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Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...change? This free course can help you with your own housing decisions, as well as understand the politics that often drive the housing market...Everyone needs a place they call home and housing costs are usually your largest outgoing. Many aspire to buy, but rising house prices, while good news for existing owners, put homeownership beyond the reach of others. This free...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Exploring the English language
History & The Arts

Exploring the English language

...changed over the course of the last 500 years? What are the social and political contexts that have affected how these changes have come about? This free course, Exploring the English language, will consider the development of the English language from the 15th to the 19th century...How has the English language changed over the course of the last 500 years? What are the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Strangers on a train platform: Refugees feel the hostility of Hungary
Society, Politics & Law

Strangers on a train platform: Refugees feel the hostility of Hungary

...Climate of fear Hungary has long been polarised over Europe. Fidesz and its sister party KDNP (the Christian Democratic People’s Party) have stirred up popular fear and hatred of the West, of Western capitalism, and of Western lifestyles, which promote “unnatural” relationships. Fidesz has styled itself as a guardian of “Europe” against the threat of the...
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Article 10 mins
UK nuclear industry faces Brexit fall-out
Society, Politics & Law

UK nuclear industry faces Brexit fall-out

...Board, which was established by the UK government in 2013, said a whole lot of new international agreements would have to be in place before anything in the nuclear sector could be transferred between countries. “We would be crippled without other agreements in place,” she said. Originally published on May 17th by the Climate News Network, written by Paul Brown...
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Article 5 mins
The Dates of the Buddha
History & The Arts

The Dates of the Buddha

...climate for the acceptance of Buddhist ideas, and generated among Buddhist monks certain expectations of patronage and influence on the machinery of political decision making. Prior to Ashoka Buddhism was a relatively minor tradition in India and some scholars have proposed that the impact of the Buddha in his own day was relatively limited. Archaeological evidence for...
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Article 5 mins
The Great Fall: Berlin’s ‘Freedom’ concert
History & The Arts

The Great Fall: Berlin’s ‘Freedom’ concert

...change to the composition. In its last movement, the Ninth Symphony sets a text by Friedrich Schiller, An die Freude—or ‘Ode to Joy’. Bernstein, in the spirit of recent events, took the decision to amend the text sung, changing each mention of the word Freude (joy) to Freiheit (freedom). The concert thus became known as the Berlin ‘Freedom’ concert. It’s an...
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Systems explained by Humberto Maturana
Money & Business

Systems explained by Humberto Maturana

...meaning; Belongs to engineering not biology; Dynamics of structural change Transcript 13. Triggering change in human social system; Escaping traps; Totalitarian system Transcript 14. Reflecting on the use of his ideas; Education systems grounded in love Transcript Further links Chilean Biologist Humberto Maturana Dies At 92 Chilean polymath Humberto Maturana remembered...
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Dating apps: is swiping right a thing of the past?
History & The Arts

Dating apps: is swiping right a thing of the past?

...changed her hairstyle. Growing up before and during the MSN messenger, Bebo, Facebook and later Tinder and Bumble era, I’ve also seen and experienced how dating habits have changed. As millennials, we are a generation comfortable on apps and experienced with meeting in bars and clubs; we have seen both sides of the coin. Now in my mid-30s, I am surrounded by married...
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Article 5 mins