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What is The Wilson Doctrine? The one minute guide
Society, Politics & Law

What is The Wilson Doctrine? The one minute guide

...account and I felt that it was right to lay down the policy of no tapping of the telephones of Members of Parliament. This promise - The Wilson Doctrine - was subsequently extended to include members of the House of Lords, and in 1997 Tony Blair stated that it applied to all electonic communications (i.e. email as well). The doctrine doesn't cover members of other elected...
Week 5 Civilisations: The debate
History & The Arts

Week 5 Civilisations: The debate

...account of the interdependencies that bound Europe to the rest of the world. In this episode Simon Schama looks at a wide range of art, architecture, and material culture, to think about how different types of ‘Renaissances’ were taking part all over the world, creating some astonishing works of art and architecture. This was a time when objects, commodities, ideas,...
The Speed of Extinct Organisms
Nature & Environment

The Speed of Extinct Organisms

...account for factors such as bending knees. Was T. rex actually a slow coach? An alternative approach for estimating speed in extinct organisms has recently been applied to T. rex. This involves calculating the strength and size of muscles in the legs relative to the size of the animal. For instance, this showed that T. rex probably could not run because the muscles needed...
Introducing professional practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing professional practice

...account medical, psychological and social factors A Culture of Blame: Changing Climate of Social Work Patrick Eyre, a social worker talks about 'the blame culture' in social work A Culture of Blame: Lack of Trust and a negative image Patrick talks about how the lack of a climate of trust has had a specific impact on child protection A Culture of Blame: The way forward...
Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour
Money & Business

Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour

...accounts to conceal the initial source of the money. Integration: making the money available to the criminal from what seem to be legitimate sources. [Described image] Figure 4 Money laundering cycle Money laundering has some negative impacts on society. Activity 3 will help you understand the three biggest impacts of money laundering. Activity 3 The impact of money...
What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?
History & The Arts

What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?

...accounts of far-flung lands were widely read during the Enlightenment, serving, for example, as important sources for Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert’s seminalEncyclopédie. The contents of the letters were various, but the Jesuits’ mission being what it was, it is perhaps not surprising that religion figured prominently, with many accounts of what would...
Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...account (which pays interest) or share holdings (which usually pay dividends). By contrast, non-financial assets are those assets – usually tangible, physical items – that do not normally provide a flow of income, such as property, jewellery or an expensive work of art. Usually in order to obtain money from these assets you would have to sell them. Assets can be...
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Does nanotechnology offer a better way of dealing with electronic waste?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does nanotechnology offer a better way of dealing with electronic waste?

...United Nations University, the world produced 42 million tonnes of e-waste in 2014, with Asia accounting for 16 million tonnes. Currently e-waste is dumped in landfills, incinerated or treated with chemicals to recover valuable materials, but these are not regarded as environment-friendly processes. This article was originally published by SciDevNet under a CC-BY licence...