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Grammar matters
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Grammar matters

...adult barrister is in a very powerful position in relation to a young child in the witness box for the first time. By choosing this assertive wording in cross-examination, a barrister enacts their authority over the child and consequently there is a risk that the child will falsely agree to a proposition because they feel unable to challenge the ‘voice of authority’....
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Health and safety in the laboratory and field
Science, Maths & Technology

Health and safety in the laboratory and field

...care of himself (herself) and of other persons who may be affected by his (her) acts or omissions at work. The employees must cooperate with the employer with regard to health and safety procedures. This covers all types of employment within the United Kingdom. The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 applies to all work activities, whether for profit or not. The main...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Citizen science and global biodiversity Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and global biodiversity

...so I do research and I’ve become really interested in citizen science because I care about the science that can be done, and by engaging lots of people over a long term, you can do science, over vast scales, across the country and for many, many decades. And it can be sustainable in a way that isn’t sustainable when relying upon professionals. But I am also really interested in citizen science it’s a way that ......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The gut microbiome: balancing the body
Science, Maths & Technology

The gut microbiome: balancing the body

...adult body? In fact, there are only an estimated 100-400 billion stars in the Milky Way, so there are more cells in the human body than there are stars in the Galaxy! In addition to human cells, there are also another 30-100 trillion non-human cells, such as bacteria, archaea and fungi, and non-living organisms such as viruses, that live on or in the human body. These...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
History & The Arts

Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks

...care of the Clocks, and from whom we had the first report on them 14 or 15 months ago [during an earlier voyage]. ‘I do not blame [Major Holmes] for this’, he insists. But again, ‘There remains one further objection that I know of which reduces the accuracy of this experiment, which is the precise location of the Island of Fuego [which Holmes has miscalculated]’...
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Article 10 mins
Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...careful look at the numbers on that and it is conceivable that we could be in a position to do that but only if we were incredibly efficient in our development of agriculture and essentially feeding ourselves globally; only then we would have the window of opportunity actually do this really large-scale carbon removal from the atmosphere. RH: You mean because we need lots...
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Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity

...care of biodiversity because it has a positive effect on the function of ecosystems that we rely upon in our daily lives. Establishing Patterns and Proposing Hypotheses Owing to the importance of biodiversity for humanity as a whole, as well as an academic interest in why biodiversity is not uniform across the globe, scientists have built on the pioneering efforts of...
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Article 20 mins
A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...cares about cells and metabolism, I feel uneasy when we rather glibly use that metaphor. I'm saying that genes are absolutely essential for the construction of brains but what the missing link was, was not just social and cultural history but also the developmental history of the organism which we construct ourselves, if you like, out of the raw material given by our...
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Article 30 mins