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Earth and Life
Science, Maths & Technology

Earth and Life

...research and experimentation into climate change by Maureen Raymo of MIT. Tibet: the geological history A look at the geological history of Tibet and the Raymo Ruddiman hypothesis; that chemical weathering increased as the temperature dropped due to the rise in the plateau. Raymo and Ruddiman believed that the uplift of the Himalayas caused global cooling. Tibet: The...
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Education & Development

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...researcher. Using the topic areas, you can create your own development resource that you might wish to share with other home educators, learners or practitioners. It would be great to hear about your experience of using the resources within the Elective Home Education Hub, so feel free to get in touch with our lead academic, Dr Amber Fensham-Smith
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Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...research and observation to find out people’s current needs, this is also called ‘actual demand’. Anticipating – means spotting gaps emerging in the market and predicting what people might need in the future, this is also called ‘latent demand’. Marketing organisations often describe themselves as customer-led, but it can be just as important to be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...research literature. You will explore the need to draw on theories, models, frameworks and evidence to support your writing, compare contrasting theoretical arguments, explain convincingly why you find an argument (position or standpoint) particularly compelling, and begin to be able to explain the implications of argument for your own practice within academic or...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Rosetta unexpectedly finds oxygen on comet 67P, surprising scientists
Science, Maths & Technology

Rosetta unexpectedly finds oxygen on comet 67P, surprising scientists

...researchers. Tracing the origin of O2 Oxygen is one of the most abundant elements in our galaxy and solar system, and we take the free molecular oxygen that makes up 20% of our atmosphere for granted with every breath. So why is finding oxygen in a comet such a big deal? Oxygen readily binds with other abundant elements such as hydrogen (H) or carbon ( C ) to form water...
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Methods in Motion: A view from a train
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: A view from a train

...research methods, and is not a solely philosophical matter. The troublesome notion of ‘being in motion’ has been a theme in science for hundreds of years, and it surely reached a zenith with Einsteinian relativity. It is no exaggeration to say that Einstein put all prior scientific certainty into question. Perhaps understandably, for most of human existence people...
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Canada & UK launch coal phaseout plan
Nature & Environment

Canada & UK launch coal phaseout plan

...Researching Arctic ice melt: The coal alliance will help the Inuit. Image: via ] Researching Arctic ice melt: The coal alliance will help the Inuit. Canada and the UK have launched the Powering Past Coal Alliance, a collection of 20 countries, six provinces or states, and one city committed to phasing out coal, shifting to cost-competitive renewable energy alternatives,...
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Life in immigration limbo: Befriending the women of Yarl's Wood
Society, Politics & Law

Life in immigration limbo: Befriending the women of Yarl's Wood

...researching and volunteering as a “befriender” and trustee with Yarl’s Wood Befrienders, a charitable volunteer visitors’ group that offers emotional and practical support to women migrants and asylum seekers detained in Yarl’s Wood. Detainees are allocated a befriender who visits them weekly until they leave the centre. But most of them don’t know when that...
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