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Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...technology in these ways is nuts. I mean, the first iPhone was expensive too; if you bought Apple stock, you were a smart man. RH: Do you have Apple stock? BM: I don’t. RH: Do you have Tesla stock or Solar City stock? BM: No, I’m a writer, remember? RH: You’re not such a smart man? BM: I’m a writer; I’m not a rich man. RH: Let me ask you...
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Library of Alexandria
History & The Arts

Library of Alexandria

...technology needed to get the job done. “Brewster is a visionary who looks at things differently,” says Carole Moore, chief librarian at the University of Toronto. “He is able to imagine doing things that everyone else thinks are impossible. But then he does them.” Mr Kahle is an unostentatious millionaire who does not “wear his money on clothes”, as one...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Ben Van Beurden - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Ben Van Beurden - Stories of Change

...Technology in the Netherlands. Ben’s career in Shell spans both Upstream and Downstream activities. He has held a number of operational and commercial roles, including some 10 years in the LNG business, and a variety of positions in Downstream. In January 2005, Ben became Vice President, Manufacturing Excellence, based in Houston, USA. In this role he was responsible...
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Energy in buildings
Nature & Environment

Energy in buildings

...technology is described later in section 3.4. [Described image] Figure 26 (a) The Brunck Estate in Ludwigshafen, Germany (b) Laying blocks of foam insulation on a roof Monitoring showed that the net space heating energy use fell by a factor of seven from 210 kWh per square metre of floor area per year to only 30 kWh m2 yr–1. This is equivalent to 3 litres of heating oil...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...education and for social welfare. (Gilliat-Ray, 2010, p. 182f) The East London Mosque has sought to expand its ability to serve a variety of functions for its community. It added a building to host more community services, the London Muslim Centre, in 2004. It completed building the Maryam Centre, making specific provision for women, in 2013. The London Muslim Centre and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...Technology – Code of Practice for Information Security Management sets out the management responsibility for developing an appropriate security policy and the regular auditing of systems. BS 7799–2 (2002) Information Security Management Systems – Specification with Guidance for Use gives a standard specification for building, operating, maintaining and improving an...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...educational/moral content. Might this have something to do with the status of these cloths? Then reflect on the nature of proverbs and what these might suggest to western writers about the tradition of cloth-making in Ghana.)...Textiles in Ghana: 5.1 History of kente - Activity 17 Once you’ve watched the video, make a few notes on what you learnt about the history of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study

...technology. Now that seems to be perfectly acceptable – that he could have worn glasses and achieved a similar sort of effect. Why is that alright but an enhancement beyond that is not okay? MICHAEL SANDEL Right beyond safety and fairness my main objection to the use of performance enhancing genetic therapies, for example, has to do with the worry that it will corrupt...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs