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An introduction to exoplanets Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...Table 1 Solar System distances with toilet paper PLANET NUMBER OF SHEETS FROM PREVIOUS PLANET Mercury 1 Venus 1 (0.9) Earth 1 (0.7) Mars 1 (1.3) Jupiter 9 (9.5) Saturn 12 (11.3) Uranus 25 (24.9) Neptune 28 (28.0) Notice that as you go further out the planets generally become more distant from each other. The Sun would look much smaller and its light and heat would seem...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Interviews - Writing For Radio
History & The Arts

Interviews - Writing For Radio

...table, um, in one scene, and you can move seamlessly into five thousand years earlier, um, and it’s a very easy thing to do. So I think from an imaginative point of view, the imag… the imaginative opportunities that writing for radio gives you are fantastic. And, um, it may appear to be difficult to get into, to break into this, this mysterious hallowed world of radio...
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Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...table 134) identified assaults where there was a probable racial motive from studying victims’ detailed descriptions of the incidents. On the most restrictive definition (counting assaults only where the motive was plainly racist) the survey showed an incidence of racial attacks around ten times higher than revealed by the statistics derived from police records and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...systems for managing change. You were introduced there to a distinction from De Laat and Simons (2002) between learning in social interactions (where the learning process happens within a social context, but the outcome is an individual one) and collective learning (where both the learning process and outcome take a social form). The PFMS heuristic was used to look at the ways in which you can orchestrate systemic ......
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...de St Croix, 2011, p. 49–50). The young of this country are as passionate and idealistic as any before. Perhaps more passionate. They march against poverty, they set up online campaigns, they push their parents to recycle and they care deeply about climate change. But too many of our young people appear lost. Their lives lack shape or any sense of direction. So they...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...De Soto, President, Institute for Liberty and Democracy, Peru. HERNANDO DE SOTO: There is never enough money to alleviate poverty. There’s just not enough in the world. People will end up creating their own wealth the same way Europeans created their own wealth. Nobody came and aided you, you had to create it yourself. That’s the only sure way to do it. NARRATOR: Many...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Lord John Browne - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Lord John Browne - Stories of Change

...table. RH: You have a huge divergence as well between companies here in Europe and companies in the USA in terms of attitude, how on earth is that bridge going to be crossed? JB: Step by step because this debate is not settled, it’s not a settled debate, there are a variety of issues, a variety of views and right now they’re not reconciled, so start with those who can...
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Matt Ridley - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Matt Ridley - Stories of Change

...table where they knock out a lot of the tipping points. They say the halting of the Gulf Stream, the collapse of the Greenland icecap, the halting of the Indian Monsoon, these are very unlikely. Now these were possibilities in previous reports that were taken quite seriously. Now they’re saying that’s not going to happen. They’re also saying – RH: No, they’re...
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