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Everyone Can Learn to Coach! Coaching with the OSCAR Model
Health, Sports & Psychology

Everyone Can Learn to Coach! Coaching with the OSCAR Model

...courses of action as possible, and increases awareness about the consequences of each choice Choices and Consequences: What could you do to start to resolve the situation? What choices do you have? What’s stopping you from doing that now? How far towards your desired outcome would that option take you? What advice would you give to somebody else in your position? What...
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Language of Poverty
Society, Politics & Law

Language of Poverty

...course they are exploiting fissures which exist in working class Briton, if you like. The working class is not a homogenous group of people, it never has been. Traditionally, if we are going to go way back, it was composed of people, for example, who lived in the slums, who lived in early forms of social housing, who were home owners, the Northern working class, the...
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Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company
History & The Arts

Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company

...German naval race had begun). Britain’s rulers were worried that her sickly troops, stunted by the impact of urban poverty, might not be up to the task of defending the empire. They were also anxious about their loyalty. Working-class identity was on the rise with the growth of the Labour Party, militant trade unionism and growing industrial unrest. The empire meant...
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Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...German embryologist called Hans Spemann. He proposed what he called a "fantastical experiment" to remove the nucleus from an egg cell and replace it with a nucleus from another cell. 14 years later in 1952, two American scientists, Robert Briggs and Thomas King attempted this. They used very fine pipettes to suck the nucleus from a frog egg and transfer a nucleus sucked...
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Richard Brock - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Richard Brock - Earth in Vision

...course he went on to make other excellent films, but they never had the impact of that first one, because it was like seeing into a secret. The programmes I worked on… I did work on that series called Look for a long time and they had a studio show, which of course now would look very, very old-fashioned, where Peter Scott interviewed various people, sometimes they had...
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Lying and politics: a brief primer
Society, Politics & Law

Lying and politics: a brief primer

...course it's even more insulting if you actually are lying. Why do we accept the lies why do we not see through them? Tony Thorne But when we're talking about lying euphemisms are very popular because people people who do lie or people who trade in lies never want to admit that they're lying and trying to avoid using the word altogether unless they're accusing someone...
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When should you use a stacked area chart?
Science, Maths & Technology

When should you use a stacked area chart?

...course, but the green swath certainly gets thinner as we move to the right end of the chart. Here’s the data on which the chart is based. COMPANY Q1Y1 Q2Y1 Q3Y1 Q4Y1 Q1Y2 Q2Y2 Blue 10 11 15 25 45 80 Green 15 16 17 18 19 20 Orange 75 73 68 57 36 0 Oh, dear. Green’s market share has been increasing, not decreasing. The discrepancy arises because the chart plots the...
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Week 1 Civilisations: The debate
History & The Arts

Week 1 Civilisations: The debate

...course of the next hour I'll be here to moderate a discussion about the first episode, and we have planned for academics to hold live discussions here after every subsequent episode of Civilisations. Join in the discussion by posting a response in the Comments section below. I'd like to start just by asking what you think of Episode 1 and what your hopes and expectations...
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