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Fake news, filter bubbles and Facebook
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news, filter bubbles and Facebook

...based only on the headlines, it’s virtually impossible to differentiate the true from the false. They all look equally implausible – but then headlines are meant to grab the attention by highlighting the striking or unusual. (Answer 3 is, apparently, the real story.) We evaluate stories not simply on their plausibility but based on a complex mixture of past...
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Article 10 mins
Chinese education: How do things work?
Society, Politics & Law

Chinese education: How do things work?

...based programmes, in areas such as farming and technical jobs. Chinese schools operate a two-semester year of about nine and a half months. Semester one begins on September 1st and semester two, after the Spring Festival holiday, starts on March 1st. A further holiday period comes during July and August. The primary school curriculum consists of Chinese, mathematics,...
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Article 10 mins
Studying Darwin
Nature & Environment

Studying Darwin

...based animals in surviving in this extreme habitat. This course builds on and develops ideas from two other 'Animals at the extreme' courses: (The desert environment) and (Hibernation and torpor). Surviving the winter In this course, we study one aspect of the fluctuating nature of an organism's environment. We consider how organisms living in a temperate climate, such as...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Fossil evidence for evolution
History & The Arts

Fossil evidence for evolution

...based this idea on a model of speciation originally proposed by the great evolutionary biologist, Ernst Mayr, who suggested that small and geographically isolated populations were most likely to undergo rapid evolutionary change (albeit over several generations - not in a single 'hopeful monster-type' generational leap) and thereby bud off from their parent populations as...
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Article 10 mins
Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback
Health, Sports & Psychology

Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback

...Basing feedback on specific examples (try to avoid general statements), makes the feedback less likely to be open to challenge. One way to sound less accusatory, and avoid defensiveness and not resolving the issue, is to use ‘I’, rather than ‘you’, statements. For example, ‘I feel that the work is not being completed on time’, sounds less blaming than ‘you...
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Article 10 mins
Does handing a company on to the children work?
Money & Business

Does handing a company on to the children work?

...based on the wealth of evidence that suggests family firms have implicit employment commitments with their workers. Evidence of such commitments includes providing better job security as a compensating differential for lower wages and firing fewer employees when hit by negative productivity shocks. We build a simple theoretical framework and propose that, because of these...
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Article 5 mins
After the First World War: the 1919 Egyptian Revolution
History & The Arts

After the First World War: the 1919 Egyptian Revolution

...base for Allied forces, serving as the rear area for the disastrous Gallipoli campaign, and the more successful Allied invasions of Palestine and Syria by the British imperial Egyptian Expeditionary Force.The British authorities imposed martial law on the country, which became a frontline state in the war when Ottoman forces crossed the Sinai Peninsula to try – and fail...
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Article 15 mins
Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...based CPD and translation services among local businesses involved in exporting their products to mainland Europe. Whatever your motivation for tackling this course of study, it will take you on a journey looking at the challenges posed when you live in a rural environment and start you thinking about how you can use this knowledge to run a successful business of your...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs