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Galaxies, stars and planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Galaxies, stars and planets

...centre of a galaxy. This section introduces some key ideas about orbital motion. People sometimes wonder what keeps the Moon in orbit and stops it crashing to the Earth. This is a perfectly reasonable question to ask. If you lift an object above the Earth's surface and let it go, it falls to the ground, pulled down by the force of gravity. Why doesn't this happen to the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...research on the financial behaviour and decision making of both professionals, such as investment bank traders, and the rest of us in the everyday world. Organisational behaviour, at least as I practise it, draws on insights from psychology, sociology, and economics, and sometimes from wider disciplines, such as philosophy and history, to understand the behaviour of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Digital forensics
Science, Maths & Technology

Digital forensics

...researcher is satisfied with the test results, they may be published in an appropriate scientific journal, thereby adding to the pool of scientific knowledge. Before publication takes place, the work will be peer-reviewed for flaws (and originality). It is also the case that, at any one time, there is a dominant view of how things work, within which most scientific...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
The obscure history of the ‘virgin’s disease’ that could be cured with sex
History & The Arts

The obscure history of the ‘virgin’s disease’ that could be cured with sex

...children. A few writers thought that even particularly effeminate men could succumb to the disease. But for most the experience of sexual intercourse did the job. Or, to look at it another way, if this set of common symptoms appeared in a girl of marriageable age, the only diagnosis possible was “the disease of virgins”. [The Conversation] Transcript Helen King,...
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Article 10 mins
Swept away: Brighton's Chain Pier collapses during a storm
History & The Arts

Swept away: Brighton's Chain Pier collapses during a storm

...children and, indeed, persons of all ages, were to be seen throughout the day swarming to the foreshore and carrying away the more portable fragments of timber that the sea cast up. Scores upon scores of persons also were seeking for nails and small portions of wood to retain as mementoes of the The Chain Pier. - originally published by The Leeds Mercury, 7th December 1896...
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Article 5 mins
How have family budgets changed in sixty years?
Money & Business

How have family budgets changed in sixty years?

...children down to the age of seven how they spend their pocket money! We realise that this is more of a commitment than any of our other household surveys, which like the LCFS are all voluntary, which is why we continue to be indebted to all the members of the 375,000 households that have taken part. This article was originally published on the ONS website under an Open...
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Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...for the American Society for Cybernetics. He is currently developing a transdisciplinary appreciation of the need for ocean, earth, water, self-health knowing and systems literacy. Peter resides with his wife Kristina Bishop in Northern Virginia where they juggle work, play, travel and interest in the lives of six children and their spouses and fourteen grandchildren....
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Invasion of the killer pumpkins
Money & Business

Invasion of the killer pumpkins

...children, and increasingly ourselves, dress up as the dead and the damned to consume this tacky stuff once a year, often at the hands of complete strangers against a faint but persistent aura of menace? Some thank American television for this cultural import alongside baseball hats and junior proms. Others might go further, explaining it as the eruption of some deep...
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