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Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...out of what economists call a liquidity trap? When interest rates have gone as low as the Bank of England feels able to take them, then it has lost control of the economy. That is the situation right now. The only duty of the chancellor in that situation is to give the Bank of England back control through a fiscal stimulus – something he has not done. If he did do this,...
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Article 5 mins
Egyptian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Egyptian mathematics

...out what things the Egyptologist has done. Do you yet feel in a position to begin to understand what the Egyptian scribe was doing? (Do not worry if your answer to the last question is ‘no’!) Discussion You should have been able to notice, just from the look of the page, that it has three sections. The top one is a hand-written copy of the papyrus text itself, while...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...out the centre's website. The centre, generously funded by True Potential LLP, has a mission to develop teaching and undertake research to help improve public financial capability. This course is intended for those with an interest in developing their personal financial skills to make good decisions when managing their finances and buying financial products. The course...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes

...out using their oyster card in the London Underground and bus system. Water companies monitor household level water use, of course. Energy companies look at electricity use and so on. So there's a lot of big data already being collected in a lot of different places now. The data in a small city can also come from sensors in the built environment. So these are sensors that...
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Video 10 mins
The Science of Fear
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Science of Fear

...out, but by having a go, we may begin to understand more about our own fears and phobias. Darwin and Fear In his wonderful book 'The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals', Charles Darwin tries to explain the evolutionary advantage of the reactions we have to various situations, like those of grief, anxiety, helplessness, surprise and fear. He compares our...
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Article 15 mins
The mother of the American Athens
History & The Arts

The mother of the American Athens

...out some scene associated with American saints or heroes. We traversed the region that George William Curtis' people came from, hard by Roxburgh, and Eliot's, the Apostle to the Indians; again we skirted the Ralph Waldo Emerson country, with its big market town of Bishop's Stortford; and beyond Ely, where we stopped for the Cathedral and a luncheon, not unworthy of it, at...
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Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change

...out of its system, not principally for climate reasons but for air pollution reasons. Fossil fuels are both climate pollutants but they are also the main cause of localised air pollution and China’s cities are choking under diesel from cars and coal from nearby coal-fired power stations and China’s air quality is terrible, it has awful health effects. Many millions of...
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Ratio, proportion and percentages
Science, Maths & Technology

Ratio, proportion and percentages

...out the price per gram for each. The large packet will cost £1.85 for 450 g. This is or 0.411 p per gram. The New extra large packet will cost £2.35 for 625 g. This is or 0.376 p per gram. Obviously the new extra large pack is the better bargain. (But the extra large package is 37 cm tall (about 13˝). Unluckily it might not fit in the kitchen cupboard.) Activity 4...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs