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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)

...divisions within the Cabinet; at times these appear distinctly stormy. Many decisions have been decisively rejected by the UK second chamber (the House of Lords), and there are threats that returning decisions to the House of Commons could well lead to the fall of the government or at least force the resignation of the prime minister (May). Notice that all this is...
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Article 10 mins
Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease

...division on the graticule equals 0.1 millimetre divided by 7.5, which equals 0.013 millimetres or 13 micrometres. Armed with this information, I can now work out the size of a cell. Let's have another look at that neutrophil, which is at position 4,190, 2,400. I must look at it on the same objective as I used for calibration-- times 20. And you can see that the cell just...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting
Money & Business

Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting

...division, through to decimals, percentages, fractions and negative numbers. You are expected to use a calculator for most of the activities but you are also encouraged to use mental calculations. In the modern world, the assumption is that we use calculators to avoid the tedious process of working out calculations by hand or mentally. The danger, of course, is that you...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...division of types ofland used in the calculations. It shows the main components of the EF, simplified into 'biodiversity', 'built land', 'energy land', 'bioproductive sea' and 'bioproductive land'. A city's EF is enormously larger than the area of the city itself. It has been estimated, for example, that the area of land and sea required to feed continuously, supply...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...divisions of prisoners. The longer sessions are for either ‘Writing, Letters and Arithmetic on slates’ or ‘Reading, spelling, geography and mental arithmetic. The short final session is for issuing library books and concluding.] Figure 7 School lesson plan from Portland Convict Prison, 1850 (‘Second report on Portland Prison’, 1851, p. 33). Discussion You may...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?

...divisions, and that it takes just one rogue cell to start a tumour, the importance of this gene becomes clear. Because of its vital role in quality control, David Lane nicknamed p53 ‘the guardian of the genome’. The gene itself is disabled by mutation or some other faulty mechanism in almost every case of human cancer. Most often this corruption of p53 occurs...
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Article 10 mins
Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022
Society, Politics & Law

Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022

...division of domestic labour within the home. ‘Whether it’s dishwashing, laundry, childcare, reading to kids, physical care, we’re seeing a universal movement toward more egalitarian sharing.’ This was the claim of two observers in The Guardian in 2020, as the grip of the COVID-19 Pandemic across Scotland, the UK and globally, deepened and intensified. Important...
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Article 10 mins
An introduction to music theory
History & The Arts

An introduction to music theory

...division you will come across, the next in frequency to the default division of two, is where a time value is divided into three equal components – say a crotchet divided into three quavers or a minim divided into three crotchets. This is called a triplet. As you can see and hear in Example 15, the crotchet is divided into three triplet quavers, the minim into three...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs