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The life of Mama Elouise Edwards
History & The Arts

The life of Mama Elouise Edwards

...system of communal saving based on trust. A group would join together to pool their regular savings. The money was kept by a trusted “banker” and the members took it in turn to have access to the lump sum. This enabled many families to put together the down payment on a house. As Elouise’s husband, Beresford described it: I used to throw what is called ‘pardner’...
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Explainer: how do you read an election poll?
Society, Politics & Law

Explainer: how do you read an election poll?

...think. If you polled 2,000 people instead of 1,000, for instance, then (other things being equal) the margin of error would go down only from about 3% to about 2%. A mug’s game? Much more of a problem is that even a perfect set of poll results wouldn’t tell you the election result. To this extent it stops being like the soup. If you did eat the whole panful, you...
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Using digital tools to save languages
Languages

Using digital tools to save languages

...systems, and their work allows us today to discover many fascinating stories from those cultures. While it is interesting and advantageous to know more than one language, our native language is particularly important, as it is the tool in which we most easily encode and decode our emotions, our stories, and our secrets. If we don’t start documenting languages...
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How to manage the digital-related stress of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to manage the digital-related stress of technology

...think, you could try setting up an auto-reply explaining when you will be checking your emails. This is becoming an increasingly common practice that people are using to manage their wellbeing. 4: Audit and curate your social media feed [social media icons] Next time you are on social media, look at the different posts on your feed and be honest with yourself about how...
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Does handing a company on to the children work?
Money & Business

Does handing a company on to the children work?

...think of management as a monitoring technology that allows CEOs to observe their workers’ productivity, it is only profitable to invest in the technology if the CEOs then use the information to discipline the low productivity workers. Thus, the “reputation cost” incurred by family CEOs may act as a constraint on investing in this technology. We find empirical...
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Studying mammals: A winning design
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: A winning design

...systems (which can be difficult to assess) and the number of individuals of a particular species or broader group that exist in total. Mammals have also been around for a long time; LoM [p. 14] mentions the shrew-like 200-million-year-old fossil named Megazostrodon. Rather than shuffling along, with splayed-out limbs in the manner of many reptiles, this animal had limbs...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The formation of exoplanets
Science, Maths & Technology

The formation of exoplanets

...System. These include ‘hot Jupiters’ orbiting very close to their parent star and rocky ‘super Earths’ many times larger than our home planet. In this free course, The formation of exoplanets, you will learn about the challenges connected with efforts to reconcile the observed exoplanet population with current theories on how planets form. The two main theories...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
What does an engineer look like?
Science, Maths & Technology

What does an engineer look like?

...systems engineers behind our #TyphoonJet http://t.co/e5pcFiW4Sa #ILookLikeAnEngineer pic.twitter.com/0fIaSqJ75l — BAE Systems Air (@BAESystemsAir) August 6, 2015 Both the Wellcome Trust and the Aspires Project at King’s College London have found that girls and young women are less likely to see themselves in a career in science. Parents also discourage girls’...
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