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Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...classes, which are distinguished by the source of their income: on the one hand, there is the capitalist class consisting of people such as Jeff Bezos and other entrepreneurs who own machines, buildings and shares (capital) that generate profits or capital income for them that they can re-invest in the economy. On the other hand, there is the working class, consisting of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...de Paul order in full habit, complete with cornette. All these cultural trends generated cultural products (maps, drawings, descriptions) which are, in themselves, evidence of socio-economic developments and power relations. After all, a person had to be very rich to acquire an estate of land and only the well-off had the money and time to purchase and read travel...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
History & The Arts

Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks

...des sçavans, together with extracts of his letter to Chapelain. I say almost verbatim, because at several points in the narrative phrases have been inserted: ‘having there adjusted his Watches’, ‘having a great confidence in the said Watches’. The same account translated into Dutch eventually featured as the unique account of a sea-trial of pendulum clocks to be...
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Article 10 mins
An introduction to visualising development data
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to visualising development data

...variables by comparing not only the perceived shape that the points make on the chart (an upward trend, for example) but also the distribution of different sized markers. For example, if the markers get larger to the right of the chart, it suggests that the indicator they represent is in some way proportional to the value represented by the horizontal x-axis. Let’s...
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Video 45 mins
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...class upbringing. After serving in the Trinidadian Navy, Selvon worked on newspapers and literary magazines in Port of Spain, Trinidad. He moved to England in 1950, to avoid ‘being lulled into complacency and acceptance of the carefree and apathetic life around me’ (Selvon in Nasta and Rutherford, 1995, p. 58). [Described image] Figure 1 Carnival spectators watching...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Making sense of art history
History & The Arts

Making sense of art history

...variable. (© Courtesy of the artist and Hales Gallery. Photo: Tate Photography/Mark Heathcote.) Plate 6 Rachel Whiteread, House, 1993. (© The artist. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photo: Tate Photography.) Plate 7 Gilbert and George, Life from Death Hope Life Fear, 1984, handcoloured photographs, framed on paper, unique. (Courtesy of Gilbert and George. © Tate, London,...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Teaching and learning tricky topics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...class. These tests contain questions that map onto each topic covered during the lesson. A typical example from a GCSE physics class might be: Work done is measured in: a.Joules b.Watts c.Coulombs d.Newtons Having just finished the class, most students will be able to select the correct response, a). However, this does not necessarily mean that they have a deep...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...class switching), which increases the protection in the blood stream; the affinity of the antibody binding sites for the target antigen is generally higher, so they bind more strongly. In a small number of infectious diseases, active vaccines can also be given therapeutically to people who are already infected, to stimulate their immune system to eliminate the pathogens,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs