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General Election 2015 - 79Rewind
Society, Politics & Law

General Election 2015 - 79Rewind

...history of politicians being trained. PAULINE MELVILLE Margaret Thatcher had voice lessons… People can be taught to mirror their clients’ body language, to look empathetic or to have power walking. EVAN DAVIS Power walking? PAULINE MELVILLE Yes, walk with confidence to present themselves with confidence. Actually that reminds me of seeing Blair and Bush power walking...
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Activity 5 mins
Diary of a Mars operations day
Science, Maths & Technology

Diary of a Mars operations day

...history, the fate of its water, and the environments that it hosted 4 billion years ago. As I walk back into the warmth of my house, I think about the fact that we soon may have three active rovers and an active lander on Mars – at the same time. And what they might find… This article was originally published on the AstrobiologyOU website. Banner image credit:...
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Article 15 mins
“Beagán ar bheagán: Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth” - Athbheochan na Gaeilge ó thuaidh i ré Chomhaontú Aoine an Chéasta
Languages

“Beagán ar bheagán: Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth” - Athbheochan na Gaeilge ó thuaidh i ré Chomhaontú Aoine an Chéasta

...history and recent revival...Bhí sé aitheanta i measc mór-aidhmeanna Chomhaontú Aoine an Chéasta ‘ré úr comhionannais’ a thabhairt isteach do phobail ó thuaidh, agus mar chuid de sin tugadh coimitmintí sonracha do phobal na Gaeilge sa chomhaontú féin. Chun an fhorbairt atá déanta ó 1998 ar aghaidh a mheas agus a scagadh mar is cuí, áfach, de réir na...
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Article 5 mins
Approaches to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

Approaches to software development

...history of individuals attempting to develop more complex systems – so-called heroic programming – where success has been less certain. Sometimes the circumstances resulting from poor planning lead to a situation where it is the only way out to achieve a piece of workable software. However there are systems that are so large and complex, such as those that monitor and...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Organisations and the financial system
Money & Business

Organisations and the financial system

...family, friends or their own savings. These types of funding will not be appropriate to sustain the complex business plans of established companies. Understanding the basic sources of finance and their features is essential for successful financial decision making and business success, since identifying the best and most appropriate available sources is a vital step in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...family Bovidae smaller than sheep or goats, but some deer (family Cervidae) are less than a tenth of that size as adults. Some tropical deer, notably species of mouse deer Tragulus, weigh only 1–2 kg, well within the range of size of mammals that can become torpid, but none is known to do so. One reason might be that substantial changes in body temperature would kill...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...family life, are viewed as beyond the direct control of the state and its institutions. (Source: adapted from Bromley, 2001) Nation states have long been viewed as the basic building block of authoritative decision making. If politics is considered as decision making at the level of society as a whole – the activity that delivers collectively binding decisions for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...history of humanity, has ever uttered this exact sentence before me today. Yet we all understand what it means. We must therefore all possess some machinery for making up new meanings out of smaller parts in real time. This is what is known as the generative capacity of language; the ability to make new meanings by recombining units. The vervet system is not generative,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs