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More or Less: interview with Tim Harford
Science, Maths & Technology

More or Less: interview with Tim Harford

...managed to identify well this guy is the same age as the governor, has the same number of kids as the governor, lives on the same street as the governor, it’s probably the governor. So that I think has slowed down the open data movement. And these are serious things we need to wrestle with. But I wouldn’t write it off either. So much of what we do now on More or Less...
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Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...managed, some years later, to translate that, because of the technological advances, into pictures, we have commissioned, essentially, a World on the Move on television, where we’ll be following the movement of animals around the world, using all sorts of technology. So I could argue in terms of ideas you can take more risks on radio, radio is always ahead of...
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Looking at population data
Society, Politics & Law

Looking at population data

...management and planning land use. The dawn of the Common Era saw census taking in China and throughout the Roman Empire. Although the Domesday Book of 1086 thoroughly surveyed England, the emphasis there was more on cataloguing land and property than generating population estimates. The modern age of census taking began two hundred years or so ago. In England,...
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Using film music in the classroom
Education & Development

Using film music in the classroom

...manage to guide our expectations and we feel uncomfortable if the music is ‘wrong’ somehow: too loud or quiet, expressing action too explicitly, or not saying enough. Click on the first link below to watch a video extract from an interview with Marvin Hamlisch, who gives his account of writing the music for the famous skiing sequence in The Spy Who Loved Me, click the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Gene testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Gene testing

...management because of ethical problems that can arise from the kind of information they provide. We are confronted with moral choices here, for example, who gets that information and under what circumstances, what they do with it, and who decides what to do with it, are all important issues. Even finding out what people would like to know is not necessarily
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Crimes of the powerful
Society, Politics & Law

Crimes of the powerful

...management weren't gonna allow us inside the factory. And we didn’t have some of the scientific skills necessary to map the health effects per se upon the local community, but we could write their story on their behalf and with their input of course. And Dave and I did this in terms of publishing short articles in local magazines about the .. about the factory in an...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Presenting information
Digital & Computing

Presenting information

...manageable form. I will start by showing how a table can be used to summarise information. Then, I will look at how percentages can be used to compare different quantities. Finally, I will explore some of the ways in which information can be presented in a graphical form...Presenting information: 1 2.2 Reading a table - Tables are a common way of presenting information....
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Supporting university students with a mental health condition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting university students with a mental health condition

...manager, followed by colleagues, family and friends, as well as external professional colleagues, Student Support Team, Tutor Forum, Togetherall (online Mental Health support service) and in-house training sessions. Most tutors said that they would welcome more training to be better prepared to support students with a MHC. Training suggestions were: ‘… anxiety,...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs