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Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius
History & The Arts

Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius

...public affairs. It was a city famous for its financial and political shrewdness and its exceptional craft skills. These factors gave the people of Florence a renewed confidence and belief in their city. The famous banking family, the Medicis, seized power in 1434, marking the beginning fifty year rule. With their wealth and influence, the Medicis encouraged a vibrant...
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Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...public and those in positions of authority. Managers need not collect or disseminate every item themselves, but must retain authority and integrity by ensuring the information they handle is correct...Managing and managing people: 4.3.3 Decisional roles - Mintzberg argues that making decisions is the most crucial part of any managerial activity. He identifies four roles...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?
Science, Maths & Technology

We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?

...health effects of pet ownership, they began to find all sorts of beneficial consequences, physical as well as mental. Though somewhat debated, these include reductions in distress, anxiety, loneliness and depression, as well as a predictable increase in exercise. Pets seem to reduce cardiovascular risk factors such as serum triglyceride and high blood pressure. The...
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The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide
Health, Sports & Psychology

The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide

...public opinion and has repeatedly become a pawn in international relations. History shows us that governments have used international sports events to pursue their own interests rather than understanding, friendship and peace among nations (Kissoudi, 2008). Sporting victories for a national team can improve and reinforce superiority of its political regime – for example...
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Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...public discourse and political debates sometimes treat the concepts of ‘welfare’ and ‘work’ as separate spheres of activity, or even binary opposites: welfare or work. This can occur in different ways, for example: an explicit connection is drawn between welfare and work, as though they were directly dependent upon one another: welfare and work, work for welfare,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...publications; he holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Versailles and has received several awards for his work. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and a Foreign Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. www.climate.unibe.ch/stocker stocker@climate.unibe.ch © The Open University Transcript Stories of Change project Thomas Stocker interview...
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Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...public broadcaster made a decision that it would support us. I think we just weren’t on their radar, except when one of the major banks in Canada said that it was no longer going to buy commercial space on the CBC, because of one of our logging shows, or something like that. It created a kerfuffle, but we, I guess, in the end did get the support that we needed. It’s a...
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Approaches to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

Approaches to software development

...public domain (in this case, the failure became a series of headline stories). Example 6 In 1992, the London ambulance service commissioned a computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system for getting ambulances and their crews to reported incidents. It was intended to replace an existing paper-based system. There were two notable failures of the new system in November 1992 that...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs