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What does scientific evidence tell us about making our homes energy efficient?
Money & Business

What does scientific evidence tell us about making our homes energy efficient?

...solid wall insulation, loft insulation and new glazing, the annual heating costs were reduced by a huge 63%. However, if we are questioned as to how much a particular action or improvement will make to a homeowner, it still “depends”. This is because every home and family is different: some people are home all day, some people are rarely in; others, such as those who...
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Article 5 mins
Blood, bruises and belief: how England’s women’s rugby team embody physical and mental endurance
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blood, bruises and belief: how England’s women’s rugby team embody physical and mental endurance

...solid. None of this happens by accident. It’s the result of years of sustained investment in the women’s game: not just in players, but in the infrastructure around them. Since 2009, nearly £50 million in National Lottery funding has gone into girls’ and women’s rugby. The Impact 25 legacy programme – World Rugby’s initiative to grow the women’s game...
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Section 3: Red Clydeside: Key Issues and Key Events
Society, Politics & Law

Section 3: Red Clydeside: Key Issues and Key Events

...solid periodisation on history is fraught with difficulties: where to begin, where to conclude, and then there are continuities as well as changes throughout the period in question. The ongoing debate around Red Clydeside is no exception to this. While many associate it with the start of the First World War, it is already apparent that its antecedents were laid down...
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Article 15 mins
Why is aggressive female sexuality pathologised on-screen?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is aggressive female sexuality pathologised on-screen?

...solid person or subject but a fluent action that propels the plot and enables others. Women have often been positioned as agents of change, fluid bodies who have suffered from rape and violence. What comes to mind is the violation of Rosemary Woodhouse in Roman Polanski’s disturbing Rosemary’s Baby (1968), in which Mia Farrow plays the unwitting vessel of Satan’s...
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What is polonium - and why is it so dangerous?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is polonium - and why is it so dangerous?

...liquid would appear to glow blue due to the interaction of the alpha particles with the surrounding air. Polonium’s effects The toxicity of radioactive materials is usually measured in terms of the radiation emitted and/or absorbed. However, to compare with more conventional toxins, the median lethal dose (LD50) for 210Po that is usually quoted is about 1μg, or one...
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What effects does mercury have on health and the environment?
Science, Maths & Technology

What effects does mercury have on health and the environment?

...liquid which readily transforms into a vapour. When vaporised, it enters the atmosphere, remains there for a long time, and is circulated globally. How does mercury get into the food chain? Through chemical reaction and precipitation it enters freshwater lakes and rivers, where it accumulates in the sediments at the bottom. Here it is transformed by bacteria into a...
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The science of alcohol Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of alcohol

...solids and liquids. Is a direct indication as to whether or not solids or liquids are acceptable to eat and/or drink. Does not require you to be in contact with the source of the chemical. Helps you identify whether you should be attracted to, or repelled by, the source. Requires you to put something into your mouth. Can be detected at a distance. Cannot be experienced at...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...the internal structure and workings of a typical computer and describes hard and solid state drives in some detail....Introducing computing and IT: Introduction - The profound technological, economic, political and ethical changes brought about by computing and information technology (IT) will affect every one of us. In this course we talk about digital technologies in relation to computing and IT. A fundamental idea is that......
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs