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COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit
Nature & Environment

COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit

...social contract, in which citizens of the six gulf states mostly occupy bureaucratic public sector positions administering an oil-based economy with expatriate labour dominating the non-oil private sector. Tech-fixes, targets and the future How does the UAE plan to cut its own emissions? Adnoc and other international oil companies are banking on select technologies (to...
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Growing the popularity of women’s football in the UK
Health, Sports & Psychology

Growing the popularity of women’s football in the UK

...social and digital media might be personal it is not a substitute for a well-crafted journalist’s story. There are certainly more journalists covering women’s football, but there needs to be even more who can then uncover and cultivate the good stories that cut through the thicket of information and hook people into the game. Perhaps the WSL might even benefit from...
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Resilience: The magic ingredient for Olympians?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Resilience: The magic ingredient for Olympians?

...social support. Athletes with these characteristics were able to positively evaluate a stressor (and their own thoughts about it) and perceive that they were able to cope with the demands placed on them, enabling optimum performance. It could be argued, therefore, that Andy Murray was able to take confidence from his performance in the 2012 Wimbledon final, despite his...
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Ancient ideas: where does the soul go?
History & The Arts

Ancient ideas: where does the soul go?

...social duties. [White-ground lekythos (c.450BC). Hermes guides a departed spirit towards the ferryman Charon.] White-ground lekythos (c.450BC). Hermes guides a departed spirit towards the ferryman Charon. The images above are from the Met Museum's open access / public domain resources. Reincarnation Not all Ancient Greek accounts of the afterlife viewed the Underworld as...
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Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake
Science, Maths & Technology

Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake

...works. Dallas Campbell: Shall we turn it on? Frank Drake: Is it plugged in? Dallas Campbell: I don’t think it is plugged in. Frank Drake: This is the original thing and it was before computers. It’s, this whole thing, in fact at the time of Project Ozma there were no computers. It was all done by eye and ink on paper tapes. Dallas Campbell: So this is the original...
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Microbes – friend or foe?
Nature & Environment

Microbes – friend or foe?

...works (shown schematically in Figure 5), it is first filtered to remove large objects (e.g. condoms, tampons and cigarette ends) which have got into the system. These usually go to a landfill site or incinerator. The remaining material is then allowed to ‘settle’so that much of the solid material drops to the bottom of a tank. This solid material is then removed and...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...work to create tension and conflict? Discussion I think it does. We are told that the girls are aged 16 and 12, but there is no clear sense of the older girl taking charge of the younger one. Questions are asked and not answered immediately, actions are proposed and are met by objections. The prevailing tone is set by Angie's first speech: ‘Wish she was dead’....
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Judicial decision making
Society, Politics & Law

Judicial decision making

...working out from the evidence where the truth lies is generally known as fact-finding. There are some instances when the opposing parties are agreed on the facts, but these are quite rare. Generally, one side makes claims that the other side disagrees with, so the court has first to decide where it thinks the truth lies. A legal dispute often comes to court some time...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs