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The science of nuclear energy
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of nuclear energy

...community has learned much about radioactivity, but not all of these ideas are well understood by the wider community. Activity 2 Consider the following questions: Can you contrast the attitude to radioactivity a hundred years ago to our attitude today? Do you think that people are better informed today?...Week 1: Into the atom: 1.3 Nuclear processes - [This is an image...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The law-making process in England and Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The law-making process in England and Wales

...communicating in a modern way. SARAH POLFREMAN: Audio recordings for radio started in the 1960s, but television came along in 1989, and we haven’t really looked back since. It’s very important that Parliament is seen to be democratic, that the public is able to see what is going on. MIKE GREENWOOD: So the cameras and microphones can come in, but can the public? SARAH...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...community only be considered, or should rising sea levels that affect communities in (say) Asia be taken into account? If this question can be solved there are several ways of determining costs such as: equating the damage cost to the cost of capturing and storing the carbon dioxide generated equating a given emission to a given rise in sea level and setting the cost...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...community. SAQ 4 If the soft-bodied fossils of the Burgess Shale are taken away, all that remains is a typical Cambrian assemblage of hard-bodied organisms. Why is this important to bear in mind when trying to interpret other Cambrian fossil assemblages? Answer The other Cambrian assemblages may also have been dominated by soft-bodied animals, even if the only fossils...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An introduction to electronics
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to electronics

...communicate and investigate. ARMANDO MARINO The internet can connect us to friends and relatives anywhere on the planet. JEFF JOHNSON Computer-aided design processes have advanced many fields of engineering. TIM DRYSDALE Medical technology has benefited from 3D imaging techniques that see safely inside the body using light, sound and magnetic fields. BERNIE CLARK...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...community through her own efforts to educate herself in palliative care. It began in 2001, when she studied palliative medicine in Poland, which was ahead of Mongolia in developing its own hospice network. Today, she is increasingly in demand to provide her own palliative care training, particularly in Russian-speaking former Soviet states. She has recently returned from...
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Article 15 mins
History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...communities, 1695-1870 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007). Rosalind Crone, Katie Halsey and Shafquat Towheed, ‘Examining the evidence of reading: three examples from the Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945’, in Bonnie Gunzenhauser, Reading in History: New methodologies from the Anglo-American Tradition (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010). Miriam Dobson and Benjamin...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Motivation and factors affecting motivation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Motivation and factors affecting motivation

...communicate with other people. You're a young child, and I'm sure he wanted to say things, that he just couldn't say because he couldn't put the words together at that time. FABRICE MUAMBA [INAUDIBLE] almost every single day in school and in different classes. And I was always willing to learn, because I just felt like if I want to live here for a long time, then I might...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs