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Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...manages communications for Apopo, tells a story: “I was just in Angola. There’s an area next to a school where a landmine once went off. I was talking to the headmaster and he said if the boys kicked a football into this area they would draw straws as to who would go and get it. None of the boys had been hurt. But when the rats searched the area, they found another...
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Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...managed to avoid her gaze. But she is an excellent teacher, and by the end of the class I have learned a lot about diagnosing elderly patients. Her university work complements her campaigning, because she has also set up a palliative medicine course there. Hundreds of doctors and nurses have now been through the training programme, according to Odontuya – helping to...
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Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...manages hospitals, clinics and emergency rooms across Detroit, Ed Coffey, then the CEO of its Behavioural Health Services, remembers discussing Crossing the Quality Chasm, a report published that year by the US Institute of Medicine that called for sweeping healthcare reforms. The report had triggered a debate about the idea of ‘perfect care’, and Coffey wondered what...
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Assessment in secondary science
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary science

...manageable. One way to achieve this is to design assessment tasks or activities that students can do independently. This will leave you free to focus on the students that you are unsure about. No matter what the purpose or situation, if formative assessment is to promote learning, you need to: be aware of the intended learning objectives look for evidence or devise...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Exploring Religion in London
History & The Arts

Exploring Religion in London

...manager, Maurice Bitton. Transcript Exploring Religion in London Bevis Marks Synagogue Narrator: Welcome to the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, in Bevis Marks here in the centre of London. The oldest surviving synagogue in this country, that is still in daily use. Our synagogue was built in 1701. It was built during the rebuilding of the city of London, after the great...
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Video 30 mins
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...manage aggregate demand. In the USA, during the 1960s, the phrase ‘We are all Keynesians now’ (Friedman, 1965) was even used by the right-wing president, Richard Nixon. In the UK, successive Conservative and Labour Chancellors of the Exchequer (Hugh Gaitskell and Rab Butler) were arguably so close to each other that their names were combined in an approach called...
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Level 2: Intermediate 28 hrs
Water for life
Nature & Environment

Water for life

...manageable by introducing a larger unit to measure the volumes. The unit most commonly used for this purpose is the cubic kilometre, abbreviated to km3, which is the volume of a cube with sides 1 km long. One cubic kilometre is equivalent to 1000 000 000 000 litres, or one million million litres, which can be demonstrated as follows. To discover how many litres (each of...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...managed properly, thermal stresses can lead to distortions and cracks. However, useful engineering components and devices can be constructed that take advantage of 'gradual' thermal sensitivity. Box 4 Homogeneous body, uniform ΔT, external constraints The classic example of the buckled railway line (Figure 6a) is an easy geometry to calculate. [Figure 6] Figure 6 (a)...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs