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How Bitcoin works
Digital & Computing

How Bitcoin works

...account, your wallet application will then generate a pair of public encryption keys – one private (known only to you) and one public (copies of which will be shared with other Bitcoin users). You are then ready to go. Assume both of us are Bitcoin users and I want to send some Bitcoins to you. My Bitcoin application performs the transaction by creating a message...
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Eid al-Adha
History & The Arts

Eid al-Adha

...accounts are not identical, the Qur’an and the Hebrew Bible (the Christian Old Testament) agree that God tested Abraham’s faith by demanding that he sacrifice one of his sons (Muslims usually understand this son to have been Ismail, not Isaac as in the account in Genesis). According to Muslim tradition Satan tried three times to persuade Abraham not to obey God’s...
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The man behind Matilda – what Roald Dahl was really like
History & The Arts

The man behind Matilda – what Roald Dahl was really like

...account of Dahl’s life with support from his first wife Patricia Neal in 1994. Treglown rummaged in Dahl’s personal life and revealed several shocking details including his extensive sexual affairs with many women while working as a spy in the US, and his fraudulent company set up to avoid paying tax. He also reaffirmed Dahl’s negative personality quirks such as his...
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The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?
History & The Arts

The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?

...account that might help us to make sense of the Cambridge Group’s recent figures. Their findings might even re-ignite an old debate, about the economic consequences of the Reformation. The reign of Elizabeth was not long after England’s monasteries were dissolved; and, after the swift changes under Henry, Edward and Mary, it could be seen as the start of a lasting...
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‘Lydios logos’: the story of Croesus
History & The Arts

‘Lydios logos’: the story of Croesus

...account of Croesus’ downfall (and accompanying path towards self-knowledge) is often called the ‘Lydios logos’. 'Logos' is impossible to translate precisely into English. It can suggest ‘word’, ‘argument’ or an ‘account’ (as in: ‘In the beginning was the word [logos]’, John 1.1). 'Logos' derives from the verb 'legein', ‘to speak’, and implies...
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Reducing the carbon footprint of on-premises IT
Nature & Environment

Reducing the carbon footprint of on-premises IT

...account for time they are on idle over weekends or holiday periods, then this number can become unfathomably high. Turned up to the max Vampire devices are responsible for digital carbon emissions from the wasted energy use of things on standby. Another common area of wasted energy use is in devices that are shipped with unnecessarily high default settings – LCD monitor...
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Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...account in order to explain how the social environment makes its mark on the child’s gender development and how the child plays an important role in directing his or her own gender development. Cognitive processes The theories covered in this section all relate to aspects of children’s thinking that are central to their gender development. They focus on the ways in...
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Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...accounts of social structures, we picked out these claims. Work-based identities are formed by the interaction of individuals with economic structures which generate a repertoire of roles, symbols and conventions that individuals take up and identify with. Individual control over work-based identities are structured, patterned and constrained by the pre-existing...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs