Russia buries boat tragedy victims
July 13 - Victims of a boat accident in Russia's Volga river are buried in Kazan. Simon Hanna reports.
Author(s): No creator set

Bank Stress Tests: Spanish failures seen but Italy to pass
July 13 - Daiwa Capital Markets credit analyst Michael Symonds says some Spanish savings banks will fail the EU-wide stress tests, which will be released on Friday, but Italian banks are likely to pass.
Author(s): No creator set

Underwater U.S. homeowners assess options: Stay or walk away
July 13 - The White House says it's ramping up efforts to fix housing and with good reason— there are more American homeowners now under water on mortgages than at any time since the crisis began.
Author(s): No creator set

Hundreds rescued from migrant boat
July 13 - Italian coastguard officials carry small children from a boat packed with migrants after the overcrowded vessel ran into trouble off the Italian island of Lampedusa. Nick Rowlands reports.
Author(s): No creator set

Fed chief's stern debt warning
July 13 - U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned failure to lift the debt ceiling would throw the financial system into enormous disarray. He also said the Fed has more it can do to help the U.S. economy if needed. Bobbi Rebell reports.
Author(s): No creator set

News Corp suit isolated to UK, pending more evidence: Coffee
July 13 - News Corp's hacking scandal took place in the UK and can only be sued in the U.S. if additional evidence against the American parent company is revealed, says Columbia law professor John Coffee.
Author(s): No creator set

Arianna Huffington's key to happiness
July 6 - Arianna Huffington tells Atlantic's James Bennet and Reuters' Chrystia Freeland the secret to happiness - and education reform.
Author(s): No creator set

Defying the crackdown in Syria
July 13 - Amateur video purportedly shows anti-government protesters in several Syrian cities defying crackdown to demonstrate against President Assad. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Author(s): No creator set

Day Ahead: JPMorgan upside surprise likely
July 13 - JPMorgan reports second-quarter earnings before the bell and Reuters Quantitative Analyst Mike Tarsala says lower debt issuance and a rise in commercial loans are likely to lead to an upside surprise.
Author(s): No creator set

Rebels advance towards Tripoli.
July 13 - Rebel fighters say they have retaken a village south of Tripoli that they lost to forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi earlier in the day. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Author(s): No creator set

Mexico killings
July 14 - Bloody crime spree leaves 38 people dead across Mexico in suspected drug violence. Marie-Claire Fennessy reports
Author(s): No creator set

Seoul holds rates amid uncertainty
July 14 - South Korea's central bank reaffirms anti-inflation stance, but stands pat on rates amid global uncertainty and high household debt levels. Arnold Gay reports.
Author(s): No creator set

Mumbai awakes after attack
July 14- Indian's financial capital, Mumabi wakes as investigations continue into the triple bomb blast which struck the city. (Rough cut)
Author(s): No creator set

Putnam County World War II Memorial
On the southwest corner of the courthouse lawn a World War II Memorial incorporates the infamous German V-1 "buzz bomb." It sits upon a v-shaped limestone base. It was dedicated November 11, 1948, as a tribute to Putnam County veterans killed in action.,Use of this image is restricted to projects related to Destination Indiana.,Putnam County Journey
Author(s): Larry Tippin, Putnam County Historian

William J. Kennedy Teaching Certification
Center Point was where the first two-story department school house was built in the Clay County. William J. Kennedy was one of the contributors. He was a teacher and physician in the area after moving there from Ohio. This is his teaching certification.,Clay County Journey
Author(s): Creator not set

Introduction

This unit discusses the future of Europe, and it looks particularly closely at what may happen to the smaller political units presently existing below the level of the nation-state. These include nation-regions like Scotland and Wales, larger entities like the German Länder, and smaller more recently created regions with less existing cultural unity. Despite the very large differences between them, for our purposes all these political entities are called ‘regions’. The un
Author(s): No creator set

How to Give a Good Presentation
How to Give a Good Presentation. Part of the series: Physical Delivery for Good Presentations. For good presentations, physical delivery helps the audience focus and hear the content. Give good presentations with tips from a teacher, presenter and facilitator. (01:41)
Author(s): No creator set

6.2 Shaping knowledge

It seems inevitable that any understandings we have will have been shaped and influenced by other (past and present) members of the same culture(s) we belong to. Most of these influences ‘just happen’: they arise out of our experiences as part of a culture whose members have had their experiences and shared them over many centuries. However, knowledge can also be deliberately influenced by powerful elements within a society: as we saw in Section 5.3, the church suppressed Galileo's r
Author(s): No creator set

5.7 Summary

This section of the unit has made you aware that:

• science is formed by a community of practice, creating knowledge and requiring a special language for its communication;

• there is a difference between objective scientific methods and subjective ways of knowing;

• political power influences scientific discoveries, and scientific knowledge is always socially embedded;

• public understanding and perception of scien
  Author(s): No creator set
  

  License information

  Related content

  Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence - see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ - Original copyright The Open University

  No related items provided in this feed