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Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...mentally tosses a coin, and makes for one pile or the other. Having been successful and the food pile remaining constant, the ant has no reason to change its behaviour. However, it is known that an ant, having successfully found a source of food, will pass on the good news to others and try to persuade them to follow it by a chemical secretion. Successful behaviour is...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...health hazards or social injustices. In practice, few energy sources come close to these ideals, but renewable energy sources are generally more sustainable than fossil or nuclear fuels: they are essentially inexhaustible, and their use usually involves fewer health hazards and much lower emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants. So, where do renewable energies...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...Health Good points Bad points Beliefs, outlooks Positives Negatives Comment Consider your answers in the table you filled in. How will they affect the kind of opportunities open to you? Are there other things you need to consider? For example, do you need to work near your home? Could you move to a new area? Could you work from home? Have you caring responsibilities, or...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...health and safety with hot objects. OK, so let's see. And the weight's gone down to 98 grams. So I'll record that. After one minute, 98 grams. Now I'll pop it back in and give it another minute. [DING] That's another minute up, so I'll do another measurement. It now weighs, oh, 84 grams. I'm just going to give it one more minute and see if the weight continues to fall....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
A short introduction to the English language
Languages

A short introduction to the English language

...Health Service would be included. The very next day, he said, oh, no, it wouldn’t be. Now, is that a lie or what is it? I mean, it gets almost beyond belief. TONY THORNE: In fact, and I can’t judge the truth of this of course, but The Washington Post and other US journalists have tried to count the number of lies that they claim that Donald Trump has told since he...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introduction to ecosystems
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to ecosystems

...health of the forest depends on fungus – decaying branches and leaf litter are rich with nutrients, and fungi can ferry these back to living plants. Unearthing the woodwide web NARRATOR Luxurious timber in the luxuriant rain forest. Economics inextricably bound with ecology. Now, biologists are unearthing a new set of relationships fundamental to the forest. Lessons...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Scottish courts and the law

...Mental Health Tribunal and in 2005 we took over responsibility for hearing appeals in licensing matters from sheriffs. Sheriffs principal also hear fatal accident inquiries where the circumstances of the case raise significant issues of public interest. At lunchtime today I am meeting the area procurator fiscal to discuss two forthcoming inquiries which will be held in my...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...health and defended. It is engineering that puts all this in place. All the material things – from containers of shower gel to satellites – that enable us to live our everyday life are the products of engineering (Figure 1). [Described image] Figure 1 Engineers make all the cool things in the world! (a) Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge; (b) Hubble Space...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs