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Stonehenge before the First World War
History & The Arts

Stonehenge before the First World War

...adult mind. The most amusing instance of a false picture of something seen in childhood and continuing through life I have met was that of an Italian peasant I knew in South America. He liked to talk to me about the cranes, those great and wonderful birds he had become acquainted with in childhood in his home on the plains of Lombardy. The birds, of course, only appeared...
Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision

...adult audiences because it’s such a great way of creatively communicating these issues. And Steve Backshall, within the context of things, does a good job in terms of communicating the wider story around conservation and biodiversity loss. The potential of new technology for reporting the environment So, in terms of a democratic way of people being able to create and...
The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies
Health, Sports & Psychology

The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies

...adults who as children had lived through the worst period of Troubles-related violence (from 1970 to 1977) as the age group that experienced the most rapid rise in suicides in the decade after 1998. It seems obvious that this group, the middle-aged who’d seen the worst of the Troubles, would be affected. But what about teenagers, people like Jonny? We were the Ceasefire...
Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...adults and peers there is a clear motivation for the child to behave in a gender-stereotyped manner. However, there is also evidence of choice and flexibility in children’s behaviour, and this is where cognitive processes come into play. Once children have begun to internalise the standards of behaviour appropriate for males and females, based on the social experiences...
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...um, you talk about someone being ‘in the opposite side of the sidewalk’ en la acera de enfrente, and combinations of these like, for example, loca is quite a well-known expression to refer to a, to a gay man. Um, you can also have variants like musculoca, which is basically a ‘muscle Mary’, as you would say it in English. Interviewer: Well, it’s interesting because it looks like all these groups that have their own code ......
Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course

...de te ne le gu ku hu wo yi You will then hear some consonants, or initials, combined with the final i. Listen and repeat. ji qi xi zi ci si zhi chi shi ri You will now hear six single vowels known as finals in Chinese. Repeat after each sound. a e i o u ü Now we will combine these vowels with some consonants known as initials in Chinese. Note how similar they sound to...
Some merits of Manchester
History & The Arts

Some merits of Manchester

...De Quincey shed a backward gleam upon his native place, which can still show the house where he was probably born and the grammar-school he certainly ran away from. In my forgetfulness, or my ignorance, that Manchester was the mother of this tricksy master-spirit of English prose, who was an idol of my youth, I failed to visit either house. The renown of Cobden and of...
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

...de Loutherbourg’s Eidophusikon. But Barker was emphatic in his wording when defending the show against these comparisons: There is no deception of glasses, or any other whatever; the view only being a fair sketch, displaying at once a circle of a very extraordinary extent, the same as if on the spot; forming perhaps, one of the most picturesque views in Europe. The idea...