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A journey through two Englands
History & The Arts

A journey through two Englands

...solid part of the nation. The passenger on the box could see that this was the district of protuberant optimists, sure that old England was the best of all possible countries, and that if there were any facts which had not fallen under their own observation, they were facts not worth observing: the district of clean little market-towns without manufactures, of fat...
Five pillars of ageing well
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five pillars of ageing well

...liquids we drink every day) will affect further changes and speed of these changes on the metabolic rate, liver and kidney function, muscle function, nervous system and overall feeling of wellbeing and mobility. When we don’t drink enough: • Metabolic rate decreases – slowing further down metabolic processes in our body (how fast we process food, drugs/medication we...
Transport and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Transport and Sustainability

...Liquid fuels produced from oil made up 97% of the final transport energy demand. Electricity made up less than 1%. [Described image] Figure 1: UK primary and final energy use, 2018 The UK produces oil but its oil reserves have been falling. Peak UK oil production was in 1999 and it has fallen since then. The UK both imports and exports oil and its products. It became a...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?
Education & Development

Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?

...solid research. “The app marketplace is a digital Wild West,” says Mike Levine, Chief Executive of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center in New York, which has analysed hundreds of children’s literacy apps in a series of reports. “Most of the apps labelled as educational provide no research-based advice or guidance… Less than 10 per cent of the apps we looked at had any...
EPQs: designing your research question
Education & Development

EPQs: designing your research question

...solid one that’s worth your while answering. Comments on Ann’s question Ann received feedback such as: which social medium would you look at? is one social medium more worth looking at; is there one that is more used by young people? is this movement different to other campaigns? are there any other social movements you could compare it to? you haven't mentioned time...
Introduction to finite element analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to finite element analysis

...solid, is modelled as being hypothetically subdivided into an assembly of small parts called elements – ‘finite elements’. The word ‘finite’ is used to describe the limited, or finite, number of degrees of freedom used to model the behaviour of each element. The elements are assumed to be connected to one another, but only at interconnected joints, known as...
Recording music and sound
History & The Arts

Recording music and sound

...solid grounding in them will help you understand the wide range of recording techniques currently in use...This free course, Recording music and sound, provides an historical introduction to music and sound recording in the creative industries and offers some guidance about making your own recordings. Many of the processes that have been developed and the issues that have...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
What can Earth tell us about Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can Earth tell us about Mars?

...liquid water and its thin atmosphere means high levels of ultra-violet (UV) radiation reach the surface. This UV radiation reacts with the perchlorates present on Mars’s surface to create chemicals that kill bacteria. Research done by the UK Centre for Astrobiology (Wadsworth and Cockell, 2017) showed these chemicals can even kill very hardy spore-forming bacteria that...