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What is a scientific model?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a scientific model?

...world and simulating what happens when we fiddle around with them: how much rainfall, the flow of rivers, that type of thing. It’s a way of simplifying the chaos of the physical world, in a computer so that we can try to predict what might happen in the real world. You can run simulations thousands of times, each with very subtle changes to see what happens. When Jim...
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Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision

...world and it does go back to childhood and I can remember the usual thing of being… hankering after a stickleback from a stream, that kind of stuff. But the seminal event like so many people, was Life On Earth. I watched the series, I had the book, I did… when we had to talks at school about animals I researched things out of Life on Earth and present stuff from that....
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The Bletchley Park connection
History & The Arts

The Bletchley Park connection

...World War...During the Second World War, Asa Briggs was just one of a whole generation of the brightest people in Britain (and some from Poland, France and the USA) who worked at Bletchley Park, breaking enemy codes. The process – given the codename ‘ULTRA’ – played a key role in the Allied victory. To make it work, the British government’s foreign intelligence...
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Who belongs to Glasgow?
Society, Politics & Law

Who belongs to Glasgow?

...World War, combined with growing problems of inadequate housing, rising unemployment and industrial agitation and militancy, gave rise to the image which arguably has dominated reportage of Glasgow for most of this century. For example: There is something deeply wrong with the Clyde, … that sends in repeated menace, to every successive Parliament, the same bitter group...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
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Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...world they are born, who their parents are, and what access they have to early childhood education and care. When a baby is born, there is often a wealth of friends and family who are ready to offer advice and guidance to the new parent on the best way to care for the young child. That advice is informed by family practices and society's expectations. Once the child...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...World Bank, 2000-2003, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1994-1999. He was Head of the UK Government Economic Service 2003-7, and produced the landmark Stern Review on the economics of climate change. He was knighted for services to economics in 2004 and made a cross-bench life peer as Baron Stern of Brentford in 2007. His most recent book is...
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Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture
History & The Arts

Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture

...world traveller. GABRIELLE HUGHES: I've lived in the UK now for four years. And it's very interesting coming from my nation in Canada to sort of the heart of the empire. I think it's really important that the people who live here can see that we are living peoples their living traditions. DAVID MILROY: It's quite interesting to be here in London and to be performing in...
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Ethics in science?
Science, Maths & Technology

Ethics in science?

...world that are entirely concerned with making judgements about whether science meets suitable ethical standards or not. Nowadays, we are used to expecting treatments for illnesses to have undergone significant testing in a scientific manner and expect that there should be evidence that something is effective before it is used as a widespread treatment. However, this was...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs