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10 billion dollar companies that didn't exist 10 years ago
Money & Business

10 billion dollar companies that didn't exist 10 years ago

...health-concious market. One of the market leaders is Fitbit with its range of activity trackers. The Fitbit tracker, the company’s most popular product, is a bracelet that counts your steps, works out what calories you have burned, monitors your sleep and connects wirelessly with your computer and mobile. You can even 'taunt' your friends by connecting your Fitbit to...
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A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast
OpenLearn Ireland

A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast

...health and socio-economic disadvantage and exclusion. [A photograph of our guest, Aoife Moore.]Guest: Aoife Moore, Irish Journalist Aoife Moore is political correspondent for the Sunday Times Ireland and Irish Journalist of the Year 2021. Born in Derry city during the peace process, she has dedicated much of her career focusing on social justice and women’s issues as...
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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?

...Health Organization’s International Agency for Cancer Research in Lyon. Hainaut was custodian of a database of all the different mutations in the p53 gene recorded in the medical literature, and the types of cancer with which each mutation was associated. Aware from his records of the extreme rarity of Li–Fraumeni syndrome, he was fascinated by Achatz’s case notes....
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Play, learning and the brain
Education & Development

Play, learning and the brain

...Health and physical development: in recent years, childhood obesity rates around the world have increased. To combat this many countries are recommending outdoor activity for all children. Physical play outdoors provides important opportunities for the development and refinement of locomotor skills as well as fine motor skill. Vigorous physical activity increases lung...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Exploring criminology: problem-solving courts
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring criminology: problem-solving courts

...public purse as regards the outcomes of those matters. So very different, night and day. Audio 3 Si JENNY SWIFT: I am Jenny Swift, and I'm the team manager of the Milton Keynes in Bucks FDAC. And I've been there for about six years. And before that, I was a child protection social worker for about 10 years. I did frontline child protection for about 10 years, all of that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...health. Depending on the severity and duration of the inundation, these different aspects of damage may exacerbate each other (such as in cases where large scale flooding makes roads impassable, making it difficult to rescue people or get healthcare to them). On the other hand, flooding may be predictable, expected and harmless. If there is an adequate flood plain to take...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...Publications Ltd. Woolf’s diaries catalogue the raids and the everyday privations that war imposed while she carried on writing fiction and biography. She observed on 29 May 1940 that ‘one can’t plan, any more, a long book’ (Bell, 1984, p.289) and Between the Acts is the shortest of her novels, set just before the outbreak of war...Exploring Virginia Woolf’s...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...publication but it shows the difficulty of representing changes in three dimensions using only two dimensions! Figure 4 shows a dive by an adult female Weddell seal. The dive lasted for 10 minutes 30 seconds, and the animal travelled a total of 760 m. About mid-way through the dive, at point C, the video footage revealed that the seal attacked a large Antarctic cod,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs