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Revision and examinations
Education & Development

Revision and examinations

...work, family, and social life place on you. You can usually successfully work around busy periods, as long as you plan them into your revision schedule. Activity 6 Timing: Allow approximately 20 minutes. Figure 3 shows an example week of a study calendar. Using the headings in bold, make out your own study calendar to begin planning the lead up to your exam. You will need...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list

...social media Olympics", which makes Rio 2016 the second Summer Social Olympics. How have athletes adapted to having direct access to a global audience? Northwestern University's Michelle R Martinelli reports that, while participants are hemmed in by the rules of the International Olympic Committee, those who engage find it can help their performance: Because of the...
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Article 5 mins
Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach
Education & Development

Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach

...worked on the radio and, I suppose, reasonably successfully (I’d worked with Chris Evans for six years)... but I felt towards the end of it – and I'm sure that getting up at 3:45 every morning wasn’t helping my mental state at all – I felt that towards the end of it that I was getting tired and that the challenges of broadcasting were not quite as great as they...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
What is a transformation process? The one minute guide
Money & Business

What is a transformation process? The one minute guide

...works] The conversion of something into something else can be described as a transformation process Sometimes, it's easy to see what has happened - like when a dairy takes milk and makes cheese from it. [How transformation works] Turning the fresh milk into cheese is a transformation process With services, though, it can be harded to imagine, but the principle is the same...
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Article 1 min
Ahmed Hussen's election is another element in Canada's mosaic
Society, Politics & Law

Ahmed Hussen's election is another element in Canada's mosaic

...worked with see this victory as something that inspires them to achieve more.” [Somali street vendor in Downtown Toronto] Part of the mosaic: A Somali street vendor in downtown Toronto Hussen's road to Parliament is a kind of Horatio Alger-in-Canada story (Alger was an American novelist famous for his stories about boys who escape poverty through honesty and hard work)....
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Article 5 mins
Shot peening
Science, Maths & Technology

Shot peening

...working in which compressive stresses are induced in the exposed surface layers of metallic objects by controlled impingement of shot...Examples of motion and fixturing used in work-handling equipment for shot peening [Images to demonstrate 'Shot Peening' - see article ] Manufacture: The equipment used in shot peening is essentially the same as that used in shot blasting,...
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Article 10 mins
DRM explained
Digital & Computing

DRM explained

...works in this area. And that’s exactly what it’s been. I mean encryption is not going to work, DRM is not going to work, you know, it breaks the system, but, you know, it does have the effect of temporarily making it difficult to get something that you want to place a commercial value based on time with. (0’50”) Sony discovered that DRM solutions could cause more...
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Video 5 mins
Sue Edwards: a life dedicated to flora and sustainable development in Ethiopia
Nature & Environment

Sue Edwards: a life dedicated to flora and sustainable development in Ethiopia

...working at the Institute of Agricultural Research and lecturing at Addis Ababa University for many years. Alongside this she worked extensively in a number of grassroot development projects, which in her later career were based at the Institute for Sustainable Development, where she was a director. In her 50 years of dedicated service to Ethiopia and Eritrea, she had made...
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Article 15 hrs 45 mins