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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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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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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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Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...care of global public health individually. Migration is a massive process where we have the movement of people. So we have a number of ways. We have the movement of goods, of people, across countries which really are fundamental to shaping both prosperity, but also inequality and poverty today. BEN LAMPERT OK, thanks, Rory. And the other thing I really picked up from the...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...careful consideration (reasoned judgement, evidence, values). We realise that intellectual development never stops, and that we are part of the process - thus, knowledge is created by us. Like any change, the journey of intellectual growth can be challenging, risky and painful but it is also extremely rewarding. Reflecting on critical incidents and turning points in our...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Diversity and inclusion in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace

...careful consideration. Activity 4 Reflecting on your organisational learning Timing: Allow about 20 minutes for this activity. Here’s a list of the activities you’ve already completed on your organisational journey: Week 1, Activity 3 – Indirect discrimination Week 1, Activity 5 – Organisation values Week 1, Activity 6 – Researching the benefits Week 3, Activity...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Data and processes in computing
Digital & Computing

Data and processes in computing

...care needs to be taken to ensure that the effects of (repeated) approximations are managed in a way that is well understood. This is especially true for safety critical applications, where people's lives may depend upon the behaviour of the software. However, in this course, we shall largely exclude further consideration of real numbers. Activity 3 If x and y may each...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs