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Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty
Money & Business

Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty

...write successful with a question mark. Yes, it will be successful, is a 0.75 chance, and therefore, no, it won't be successful, has a 0.25 chance. If it's unsuccessful, the launch will be halted at a cost of 1 million pounds. So let's write that here. -1 million pounds and re-launched in a year's time. So it'll come down here to 1 year, and we'll join those lined up in a...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts

...Write down an example of a good you imagine being produced with a labour intensive technique, and a good you imagine produced with a capital intensive technique. Discussion Fruit picking can be done using a labour intensive technique when the farm owner employs a large amount of seasonal workers to pick up the fruit. These days, fruit picking can also be done using...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...Write your response in the box below. In the next section, you will check your privilege...Week 1: What do we mean by a lottery of birth?: 2 Thinking point: check your privilege - The phrase ‘check your privilege’ is often used on social media to remind others that the life they were born into came with specific privileges. It is also used to remind others that every...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Does prison work?
Society, Politics & Law

Does prison work?

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Course image: Richard Cassan in Flickr made available under Creative Commons...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this unit: Course image: James Gathany/Center for Disease Control and Prevention Figure 1a: Bùi...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Fake news during COVID-19
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news during COVID-19

...Writing on her blog ScienceIntegrityDigest, Twitter, and PubPeer, she is an expert in detecting inappropriately duplicated or manipulated photographic images and plagiarised text in biomedical literature. Her investigative work has been featured in many international portals, including Nature News, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Interview Kaustubh: The...
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Article 10 mins
Tracing your family history
History & The Arts

Tracing your family history

...write down everything you know about yourself and your immediate family, concentrating on names, dates of birth, marriage and death, and where these events took place - geography plays an important part in tracing your family tree, as people have a habit of moving around the country. Next, talk to your family, especially the older generations who should be able to...
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Article 10 mins
‘A little bit of kindness’: migrant nurses in the Scottish NHS
Society, Politics & Law

‘A little bit of kindness’: migrant nurses in the Scottish NHS

...Writing migrants back into NHS history: addressing a ‘collective amnesia’ and its policy implications’, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol. 103 (10): 392-396. ‘The Long History of Migrant Workers in the NHS, Immigration News UK, April 9, 2020: https://immigrationnews.co.uk/history-of-overseas-workers-in-the-nhs/ UNISON Scotland: Overseas Nurses Network:...
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Article 5 mins