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Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...English-speaking world, but to see him go out with this amazing, crusading fight on climate change has been quite tonic for me. RH: Before we just finish the politics bit, what hopes do you have of a global agreement on climate change in Paris? And do you think that our focus on those big global agreements is helpful, or do you think there are other factors at play now?...
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Leo Tolstoy on King Lear
History & The Arts

Leo Tolstoy on King Lear

...English in 1906 - Tolstoy suggests King Lear shows Shakespeare up as something of a hack...Altho I know that the majority of people so firmly believe in the greatness of Shakespeare that in reading this judgment of mine they will not admit even the possibility of its justice, and will not give it the slightest attention, nevertheless I will endeavor, as well as I can, to...
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Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...English is (relatively!) more understandable. I found a stone, (but) did not weigh it; (after) I subtracted one-seventh, added one-eleventh, (and) subtracted one-thir[teenth], I weighed (it): 1 ma-na. What was the origin(al weight) of the stone? [The origin(al weight)] of the stone was 1 ma-na, 9½ gin, (and) 2½ se. This tablet contained 22 such problems-and-answers,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...English Channel] Figure 28 Gossamer Albatross. The first human-powered aircraft to cross the English Channel A further prize of £100,000 was offered by the Man-Powered Flight subcommittee of the Royal Aeronautical Society for the first human-powered flight across the English Channel to France. MacCready returned in 1979 and landed that prize with Gossamer Albatross...
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Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs
Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
Science, Maths & Technology

Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

...everyday life people tend to use these terms interchangeably, in reality they are two separate (though related) entities. The internet is a global network of networks: an internetwork (hence its name). It is the infrastructure that connects computers together. At first written with an upper-case ‘I’, it is increasingly seen with a lower-case ‘i’. The Web (short...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...everyday language there are many environments – the economic environment, the political environment, for example – as well as the 'natural environment'. What we mean by these usages is the context in which we live and work, which both shapes and influences us and on which we, in turn, have an effect. They are all suitable topics for study, but this course is mainly...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Coaching neurodivergent athletes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching neurodivergent athletes

...everyday experiences. More recently, social models of neurodiversity (and other disabilities) have emerged which position neurodiverse experiences within social interactions and influenced by the world around us. This has helped shift thinking from a deficit model to a strength-based one and has been reflected in informal approaches by coaches in sport (Hoare et al.,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport

...English Institute of Sport (EIS) #More2Me campaign launched in 2019 to help athletes develop a better sport–life balance. This campaign is part of their performance lifestyle programme. You will explore performance lifestyle next...Session 3: Out of the blocks – preparing athletes for career transitions: 2 Performance lifestyle - In recognition of the challenges that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs