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Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...de Bondt, 1998). Even within the field of financial economics, there is increasing interest in developing theories of market behaviour which take better account of how people really make decisions (e.g. see Fenton-O'Creevy et al., 2004). One of the leading exponents of this emerging field of behavioural finance, Werner de Bondt, suggests that: For at least forty years...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Moons of our Solar System Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...de force, watch this Waltz Around Saturn video produced by Fabio Di Donato who edited together highlights from the Cassini mission during its orbital tour of Saturn. Turn your sound on, because we think that fitting the pictures to this music was a work of genius. [This is an image taken from the Waltz around Saturn video.] Figure 27 Highlights from the Cassini mission...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...phrase ‘minimally conscious’ to describe those who are sometimes awake and partly aware, who show erratic signs of consciousness so that at one time they might be able to follow a simple instruction and another they might not. In this way, Plum’s yin and Jennett’s yang launched the field of coma science. Even today, however, we’re still arguing over who is...
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Article 15 mins
A modest liking for Liverpool
History & The Arts

A modest liking for Liverpool

...type of the local people was. The poorer classes swarmed along a great part of the tram-line in side streets of a hard, stony look, and what characterized itself to me as a sort of iron squalor seemed to prevail. You cannot anywhere have great prosperity without great adversity, just as you cannot have day without night, and the more Liverpool evidently flourished the...
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Article 10 mins
Newry: Frontier town or border city?
Society, Politics & Law

Newry: Frontier town or border city?

...type. Until the mid-1700s, the Clanrye River had formed the boundary of Newry, wholly within Co. Down, until a new suburb of Newry formed on the Co. Armagh side of the river, known as Ballybot. In an effort to pacify town citizens from both counties, the Town Hall of Newry was built on a bridge crossing the river, straddling the county divide. In 1898, the boundary of...
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Article 15 mins
Non-existent countries
Society, Politics & Law

Non-existent countries

...types of non country. Taiwan is a very interesting case in point that most people I suspect would just think is a normal run-of-the-mill proper country. Um – not quite. UK does not have diplomatic relations with Taiwan. We don’t recognise it as a proper country. Most other countries in the world don’t recognise it. And that’s because in 1971 it was slung out of...
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An introduction to interaction design
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to interaction design

...types on an early version of the Apple II personal computer, released in 1977 As computing technology has developed, the nature of users’ interaction with technology has changed – and the role of interaction design has expanded accordingly. When computers became small and cheap enough to enter the general market, they became ‘personal computers’, such as the Apple...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
EPQs: why give a presentation?
Education & Development

EPQs: why give a presentation?

...phrase you want to use. When you are confident you have the right flow in your content, number your cue cards in sequence. Nervous presenters have been known to drop their cards and scatter them across the floor. If that happens, you’ll want to get them back in order quickly! You don’t have to use cards, of course. You could write your reminders on sheets of paper. Or...
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Article 5 mins