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World in transition: Managing Resources
Nature & Environment

World in transition: Managing Resources

...simple technologies, and facilitate the sharing of ideas through education. In the Andean mountains, scarce supplies of water and agricultural challenges give rise to conflict; but the changes engineered by development agencies can start to show a way out of poverty. Meanwhile, Tanzanian rural schoolchildren are instrumental in bringing about positive long-term change...
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Audio 1 hr 35 mins
Business Bursts: Failure
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Failure

...simple lack of cashflow, that the firm doesn’t have enough money to pay ongoing bills or wages, and we've seen quite a lot of that with the credit crunch, where it’s been more difficult for firms to, or more expensive for them, to acquire cashflow. Another factor in business failure is where the organisation has failed to secure a market, so it might have a good idea...
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Video 5 mins
Bayesian statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Bayesian statistics

...simple likelihood functions describe the role of the posterior distribution, the likelihood function and the posterior distribution in Bayesian inference about a parameter Ɵ...Bayesian statistics: Link to course PDF - Click here to access the course materials...Bayesian statistics: Conclusion - Following completion of this free OpenLearn course, Bayesian statistics, as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
How to read a rock
Science, Maths & Technology

How to read a rock

...simple word, just made up of the elements silicon (Si) and oxygen (O). Transcript The mineral garnet is much more complicated and can have different spellings. The basic formula for garnet is Metal3Al2(SiO4)3, where the metal can be manganese (Mn), iron (Fe), magnesium (Mg) or calcium (Ca). The spelling can get even more complicated as a garnet crystal could contain two...
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Article 10 mins
Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study

...simple definition of doping, which is appropriate for this type of publication. He sets out the different approaches that people take to discussing doping in an accessible way and uses terms like ‘another claim’ or ‘they claim’, i.e. these are positions people take rather than absolute fact. It is noticeable that people place emphasis on different perspectives on...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
How the ZX Spectrum and ZX81 shaped Frank Sidebottom
History & The Arts

How the ZX Spectrum and ZX81 shaped Frank Sidebottom

...code recorded onto cassette for playback – would sometimes be self-published and sold through adverts in computer magazines. The more successful coders might gain a lucrative distribution deal with a leading games company such as Bug-Byte, Mastertronic or Virgin, and see their work in shops nationwide. They were often seen as young geeks, and this was sometimes true....
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Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer
Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...code for the guidance and control systems of the in-flight command and lunar modules of the Apollo missions (McMillan 2015; Spicer 2017). In the process, Hamilton and her team established the nuts and bolts of modern software engineering, resulting in the creation of what she termed “ultra-reliable software” for the Apollo 11 mission. This included priority displays...
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UK must balance food farming impacts
Nature & Environment

UK must balance food farming impacts

...simple: take more land out of food production, restore natural habitats, and allow forests to grow again. If, in the next 35 years, the UK increased forest cover from 12% to 30%, and surrendered 700,000 hectares to revert to peat bog, that would be enough to meet government ambitions to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions by 80%. The extra helping of woodland and...
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Article 10 mins