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More or Less: interview with Tim Harford
Science, Maths & Technology

More or Less: interview with Tim Harford

...write it off either. So much of what we do now on More or Less involves our friendly loyal listeners getting data, analysing the data, sending us the results and writing all kinds of interesting things. They might blog about it; they might just email it to us. So there’s lots of good stuff going on. KEVIN MCCONWAY: Yes, that sounds excellent. TIM HARFORD: Compare...
Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?

...writing in 1979 in The Rousing if the Scottish Working Class , was highlighting two key elements of this argument: first, the legacy of John Maclean’s advocacy of a Scottish Workers Republic, which he had developed out of his commitment to supporting the struggle for Irish independence; second, the early 1920s support for Scottish Home Rule which developed within the...
Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...Writing in support of using the notion of wellbeing in public policy, Hetan Shah has argued that ‘an incredible amount is spent on our “health” service, but most of it focuses on dealing with physical symptoms of sickness’ and that ‘we need to reconfigure the purpose of the system in order to promote wellbeing’ (Shah, 2005, p. 39). Other writers have argued...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Astronomy with an online telescope Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy with an online telescope

...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: © Alan Cayless Every effort has been made to contact copyright...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
What is politics?
Society, Politics & Law

What is politics?

...writing of fiction or the production of a film or piece of visual art. Figure 10 Gay marriage advocates demonstrate in front of the US courthouse in Norfolk, Virginia, 2014 Given the example you just worked through, you might be tempted to think that politics (whether broadly or narrowly defined) is all about critically engaging with or challenging the status quo – the...
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...writing open-ended fieldnotes in which what is observed is written down in plain and concrete language, and/or through audio- or video-recordings that are subsequently transcribed. Data from interviews that are relatively unstructured, in other words that do not involve asking a set of pre-specified questions, even less offering informants a choice from pre-specified...
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...writing, state-of-the-art commercial systems operate at up to 40 Gbaud) or by effects in the fibre that cause pulses to spread as they propagate along the fibre. Pulse spreading limits the maximum signalling rate because the more that pulses spread the more inter-symbol interference (ISI) you can get, and so the further apart in time symbols must be to prevent them...
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...Write a couple of sentences as to why, in your view, the slideshow presents an example of international relations? There’s no single correct answer to this first question, so just write a couple of sentences to summarise your initial thoughts. Discussion You might have noted the involvement of multiple states (countries); the way issues like trade and investment reach...