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Energy in buildings
Nature & Environment

Energy in buildings

...careful attention to blocking all the unwanted air leakage paths shown in Figure 17, while maintaining the essential ones. In new construction attention to detail is important. It is easy to leave air gaps around windows and where pipes penetrate walls. Sheet plastic vapour barriers are often built into walls, especially in timber-framed construction. For really good...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
What can philosophy tell us about race?
History & The Arts

What can philosophy tell us about race?

...care about when we’re trying to run a society. SOPHIE WILLIAMS: Race has never been something that I don’t have to think about. It’s put on to us. ANGELA SAINI: When you look at the history and origins of this idea, you start to see it for what it really is, which is the manifestation of power. TEXT ON SCREEN The term ‘race’ first emerged in the English language...
Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...care.) Thus, naturalists deny the existence of supernatural entities and powers and assume that everything that happens is causally explicable by reference to scientific principles and laws. Some naturalists also make a further assumption. They assume that natural phenomena form a hierarchy and that higher-level ones can be explained by reference to more basic ones, right...
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...careful look at the text, in Reading 1 (open this in a new tab or window so you can find your way back to the course easily): Reading 1 Make a note of any words or phrases you find difficult to understand. There are three things that may help. Firstly, you will find that quite a lot of words have an apostrophe in them – this is what’s called a contraction, and marks...
Facilitating group discussions
Money & Business

Facilitating group discussions

...careful. There’d always be people wanting to abuse the system… booking it up for set times every week. GRACE Well there are certain meetings that happen every week. Our team get together on a Friday morning to get up to speed with what’s happened that week. Would you see that as inappropriate? LISA Let’s open it out to the group. What would constitute taking...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...careful of drawing conclusions – 15 rolls of a dice actually make up a small sample size, unless the loading of the die is very strong. Try again: roll the two dice another 15 times. How do the extra rolls change the histograms? Answer They should make the heights of the bars for a fair die more equal in height and the heights of the bars for a loaded die more unequal....
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...caring approach to all persons at all levels connected with the problem or system(s) involved.’ Paul Warren: ‘Systems thinking is important for me because it provides a formal recognised framework to explain organisational events, and other happenings, which hitherto had to be explained by vague notions of “common sense”.’ Sarah Smith: ‘Systems thinking is...
An introduction to geology
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to geology

...careful when you go out and find your own rocks to identify later in the course...Week 1: Building stone: 1.3 Rock textures - Due to how the three sorts of rock are formed, they appear quite different when you look at them closely. All rocks are formed of smaller parts, called ‘grains’. [Described image] Figure 1.4 From left to right, igneous, metamorphic and...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs