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Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...write very big or very small numbers. You'll also cover units of measurement, like kilogrammes, metres, and litres, and how they came about. This week starts with a video about bottled water consumption. It's a short, documentary-style video from the Open University, which uses numbers in a similar way to news programmes and other documentaries. I hope you'll enjoy the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Pain and Aspirin
Science, Maths & Technology

Pain and Aspirin

...writing this functional group it is often abbreviated to —COOH or —CO2H. Some people refer to it as a ‘coo’ (rhymes with blue) group in conversation...Pain and aspirin: 4.2 The functional group approach - It is the classification of functional groups that simplifies the study of organic chemistry (the chemistry of compounds that contain carbon). With many...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief

...write. What helped me? Daily journaling helped me off load during Alan’s illness. Turning my notes into a book helped me navigate my way through grief. I was also lucky enough to have bereavement support from Marie Curie counsellors and the charity Cruse. I carried on writing in my journal after Alan died, but in the form of letters to him. To help me deal with his...
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Article 5 mins
Life on the wall: Vindolanda
History & The Arts

Life on the wall: Vindolanda

...writing tablets provide brilliant shafts of light on aspects of daily life than would otherwise remain entirely unknown. The names of hundreds of individuals have appeared, ranging from senior commanding officers to private soldiers, from officers’ wives to personal slaves, and from the Governor of Britain’s groom to baths orderlies, brewers, pig keepers, pharmacists...
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Article 10 mins
Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs

...write it down in this journal. Noticing this often also stops it! Reflecting on what is in the journal may help you recognise the most common self-limiting beliefs to work on. The Rubber Band Technique. This method can feel a bit self-conscious at first but is one of the quickest ways to change thinking. Wear a rubber band around your wrist: tight enough to stay on and...
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Article 10 mins
Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list

...Writing for The Conversation, Mark Beeson weighs the corrosive effects of repeated incidents across France: France occupies a unique place in the history of Western civilisation in particular and “civilised” values more generally. There’s a lot to be said for secular states, as recent events remind us. Putting the priests and the mullahs in their place and throwing...
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Article 30 mins
Thirty-seven winters of discontent
History & The Arts

Thirty-seven winters of discontent

...Writing in The Times, Gavin Bell sounded a warning about what might follow from a winter of discontent in Northern Ireland: "The militant 'loyalists' of Ulster are emerging from a winter of discontent and preparing for a summer of murderous political violence." 1987 In Spain, a ban on political demonstrations attempted to keep a lid on simmering social tensions. Would it...
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Article 5 mins
Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
Education & Development

Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi

...write this down on your blackbooks and journals.Hip hop culture is eternal. Run and tell all your friends. An ancient civilisation has been born again. It’s a fact.’ Whereas the most widely circulating ‘definitions’ of hip hop derive from those organic intellectuals who were produced by US-American hip hop culture (like KRS-One), global hip hop practitioners, such...
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Article 5 mins