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A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham
History & The Arts

A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham

...history from the time of William the Conqueror, who first fancied a castle where it stands, down to the present day. The memory of such successive guests as the Empress Matilda and Henry II. her son, King John, Henry III., Edwards I., II., and III., Queen Philippa, Henry VI., and James I., and Charles I., and Edward VII., abides in the guidebook, and may be summoned from...
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Does counting calories work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does counting calories work?

...history of nutrition science. Wilbur Atwater, a Department of Agriculture scientist, began by measuring the calories contained in more than 4,000 foods. Then he fed those foods to volunteers and collected their faeces, which he incinerated in a bomb calorimeter. After subtracting the energy measured in the faeces from that in the food, he arrived at the Atwater values,...
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IT in everyday life
Science, Maths & Technology

IT in everyday life

...history. […] Network based life will affect home too. A selection of screens hanging on walls may display works of art, static or moving. Or they may act as virtual fish tanks, or virtual windows looking out onto a Bahamas beach. Or you may have a cup of coffee with a distant friend, with life sized video images. The coffee may well be made and brought to you by a...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
An introduction to geology
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to geology

...history as if they took place over the course of a single day. MARCUS BADGER: The Earth is around 4.6 billion years old. That’s 4,600,000,000 years. That’s such a huge number that it’s difficult to appreciate how long that really is. If we think about that in terms of a single 24-hour day, then the moon was formed at about seven minutes past midnight. That’s about...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Learning from sport burnout and overtraining Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...family and employers, and on social media. Badges are a great motivation, helping you to reach the end of the course. Gaining a badge often boosts confidence in the skills and abilities that underpin successful study. So, completing this course could encourage you to think about taking other courses. ['Learning from sport burnout and overtraining' digital
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...history of manipulating the environment to fit our needs will do. For a fuller discussion I have picked four examples: the Pont du Gard, a beautiful Roman bridge in the south of France; a disposable ballpoint pen; muskets; and the plant for making the chemical ammonia. This set will enlighten us concerning varied aspects of engineers' practice. Apart from their intrinsic...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...history and part of G at another. For example, investment in railways in the 1920s would be categorised as part of private investment (I ), whereas after railway nationalisation in the 1940s such investment would be categorised as part of government spending (G ). Keynes made the point that expenditure by the government on roads was equivalent to private investment in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 28 hrs
Systems diagramming
Digital & Computing

Systems diagramming

...family trees while the second (Figure 6) shows who lives in which house. I certainly found that looking at these two diagrams made things a lot clearer for me, in particular the relationships between two different sets of connected things. Of course, these are the ways some chose to represent the situation and the diagrams do not include all the information given in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs