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The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...busy having a good time to notice. [Beer bottles in a field] Gemma died young. We’d been in the same year at school and, like me, she’d gone to university afterwards. One night in 2001, my sister told me that Gemma had been killed. The car she was in was hit by a van that crossed onto the wrong side of the motorway. The driver was reportedly more than four times over...
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Richard Brock - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Richard Brock - Earth in Vision

...business increased and a lot of trash fish was chucked out of boats, so the fulmars did well and now they’ve gone down, because they’re eating plastic. So the film actually starts in somebody’s house where they’re using plastic in some way and they flush a plastic item down the loo or down the sink, alright so I’ll let you choose your item. Anyway, it goes down...
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Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess

...business about dirt under fingernails and particularly got the little tiny bit about the possibility of dirt being on these lovely clean looking seats in the Wellcome there was a little frisson ran around the audience, what is it about this instinctual aversion to dirt? Amanda Vickery: Well I think some of it is instinctual but I also think it's it's intertwined with...
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Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision

...business. And so yes, archives, but I suggest that a) they’re very expensive b) they are more limited in the information they can give you than you might suppose. Most blue-chip programmes ignore environmental issues. Is this right? The first thing is that natural history broadcasting covers a whole span of things and they don’t necessarily have to do everything in...
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MSE’s Academy of Money Badge icon
Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...business. So, it’s important to get to know lenders. There are banks and building societies, but also many others. And they’re all different. Let’s look at them in detail. The financial services industry is dominated by banks. They include the major ‘high street’ names, such as Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Santander. And...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...business in Kington, in Herefordshire. The Garth is a thirty-four-bed registered care home, but it also has attached to it the domiciliary side, so we go out into the local community and provide care for people in their own home, so this enables them to stay in their own homes, in their own properties. So my role is to manage that side of it, but I do when needed I can go...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...busy to recall the experience and so little conscious learning takes place. Of course, it's useful to carry out familiar activities ‘on auto pilot’ – without conscious attention. It's easy to miss out on important learning from unfamiliar activities too. I may become wrapped up in the activity itself or simply not notice the range and quality of the experience....
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Introducing research in law and beyond
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing research in law and beyond

...business opportunity. He discussed it separately with two business acquaintances, both of whom expressed enthusiasm. One had money. The other had relevant expertise and a small company that might be used to nurture the venture, but also represented a threat. The young man was struggling to sort out how best to proceed; he had about six alternatives in his head but had not...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs