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Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...care if you want to call them alarming scientists or alarmist scientists, what I’m saying is – RH: One is an insult and the other isn’t, you know? BP: I don’t see this as an insult. RH: Well, to call somebody alarmist is an insult. BP: What’s the difference between portraying an alarming scenario and being called an alarmist? RH: The difference is one...
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Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...careful experiments that can be checked by repeating them. As time goes on, scientific knowledge steadily progresses. Reflection point What views of the nature science do you hold? Do you agree with the popular view given by Reiss? Is science context- and culture-free? Or is scientific knowledge dependent on its cultural and social location? Are you an inductivist or a...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Squares, roots and powers
Science, Maths & Technology

Squares, roots and powers

...care when doing so. Use the brackets if in doubt. Calculating by hand gives, for example: (−9)2 = −9 × −9 = 81 However, keying in −9 and then squaring will give −81 on many scientific and graphics calculators. Why? They calculate exactly what you have asked for, i.e. −92. Since 92 is 81, −92 is −81. The number 9 is squared first, to give 81, and then made...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Defnyddio gwaith gwirfoddol i gamu ymlaen yn y farchnad swyddi
Money & Business

Defnyddio gwaith gwirfoddol i gamu ymlaen yn y farchnad swyddi

...Care a'r RSPCA. Mae elusennau eraill fel CSV yn darparu ystod o weithgareddau i ddewis o'u plith, er enghraifft, rhoi cymorth i deulu sydd mewn perygl neu helpu mewn ysgol leol. Mae'r rhan fwyaf yn llawn gwybodaeth ac yn hawdd i'w defnyddio. Gallant hefyd ehangu eich gorwelion o ran y math o waith y gallwch ei wneud. Nid yw llawer o bobl byth yn meddwl y tu hwnt i'r...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...caring for the children, and sleeping with the men. As such, men set the agenda of the counterculture, while women tended to occupy more supportive roles, such as accompanying protest marches or distributing leaflets. The marginalised position of women rock and folk musicians mirrors the wider side-lined position of women within the counterculture more generally. As...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Asset allocation in investment
Money & Business

Asset allocation in investment

...care very deeply about wellness. We think that healthy communities are part of sustainability. And then sustainability is part of our own internal operations. Our workforce has values around wellness, balance, environmental issues, and sustainability. So it's really ingrained in everything that we do. BOB BURTON Including, of course, our investment perspective. So when...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Innovation in policing
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation in policing

...careful refinements or modifications made to existing services or processes. These small changes can help them evolve and make them ‘better’ through an evolutionary, rather than revolutionary approach to innovation. As it involves the slow and gradual refinement of what already exists and is known, incremental innovation can often be regarded as a safer option. In...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...care is needed in ascribing a perspective to a group as there is likely to be variation within it). Individuals might in that case come from different geographical locations. The group might be predominantly ‘local’ but the organisation ‘regional’ or ‘national’. However, diagrams can be useful in different ways and Uphoff’s diagram is a valuable prompt for...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs