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Innovation Design: Energy and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Innovation Design: Energy and Sustainability

...change to green technologies, and the current programmes that exist to support that. What drives innovation in sustainable technologies A professor of technology policy talks about the route of innovation in the context of green technologies. Government: actor in the diffusion game The role that government plays in promoting new technologies and the influence that they...
Waste Management
Science, Maths & Technology

Waste Management

...change - reducing the volume of waste going to landfill and developing more incineration sites. Waste Collection Analyse what you throw away. The different methods local authorities use to collect and sort your rubbish. Energy From Waste How incineration generates electricity and hazardous waste is treated at landfill sites. Composting The different types of green waste,...
Water in Ethiopia
Nature & Environment

Water in Ethiopia

...changing world... Water in Ethiopia A short introduction to this album. Water - a human right Access to water in Ethiopia can be a matter of life or death. This is brief look at the lives of people for whom an adequate water supply can never be taken for granted. Water in rural Ethiopia A day in the life of Yeshiemebet Zewdu., a local villager who lives with her husband...
Blood and the respiratory system
Science, Maths & Technology

Blood and the respiratory system

...changes colour when bound by O2, oxygenated blood is often depicted as bright red, whereas deoxygenated blood is shown as blue in colour. This course doesn't explore how blood circulates around the body, but it is important to note that the lungs differ from other organs in that deoxygenated blood is carried to the lungs via arterioles (and larger arteries), whereas...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...changes affect meaning. For example, if we left out the apostrophe in Let’s, which indicates that the u in us has been left out, there would be no loss or distortion of meaning. In this case, incorrect grammar would only be a superficial problem: it might make us question the attention to detail of the text producer, or even cause the reader to make negative social...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Getting started on classical Latin
History & The Arts

Getting started on classical Latin

...change. See if you can match the following Latin/English words with the meanings of the original Latin words below. agenda things to be discussed data things given exit he/she goes out formula rule/method fungus mushroom innuendo by hinting lens lentil media things in the middle plus more referendum thing to be referred vacuum empty thing Two lists follow, match one item...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
How does rugby provide a focus for South African unity?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How does rugby provide a focus for South African unity?

...change into democracy, and then conquered the world in rugby. South Africa was united, and things looked very promising. This inspired the nation and rugby icons became veritable lobbyists for political change and the normalisation and deracialisation of the society, known locally as transformation. Rugby fields became a virtual Colosseum of dreams. Lack of transformation...
Who will lead Britain out of the European Union
Society, Politics & Law

Who will lead Britain out of the European Union

...change people’s minds rather than focusing on getting existing eurosceptics out to vote. And there is evidence to support that approach. British public opinion towards European integration can be summarised as largely indifferent and mostly shallow. That makes it highly erratic. Famously, the 1975 referendum moved opinion from two-thirds in favour of a “No” to...