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OpenMinds: Why visit Mars and what we might find there?
Miscellaneous

OpenMinds: Why visit Mars and what we might find there?

...year running. [Northern Ireland Science Festival Logo][Copyrighted image Icon][space science masters image]Study space science at postgraduate level to prepare for managing major missions like those to Mars: MSc in Space Science and Technology Study space science at undergraduate level: Questions in science - introductory level Planetary science and the search for life...
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Past-Time Lover: Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof

...managed to learn a few with the help of my father. He taught me French and German. Later on, I learnt some English and even got into some Lithuanian and Italian. Alongside modern languages, I also studied classical languages such as Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, while at school. I am, in fact, passionate about languages! Where I grew up, on the Polish-Russian border,...
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Sporting women in the media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sporting women in the media

...Introduction - The aim of this free course, Sporting women in the media, is to explore how and why gender discrimination and gender inequalities exist in sport and to investigate some of the implications. There might be some biological differences which means that males and females don’t compete against each other in all sports, but these do not explain or justify why...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Health and safety in the laboratory and field
Science, Maths & Technology

Health and safety in the laboratory and field

...Introduction - This course is designed to introduce you to the concepts of health and safety within a science laboratory or in the field. There are a number of legal requirements that must be adhered to before carrying out work in a laboratory. One of these is the necessity to carry out risk assessments on the chemical and biological agents that are to be used as part of...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Does the US have a legal obligation to accept refugees?
Society, Politics & Law

Does the US have a legal obligation to accept refugees?

...manage to reach the US will have to have their asylum claims examined. The duty not to return a person to a state where they may face torture or other serious harms is absolute under the UN’s Convention Against Torture. The US has signed and ratified this convention. However, with the likely increase in asylum detention of people crossing the US-Mexico border that will...
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Will more money for the NHS deliver for midwife services?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will more money for the NHS deliver for midwife services?

...manage demand on health services over the long run. Combined with the massive cuts expected to local authority budgets, with further impacts on the provision of social care, the ability to manage demand and to deliver the integration between local government and the NHS that is central to the transformation of healthcare is being further undermined. The TUC-led All...
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Can science make you a better leader?
Money & Business

Can science make you a better leader?

...managers, only 21% rated themselves as high on purposefulness. When we broke this down further, we found that 35% of leaders overall said that they had a strong vision for their team and were committed to a wide range of stakeholders. Just 8% said they had a strong personal moral compass. When we asked employees, only 40% said their manager behaved ethically. This...
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How is Italy reinventing the co-op?
Money & Business

How is Italy reinventing the co-op?

...Managing local libraries, cultural centers and archives; Promoting ecotourism in Emilia-Romagna; Launching communications campaigns for green and social justice causes; Running a radio station and publishing a newspaper and website devoted to local news and culture. “The idea of the radio station was to give voice to the voiceless,” says station manager Giusi...
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