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Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...language. RH: Another thing that makes people sceptical is the pause. Climate scientists predicted very confidently that the climate would continue to warm, but it hasn't, at least not surface temperatures anyway. TS: Well, here you have to really take a very careful look and not gloss over the details that the climate system offers in terms of information from all...
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DEBATE: Can we trust bankers to help the national recovery?
Money & Business

DEBATE: Can we trust bankers to help the national recovery?

With all the new controls in place, can we now trust the bankers to help the national recovery? Share your views here...Read the academic articles below, then share your views by voting in our poll and using the comments facility. Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey , the world's leading questionnaire tool.
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Hans Rosling: How to compare countries using statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Hans Rosling: How to compare countries using statistics

Statistician magician, the late Hans Rosling shows you how to collate and animate the data of different countries in these short videos that depict our changing world...Transcript All videos shown were produced by Wingspan Productions Watch the videos in the Hans Rosling series Learn more about data with our free materials
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DEBATE: Should we have a smaller financial services sector?
Health, Sports & Psychology

DEBATE: Should we have a smaller financial services sector?

Do you think we should have a smaller financial services sector? Vote in our poll and leave your comments...Read the academic articles below, then share your views by voting in our poll and using the comments facility. Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey , the world's leading questionnaire tool.
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Troy Story: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
History & The Arts

Troy Story: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey

Interested in Greek myths? We've condensed the epic narrative of Homer's poems the Iliad and the Odyssey into short animations voiced by the dulcet tones of Don Warrington...The Iliad Transcript The Iliad - who's who? The Odyssey Transcript The Odyssey - Who's who? More FREE learning on Greek gods and the classical world Take it further with The Open University
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Shopping for citizenship: A conversation at the Citizenshop
Society, Politics & Law

Shopping for citizenship: A conversation at the Citizenshop

...language or culture. Basically, those who can afford it, can ‘buy’ citizenship. Here is what Nele had to say about this ‘citizenship by investment’ industry: Transcript Agnes then asked Nele how these programmes work: Transcript Citizenship and migration have been very much on the political agenda, but we haven’t really heard much debate about the ‘citizenship...
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Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots
Education & Development

Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots

...language...As with so much else in our cultural heritage, the origins of braille lie in Ancient Greece. The historian and scholar Polybius invented what became known to cryptographers (code makers) as the Polybius Square, a system for encoding letters using a 5x5 grid. Polybius square with the modern English alphabet 1 2 3 4 5 1 A B C D E 2 F G H I/J K 3 L M N O P 4 Q R S...
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How are social workers portrayed in the media?
Languages

How are social workers portrayed in the media?

...language surrounding the profession of social work in the media by carrying out two studies. In the first study, I looked at over 700 UK national newspaper articles which mentioned ‘social worker’, published in 3 months in the middle of 2019. I then read and classified each one as a ‘neutral’, ‘positive’ or ‘negative’ portrayal of the social worker....
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