up to view, but rather seek a “thick description” of the context and contingency of how neurological difference manifests itself. The late Robin Williams – who played a fictionalised version of Sacks in the film adaptation of...
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Blade Runner: What's the balance between science and fiction?
Science, Maths & Technology

Blade Runner: What's the balance between science and fiction?

...communicator. Because by the second day of incubation, any cells that have undergone reversion mutation give rise to revertant colonies … We’ve already tried it – ethyl methanesulfonate - as an alkylating agent and potent mutagen; it created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before it even left the table. – Dr Eldon Tyrell in Blade Runner One of the panel’s...
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Batman v Superman: Are superheroes always good?
History & The Arts

Batman v Superman: Are superheroes always good?

...community took on particular force. Athenian society emphasised that one should act for the common good, but aristocratic families were still powerful in public life. They dominated political debate, formed the majority of generals, and paid for many public benefits. Athenians were constantly afraid that a charismatic individual would become too powerful, and attempt to...
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Learning through spoken interaction
Education & Development

Learning through spoken interaction

...communicate by various means such as crying and making gestures and sounds. Over the next few years they will learn to speak in order to learn. Most people around them will help them develop speaking skills by talking to them and encouraging them as they try to express themselves. These young children do not simply copy what they have heard. For example, children may make...
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Article 10 mins
Selling Empire: The Empire Marketing Board
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: The Empire Marketing Board

...community, and a way of enriching metropole and colonies alike. [EMB Canadian lumbermen] 'Canadian Lumbermen', by Frank Newbould, from the 'The Empire is Still Building' series of posters; 60 x 40 ins; displayed September-October 1930; (TNA) CO956/225 Typically, not just EMB posters but other Empire collections of the time, such as sets of cigarette cards, portrayed the...
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Where do we get the help that really counts?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Where do we get the help that really counts?

...community facilities such as the local pub, a bicycle maintenance project, a general practitioner, an employer, a family member as well as care workers from community-based organisations. Informal sources of support are used by a wide range of people in distress whether or not they are recognised as having a mental health problem. It has long been known that there are...
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