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Diary of a Mars operations day
Science, Maths & Technology

Diary of a Mars operations day

...health and put together all the sequences that make the rover measure and image the targets that we scientists pick out as interesting and of scientific importance. I am a mineralogist by training, and thus I am part of the science team, more specifically, the science team that looks at the geology and mineralogy investigations that the rover carries out. Our science team...
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Article 15 mins
Leo Tolstoy on King Lear
History & The Arts

Leo Tolstoy on King Lear

...mental condition of Gloucester and his sons and sympathize with them, than it is to do so into that of Lear and his daughters. In the fourth scene, the banished Kent, so disguised that Lear does not recognize him, presents himself to Lear, who is already staying with Goneril. Lear asks who he is, to which Kent answers, one doesn't know why, in a tone quite inappropriate...
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Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...health warnings with regard to concepts: they ‘see concepts as sites of contestation’, observing that they are likely to have ‘multiple meanings that cannot be reduced to a single straightforward definition’. They observe that ‘Geography is a discipline that involves creating concepts in response to changes in the natural world’. Equally in a dynamic subject...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...mental models. These are epistemological issues. The bases for knowing about, and acting in, a situation is different to that encountered in most other units with a ‘T’ (technology) code. Each of these will be discussed briefly below...Managing complexity: a systems approach – introduction: 2.2 The nature of systems thinking and systems practice - There are no...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
Introduction to operations management
Money & Business

Introduction to operations management

...health. It’s due to give more details on developments later this afternoon. But what does this scandal tell us about the food we eat, where it comes from, and how it gets here? BBC NEWS REPORTER Horse meat found in burgers sold in British and Irish supermarkets. ORE ODUBA It’s the food scandal that’s been going off for a month. And, since traces of horse DNA were...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
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Money & Business

Risk management

...health and safety risks, a bank its credit risks and a hospital the risks to patient safety. But doing a good job of managing one set of risks does not mean that the organisation has a good grip on managing all of its risks: it does not mean that all of the risks to the ‘enterprise’ are being managed. Increasingly organisations have recognised the value of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom
Society, Politics & Law

Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom

...mental leap from the evidence to a further fact using tacit information that is personal to them. For example, if in a stabbing case a suspect is later found with the victim’s blood on his hands, one juror might infer that the suspect was responsible for the assault. But another juror might infer that the suspect only went to help the victim after somebody else stabbed...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The many guises of the emperor Augustus
History & The Arts

The many guises of the emperor Augustus

...wellbeing of his people, and to keep an eye on their behaviour in terms of morality (e.g. taking steps against things like adultery, extravagance and impiety). Augustus used his own family as a model for the Roman people to follow and was the first Roman statesman to portray not just himself but also his family members in public art. Being a family man, along with the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs