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US Election 2016: A last week reading list
Society, Politics & Law

US Election 2016: A last week reading list

...technologies, namely social media, in this way tend to consistently participate more in civic and political activities. Therefore, from a political standpoint at least, feel free to binge-watch another episode or series. Odds are that you’ll still participate politically and probably to a greater extent than others who stream less or simply “watch” the news on...
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The Industrial Revolution and Time
History & The Arts

The Industrial Revolution and Time

...technological innovations that shaped the design and production of Yankee clocks led, eventually, to the millions of watches annually produced by the great firms of Waltham, Elgin, Hamilton and Waterbury. The latter’s price prompted the immortal advertising slogan “The watch that made the dollar famous”. The Industrial Revolution had not only changed our attitude...
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Cyfrifo eich ôl troed carbon
Nature & Environment

Cyfrifo eich ôl troed carbon

...technologies (eg, electric cars), or by changing their current consumption patterns (eg, by eating less meat). 2021 Progress Report to Parliament, Pwyllgor y DU ar Newid Hinsawdd, t.97 Ond dim ond pe bai'r rhan fwyaf o bobl yn lleihau eu holion troed yn sylweddol, yn hytrach na lleiafrif o ‘bobl wyrdd’, y byddai lleihad o'r fath yn digwydd. Ond nid yw diffyg...
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Writing your proposal and preparing for your interview
Education & Development

Writing your proposal and preparing for your interview

...technology affect learners in schools’ is not well defined or clear enough. These decisions may change once you are engaged in your research, but at the proposal stage you will need to outline a plan of research that is new, coherent and manageable. The Introduction: The first part of your proposal might start by introducing the broad context to the discipline and...
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Volkswagen scandal will send costly ripples through auto industry
Money & Business

Volkswagen scandal will send costly ripples through auto industry

...technology has long held a fuel economy advantage over gasoline engines, yet older ones were much dirtier, emitting 500 parts per million of sulfur, a key source of particulate emissions. “Clean diesel” engines of the last decade are designed to emit 97% less sulfur emissions, and yet still get as much as 30% better fuel economy than comparable gasoline-powered...
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How to read a rock
Science, Maths & Technology

How to read a rock

...technology our modern society relies on is full of metals such as gold, platinum, nickel and tantalum that occur in trace amounts in rocks In language, if we put letters together, we form words. In geology, if we put elements together, we form minerals. A mineral is a naturally occurring inorganic substance having an orderly internal structure and characteristic chemical...
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Studying medicine bilingually
Health, Sports & Psychology

Studying medicine bilingually

...education then Welsh medium education throughout Wales becomes more valuable and gives a higher status to the Welsh language as well. It gives people the confidence to speak it out of work and out of an academic environment. It’s been very rewarding so far, two years in, teaching a degree of the medical curriculum through the medium of Welsh. We’ve had small group...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...educated the people of the region about the seriousness of the waste. From the effects of the nuclear bomb and the atomic bomb, and despite all this, we started messaging France to ask for their rights to retire, but the French were ducking and every time they argued something, for example, come to France and every lawyer or some personally. And he has various diseases...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs