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Panic buying and how to stop it
Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic buying and how to stop it

...health workers and the elderly and vulnerable can shop. However, this might also amplify the perception of scarcity. The perception that a norm has been violated is based on subjective judgement. Accurately assessing whether the availability of food and other items is threatened is difficult to do without more information. Images shared by trustworthy friends on social...
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Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...public lecture in Oxford in the early part, I think from memory it was January of 2006. So we’d been working for three or four months and I then stood up and shared with academic communities in the world, ‘This is where we’re going.’ Lots of working papers if you look at the acknowledgements in the front of the Stern Review, tremendous interaction with – RH: But...
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Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author
History & The Arts

Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author

...health Susannah Cullen died in 1796 (Lovejoy, 2006). Her death was followed by Equiano who died in London in March 1797 and their eldest daughter Anna Maria after she contracted measles age four years in July 1797 (Downs, 2020). [Sculpture of Olaudah Equiano, the Queen's House, Greenwich]Sculpture of Olaudah Equiano (Photo by ©JRennocks)Show description The commemorative...
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Forth Road Bridge
History & The Arts

Forth Road Bridge

...public transport alternatives and reducing the number of single occupancy cars and HGVs. You may wish to share these thoughts with fellow learners by posting your ideas in the Comments section below. Click to view the video extract (8 minutes). NEIL OLIVER Edinburgh reaches over the Firth of Forth with two great bridges. While the famously robust Victorian rail bridge is...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...public expenditure on energy research and if you correlate it with oil prices, miraculously the correlation is almost one-to-one. RH: How surprising! JS: Well, I don’t think the link is absolutely direct, but you know given that prices have fallen again, you see the sense… there’s more fossil fuels coming onto energy markets with the shale...
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Teaching citizenship: work and the economy
Education & Development

Teaching citizenship: work and the economy

...public life. Crick report, 1998 In the DfES document Making Sense of Citizenship: A CPD Handbook a distinction is drawn between acts citizenship and status citizenship (Chapter 1: ‘Spelling it Out’, p. 2). Acts citizenship involves behaviour. The issue this raises for companies is how to ensure that they conform to their obligations and responsibilities in respect of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Lying and politics: a brief primer
Society, Politics & Law

Lying and politics: a brief primer

...public at a meeting or on the radio television or whatever it is. So it's not quite the same thing as lying specifically in the House of Commons. So that I would that's where I would draw a distinction. And of course it can sometimes become a grey area because you can say something what you mean but which perhaps you're not able to fulfil. Now this is where the the...
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What is the Minamata Convention on Mercury and what does it mean?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is the Minamata Convention on Mercury and what does it mean?

...health risks and environmental damage from mercury pollution came into effect last month (16 August), when the so-called Minamata Convention on Mercury entered into force. The 74 countries which have become parties to the convention so far — out of 128 that have signed — are now legally bound to take measures towards eliminating new sources of mercury, reducing its...
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