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Does counting calories work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does counting calories work?

...adults are overweight or obese. For many of them, the cure is diet: one in three are attempting to lose weight in this way at any given moment. Yet there is ample evidence that diets rarely lead to sustained weight loss. These are expensive failures. This inability to curb the extraordinary prevalence of obesity costs the United States more than $147 billion in...
Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course

...adult children. [A tamil family] Figure 3 Three generations of a Tamil family – the women are wearing saris (saylay, in Tamil), while the patriarch is wearing a vertti, and the young girl in the front is wearing a pavaadai. Activity 1 Select the answer for Question 1a here True or false. Tamil is an official language only in India. True False a. True b. False The...
Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...careful about who… About tweets, for example, going out while you’re filming, because within any big series there will be two or three really good stories that they want to keep back, so that the press have got new stories to talk about when they launch the programme, and the last thing they want is a picture or a tweet going out at the time, which then undermines the...
An introduction to material culture
History & The Arts

An introduction to material culture

...careful study and observation of the physical or material objects generated by those societies. The source material for study is exceptionally wide, including not just human-made artefacts but also natural objects and even preserved body parts (as you saw in the film ‘Encountering a body’). Some specialists in the field of material culture have made bold claims for...
Introducing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...care and love, rather than hate and mistrust...Week 1: The meaning and value of leadership: 1.6 Leadership involves staying engaged and seeing a task through to the end - You need to engage in and stay with leadership practice over time. This is mostly because power has a way of biding its time until the fuss goes away, and then going back to business as usual. Many...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Everyday maths 2 (Northern Ireland)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2 (Northern Ireland)

...adults. How many adult tickets were sold? Answer 1600 tickets sold to adults: 2400 ÷ 3 = 800 to give one divided by three 2 × 800 = 1600 to give two divided by three A college has raised three divided by five of its £40 000 charity fundraising target. How much money does the college need to raise to meet its target? Answer £16 000 needed to meet target. 40 000 ÷ 5 =...
Returning to STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...care for family, because of redundancy or for other reasons. Watch the following video in which Dr Sue Black OBE introduces the course. Transcript There are case study videos placed throughout the course to show you how other people have navigated their own unconventional careers. Importantly, you will hear about how they have got back to STEM employment after a career...
Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Retail marketing
Money & Business

Retail marketing

...careful management of the staff. This activity has illustrated some of the main functions of a retail operation including: buying and merchandising of products human resource management – managing the in-store staff who process your order through the tills or help you at the self-service checkouts logistics and distribution – the processes that get the goods to your...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs