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Animals at the extremes: the desert environment
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: the desert environment

...simple strategies for keeping T b below lethal levels. In sandy desert areas, the sand itself plays an important role in behavioural thermoregulatory strategies. The Mojave fringe-toed lizard (Uma scoparia) (Figure 16) is restricted to fine, wind-blown sand, e.g. in dunes, dry lake beds and desert scrub in the Mojave desert. Burrows in sand collapse immediately or soon...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...simple equations. Don’t panic! Wherever they are used, we teach you step by step how to read them. A general point to be aware of is that where one term is multiplied by another we will follow standard maths notation and leave out the multiplication sign. For example, in Section 6, you will see the equation of consumption C = a + bY. We write ‘bY’ instead of writing...
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Level 2: Intermediate 28 hrs
Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...simple decision rule is quite clear: play Game B. But what if you lose on your one toss? Personally, I could not afford the loss of €10,000 and I doubt if many of you could either. The possible negative outcome is not supportable, so I must decline to play Game B even though the expected return is more favourable. The simple rule therefore needs to be extended to...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...simple claims, such as it was too cold in Canada for the Indians or that they were culturally unsuited to Canada, you know, these commonsensical kinds of objections and closed, of course, in this is, in fact, the best for the Indians themselves. So always looking out for our brothers and sisters across the way. But of course, this has no legal basis. You know, if people...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Supporting physical development in early childhood
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting physical development in early childhood

...simple tasks independently when they start school. We see children who are struggling to sit still on chairs in class and at mealtimes or when drawing and writing. Some are still not potty trained although most children are developmentally ready for potty training between the ages of 2 and 3 years old. Children can often use handheld screen devices with confidence. But we...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...simple temperature measurements. RH: The University of East Anglia Scientist Phil Jones said, when asked about the pause, five years is far too soon to tell any trend whatsoever. If after ten years we're still in a pause then we'll start wondering where our models have gone wrong. And we're now what, 18 years now? TS: No, the pause has gone away to a large extent. If you...
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More or Less: interview with Tim Harford
Science, Maths & Technology

More or Less: interview with Tim Harford

...simple stuff. So I don’t think there’s a consistent aim in everything we do. We are a magazine format. But we certainly believe that a lot of the statistical takedowns that we do, you could do yourself at home without any particular statistical training. It might take a Google search or two, often not even that. Just a little bit of common sense and ask yourself some...
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Audio 20 mins
Paul Williams - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Paul Williams - Earth in Vision

...simple for somebody to take that programme and put it online and share it however they want to. So we can try and fight that and we do, organisations, television broadcasters fight that, they have a team of lawyers who constantly search online, they search YouTube and they are forever putting in claims of copyright against people who are sharing the programmes on their...
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Video 30 mins