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Researching Antarctic ice sheets
Nature & Environment

Researching Antarctic ice sheets

...feedback, and ice losses are sustained until the grounding line finds a new stable position such as a flatter area of bedrock. Last year satellite data confirmed that the grounding line in the Amundsen Sea Embayment in West Antarctica is showing sustained and widespread retreat, and two modelling studies of the great Pine Island Glacier (shown on the map) and next door...
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How do I pitch an idea to a science editor?
Science, Maths & Technology

How do I pitch an idea to a science editor?

...feedback provided by the editor. It will ensure the piece is better and more suited to the outlet. Respect the agreed word length Don’t try to negotiate the word length. The editor has a word limit and a budget, and it is theirs to bestow. Once you have built a good relationship with an editor, it’s okay to ask for more space, but only with justification. Keep them up...
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What You Need to Know About Psychometrics
Health, Sports & Psychology

What You Need to Know About Psychometrics

...feedback on each test score and try to remember which part of each test was most challenging. If you need to brush up on maths and/or English skills, look for free courses (see OpenLearn). Then practice each test again and don’t be tempted to give up! Psychometric test practice websites Try to find out which psychometric tests the employer or sector you are interested...
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Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...feedback, etc...What is systems thinking and practice? The essence of systems thinking and practice is in 'seeing' the world in a particular way, because how you 'see' things affects the way you approach situations or undertake specific tasks. This free course will help you to learn about the problems of defining a system and meet some of the key concepts used in systems...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality Badge icon
Money & Business

Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality

...feedback here about you, your circumstances or your idea without knowing what they are. However, you will get a lot more from a discussion with a legal adviser having done some preparatory thinking and being clear about what is important to you based on all the points made above about your goals, future ambitions, the lifestyle you are seeking and whether or how you want...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...class expertise in oil exploration’, an employee in that organisation ‘earning a salary to pay my mortgage for my house’ and an outside observer of the organisation claiming the organisation is ‘focused on profit at the expense of the global environment and people’. Activity 4 Considering the perspectives of others Timing: Allow about 10 minutes Thinking back to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn
History & The Arts

10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn

...la machine analytique de Charles Babbage’ from the original French. At first she was content to perform only the translation, but at Babbage’s instigation, she began to add extensive annotations to the original text. These ‘algebraic working’s are what we would now call a computer program – they were the commands that would be punched into Jacquard cards and fed...
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How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?

...class of drugs for treating cancer, known as PARP inhibitors. PARP – or poly-ADP ribose polymerase, to give it its full name – is a protein found in all our cells, and forms part of this backup repair system. It is particularly critical in cancer cells with faults in genes called BRCA1 or BRCA2, which play an important role in gluing together breaks in DNA. Errors in...
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