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Sporting women in the media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sporting women in the media

...Management Review, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 331–42. Kim, J. (2024) ‘Why Nike’s new Olympic track uniform for women is stirring controversy’, NPR. Available at: https://www.npr.org/2024/04/15/1244773342/nike-team-usa-women-uniform-revealing-olympics (Accessed: 8 August 2024). Krane, V. (2001) ‘We can be athletic and feminine, but do we want to? Challenging hegemonic...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Health and safety in the laboratory and field
Science, Maths & Technology

Health and safety in the laboratory and field

...Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 (updated 2002) are the most significant regulations in the current health and safety legislation. They are accompanied by an Approved Code of Practice (ACOP) and Health and Safety Executive (HSE) guidance. Regulation 3: Risk assessment In plain English, this means the employer must carry out a risk assessment...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...management. Question 1 Compare the dietary diversity of someone who likes bananas, guava and watermelon with someone who likes apples, strawberries and plums. Note down the family each species is from to help you describe what you find. (75 words) Answer Apples, strawberries and plums are all in the Rosaceae family, meaning they are quite closely related. In contrast,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Supporting climate action through digital education
Education & Development

Supporting climate action through digital education

...management. For example, skills in nature restoration, solar panel installation, installation of low-energy lighting in new-build housing, and manufacturing of home insulation are going to be needed with increasing frequency as the years pass. The Heat Pump Association estimates that 12,400 installers will be needed by 2025 and 50,200 by 2030 (Heat Pump Association, 2020,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...manage in our social and economic systems on the short term, but I think there’s real opportunities there. I think many of us begin to see that a cleaner, greener future could also be one with a very strong economy. The trick is to navigate those climate risks in a way that’s ultimately going to give us a different energy system and many different ways of doing...
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Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list

...manage long distances in the pool is robbing us of the chance to see one of the world's greatest athletes in her element: The most accurate way to describe Katie Ledecky is unstoppable. The American distance swimmer and Rio Olympics favorite doesn’t just beat her opponents by a couple hundredths of a second or an extra half stroke. Her winning margin in races is often...
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Article 5 mins
A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...manage to do all that without using universe. Evolution is often used as a kind of universal metaphor, and that's a real danger. I'm often reminded of the fact, not many people know this, that the United States' Constitution with the President and House of Representatives and the Senate and the like, was actually designed as a model of the universe, of the solar system....
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Article 30 mins
Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...managed using rationally-designed drugs. The agents that were discovered empirically usually provided the starting point for greater understanding. Within the last 20 years an increasing understanding of the mechanisms by which pain itself is experienced has arisen, especially chronic neuropathic pain (that which is not accompanied by visible symptoms) and this has...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs