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Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...management of such patients in general, and supported a decision to continue to treat Kate aggressively,” recalls Menon. Kate eventually surfaced from her ordeal, six months after the initial diagnosis. She described how she was indeed sometimes aware of herself and her surroundings. Each day she woke up, she fell asleep, but like all such patients she could not respond...
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Article 15 mins
An introduction to crime and criminology
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to crime and criminology

...manage to criticise it. Art is different. If you label something as art, people understand it better and end up accepting your ideas because it's art. MAN: It is art, but the difference is permission. [MUSIC PLAYING] BETHANY: I mean living in this neighbourhood, we expect to see sort of art popping up all over the place. And it brings me joy when I see the colourful art....
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?
Education & Development

Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?

...project in the Babylab at Birkbeck, University of London. It’s the first ever scientific study investigating how children aged six months to three years are using touchscreen devices and how this influences their cognitive, brain and social development. In a second experiment, Max sits in a curtained-off booth facing a screen that displays a 15-minute loop of video that...
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Article 5 mins
More or Less: interview with Tim Harford
Science, Maths & Technology

More or Less: interview with Tim Harford

...managed to identify well this guy is the same age as the governor, has the same number of kids as the governor, lives on the same street as the governor, it’s probably the governor. So that I think has slowed down the open data movement. And these are serious things we need to wrestle with. But I wouldn’t write it off either. So much of what we do now on More or Less...
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Audio 20 mins
Supporting university students with a mental health condition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting university students with a mental health condition

...manager, followed by colleagues, family and friends, as well as external professional colleagues, Student Support Team, Tutor Forum, Togetherall (online Mental Health support service) and in-house training sessions. Most tutors said that they would welcome more training to be better prepared to support students with a MHC. Training suggestions were: ‘… anxiety,...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Presenting information
Digital & Computing

Presenting information

...manageable form. I will start by showing how a table can be used to summarise information. Then, I will look at how percentages can be used to compare different quantities. Finally, I will explore some of the ways in which information can be presented in a graphical form...Presenting information: 1 2.2 Reading a table - Tables are a common way of presenting information....
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK
History & The Arts

The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK

...managed to prevent Liberal candidates from winning. [The black and white photograph shows Ada Nield Chew in hat and day-dress animatedly addressing a crowd during the Crewe by-election of 1912. She is standing high up on the back of a hansom cab and is surrounded by a throng of working-class men, whose cloth caps are very evident, and young working-class boys, again...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...project, as the following costly example demonstrates: In 1999, a NASA Mars Orbiter spacecraft was destroyed on arrival in the Martian atmosphere at a loss of $125 million. An inquiry established that the flight system software on board the Orbiter was written to calculate thruster performance in metric newtons (N), but mission control on earth was inputting course...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs