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Next month: Sunrise Conference 2010
The first weekend of September will play host to our new national event, Sunrise Conference. Hosted by LUU Debating Society in association with ourselves, Sunrise will bring together leaders of free...
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I’m currently in the process of re-reading Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity is Near and having read the section about how the brain rewrites itself as you learn got me thinking. This is nothing new of...
View ArticleAre exams getting easier?
It’s everyone’s favourite time of year again – the debate as to whether exams are getting easier. Yet again of course, exam results have gone up and everyone is asking “have exams gotten easier?” The...
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What is nine times seven? Did you know it was sixty three before reading this far? You probably did, but don’t pat yourself on the back too hard yet, as it could well have been that your brain was...
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One of the most active members of Toastmasters is my friend John Fletcher who was working towards the end of his Competent Communicator manual when I joined and has since completed it and moved onto...
View ArticleCapturing the moment
I’ve been meaning to do a photography course for a long time. But every time I look into it I realise I’ve just missed an intake or it’s at least some ridiculous amount of time until the next one...
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Last Monday, we went to the final session of our photography course. Overall, it was well worth attending. I’ve read plenty of books on how to use my camera, but having in person tuition and going...
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Teach Like a Champion
After being recommended the book Teach Like a Champion by another book, I decided to give it a read. I thought it was worth doing because it would have a lot of transferable skills that I could take...
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Piano: six months on
Six months ago I bought myself a piano and began taking lessons. It was hard to fit in: I had to give up my guitar lessons and when my singing teacher left I did not pursue another. I am not moaning...
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Learn Finnish online
There are some excellent tools out there if you want to learn French or German. There are plenty of tools out there if you want to learn Spanish, or Italian, or Polish. Finnish, not so much. There are...
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Why Udemy pay their instructors £2.68 for a £100 course
I like Udemy, both as a student and an instructor. As a student, I have done some brilliant courses on there. As an instructor, it has been easy to create courses and make them available for sale. But...
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Introductory Human Physiology
I recently completed Introductory Human Physiology. It is the second physiology course I have taken and it was pretty difficult. There is so much to human physiology that the courses do not have much...
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