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Evolution through natural selection
Nature & Environment

Evolution through natural selection

...study in Science...Evolution through natural selection: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand that by biological evolution we mean that many of the organisms that inhabit the Earth today are different from those that inhabited it in the past understand that natural selection is one of several processes that can bring about...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Newry: Frontier town or border city?
Society, Politics & Law

Newry: Frontier town or border city?

...skills base available within Newry and the area’s dependence on fluctuating retail markets. It highlighted the need for a broadening of the area’s commercial activity suggesting the further development of Newry Port and investment in the area’s tourist industry. To the latter end, in 2009, the district council also published a Tourism Review and Strategy which aims...
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Article 15 mins
Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...skilled mathematicians who would decompose the complicated formulae into a series of relatively simple additions or subtractions. The lowest tier of de Prony’s scheme were eighty relatively unskilled workers who actually produced the mathematical tables. So long as they followed the list of additions and subtractions in the correct order (and got the right result), they...
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Article 15 mins
Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach
Society, Politics & Law

Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach

...study in People, Politics & Law...Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: discuss the ways in which children are the victims of violence and the multiple effects that violence has on children, encompassing not only physical pain and injury but also...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Are things changing in world rugby?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are things changing in world rugby?

...skillful Japan, but also Namibia and Romania presenting something of a challenge to the more familiar narrative of the traditionally dominant rugby playing nations. Maybe things are changing in world rugby? [rugby world cup, Thames, Tower bridge] The biggest surprise however, was England, the host nation, being knocked out in the first round, something which hasn’t...
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Article 5 mins
Dying: what’s wellbeing got to do with it?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dying: what’s wellbeing got to do with it?

...skills and governance. Personal wellbeing is a particularly important dimension which we define as how satisfied we are with our lives, our sense that what we do in life is worthwhile, our day-to-day emotional experiences (happiness and anxiety) and our wider mental wellbeing. More broadly, as researched by the What Works Centre for Wellbeing, wellbeing is about ‘how we...
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Article 5 mins
The importance of alternative household arrangements
Society, Politics & Law

The importance of alternative household arrangements

...incomes and people to turn to for support. Finally, as anyone who has done it knows, living together is not easy, and additional challenges often emerge with larger groups of people. Perhaps we could look to these forms of shared living to inform our thinking about relationship skills, conflict resolution, and community building, rather than regarding them with suspicion....
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Article 5 mins
Making young children give everything to football is a bad idea – here’s why
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making young children give everything to football is a bad idea – here’s why

...skills and abilities, such as agility and coordination, that can be transferable to numerous sports. These clubs approach youth football in these ways because the reality is that early specialisation is not the most effective route to the top. Countries whose clubs operate in this way are surely more likely to end up with the better players in the long run. The UK has...
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Article 10 mins