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Microgravity: living on the International Space Station Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Microgravity: living on the International Space Station

...health care. What about pensions? Finally, there is quality of life. So, what research is now being done that will benefit everyone in their later years? It turns out that the ageing process can be researched in a microgravity environment. Here the context of ‘bed rest’ is used. But how can resting in a bed simulate ageing? And does space travel make astronauts age?...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...health and infrastructure. But changes to average rainfall – whether increased or decreased – are also important. Too little rainfall over a long period, for example, and supplies for drinking, agriculture and hydroelectric power can be at risk. Figure 7 shows the changes that have happened since the middle of the twentieth century. [This global map has coloured cells...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...health. What I think we found since then is the debate has begun to shift so that this kind of more relative view of poverty, the one that accepts that participation is an important part of poverty that it is set according the standards of the society you're living in, has become to be much more widely accepted. Social science, poverty and participation As you continue...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...health care and education. And all these things have much longer-term impacts than just the impact of a shortage of food in the short term. KENNETH SHWEDEL: The impact of the higher prices is felt throughout the expenditures of the poorer Mexicans. And then subsequently, it’s felt in terms of a lower demand for other things within the Mexican economy, which is a real...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
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

...Health Organization, performs strongly on both variables. And in an ideal world, most clinics would use LED microscopy or GeneXpert. But these techniques are expensive and slow. A rat, which costs $6,500 to train, can rattle through 100 samples in 20 minutes. A GeneXpert device, which costs $17,000, takes around two hours to analyse a single sample. It costs about $1 to...
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The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...health warnings. We have deliberately simplified the debate by focusing on social science explanations which are at the extremes of a spectrum. A spectrum that runs from explanations that are overwhelmingly structural to explanations that are overwhelmingly agency driven. Most work in the social sciences falls between the two, trying to strike the right balance between...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
What can philosophy tell us about race?
History & The Arts

What can philosophy tell us about race?

...health, wellbeing, and safety, are hugely dependent on how much money they have. So, money is a straightforward case of something that is socially constructed. And, despite being socially constructed and arising out of human interests and actions, it is not dependent on how single individuals or small groups of individuals perceive it. If someone decides that the ten...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...mental health and development ensuring that children are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes. Every country has legislation and a protocol for child protection. Look for the relevant agencies in your country, for instance: Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs