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Lawrence Breen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lawrence Breen - Earth in Vision

...communication with producers and the camera folk would happen. I was going incidental sometimes, but still the drive is, “what is the animal doing and how is it doing it and what can we say about it?” Why the BBC NHU has so little archive of the changing environment Survival had a… a production company in Norwich, had an approach to filmmaking where they said,...
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Discovering development management
Money & Business

Discovering development management

...communicate judgements...Discovering development management: 2 Opening up development management - In his 1996 paper, ‘What is development management?’ Alan Thomas was concerned to establish whether or not there is a distinctive field that can be labelled ‘development management’. To achieve this he looked at the two terms – ‘development’ and
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...communities while Jack Simmons, H.J. Dyos and Asa Briggs developed further sub-fields or disciplines, including transport history and urban history. They were all united by a tradition of examining the environment around them and interpreting it as material evidence of the past. In the words of Asa Briggs: ‘There is no substitute for knowing a city: reading about it is...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Getting started with German 3
Languages

Getting started with German 3

...communication short courses. You can study a wide range of language and language related subjects with us anywhere in the world, in any time zone, whatever your motivation – leisure, professional development or academic. It’s the one stop shop for engaging with languages, professional communication and intercultural dialogue. Our short courses allow us to be agile and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...La trahison des images (The Treachery of Images). The part of reality for which one creates a model or representation doesn’t need to be a static object such as a pipe or dictionary. It can also be a process or system which changes over time. In that case, the model will not only have to capture any enduring properties of interest, but also any changes in time that are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Brexit: What’s this fine mess you’ve gotten us into? (Apologies to Laurel and Hardy)
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit: What’s this fine mess you’ve gotten us into? (Apologies to Laurel and Hardy)

...Community (EEC) in 1973 there were more Europhiles than Europhobes in the parliamentary party but this did not last; it came to a head initially through Margaret Thatcher with the saga of the Maastricht treaty and the subsequent flight from the exchange rate mechanism in 1992. From then on it has been a running sore and a significant cause of the rise of the Labour Party...
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How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...communities of these food webs below ground that make terrestrial ecosystems work,” says Diana Wall, a soil ecologist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, who also chairs the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative, an international scientific collaboration. “If they were just soil and carbon and no life, we’d be on Mars, where you have soil, but not life in...
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Influence of temperament
Education & Development

Influence of temperament

...communication, and responds appropriately. It might be expected that caregiver personality differences would thus be found to be associated with infant attachment security, but here again few direct effects have been found (Egeland and Farber, 1984). What has been found, however, is that the combination of child and caregiver individual characteristics does predict...
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