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How can education contribute to sustainability?
Education & Development

How can education contribute to sustainability?

...system respond? How might you expect your local education system to respond given your awareness of constraints on it? How can local education systems respond to the wider, global environmental challenges? How do your responses to these questions connect with any of the three models for education introduced in week 2 of the course? [Photo 75901918 © Stepan Popov |...
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Speed of Arctic changes defies scientists
Nature & Environment

Speed of Arctic changes defies scientists

...system. “The rate of change is challenging the current scientific capacity to monitor and predict what is becoming a journey into uncharted territory.” The WMO is the United Nations’ main agency responsible for weather, climate and water. Its president, David Grimes, said: “The Arctic is a principal, global driver of the climate system and is undergoing an...
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Training for endurance in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for endurance in sport and fitness

...systems need to continually supply the working muscles with oxygen to supply fuel (via the aerobic energy system) for the length of the climb and prevent fatigue (cardiorespiratory endurance). Muscles will need to continually contract in order to provide propulsion, strength and maintain technique (muscular strength endurance). Using a combination of cardiorespiratory and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Electronic applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Electronic applications

...systems pervade everything we do; review some basic ideas of signal processing, control and communications; and allow you to use a digital filter to remove Gaussian noise from a signal...Electronics is fundamental to modern life. Take for example this free course, Electronic applications. An interactive website with videos and interactive software will show how electronic...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
An introduction to design engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to design engineering

...systems and services created to support how we live. Design comes from the ability to think creatively – to be able to imagine ‘what if …?’ and come up with something that didn’t exist before. Some of the greatest human achievements have come from creative design engineering, allowing the realisation of some truly remarkable change in our world. Design...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Pick a side and make a difference: Why you should vote this Thursday
Society, Politics & Law

Pick a side and make a difference: Why you should vote this Thursday

...system employed. Robert Dahl’s excellent book On Democracy points out that democratic systems rely on voters and votes being equal. Each voter has one vote and each vote is equal to any other vote. Nobody’s vote counts more than anybody elses and nobody has more votes than any other citizen. Ordinary citizens have exactly the same say as the rich and powerful. The...
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From old English to modern English
History & The Arts

From old English to modern English

...system. OE was mostly written using the Latin alphabet, supplemented by a few Germanic runic letters to represent sounds not found in Latin e.g. þ, which represented the th sounds in thin or this. (A relic of þ survives as y in modern signs like Ye Olde Tea Shoppe.) The later Viking settlements in many parts of the British Isles also resulted in substantial borrowing of...
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Live long and prosper?
Science, Maths & Technology

Live long and prosper?

...systems are by no means all like our own familiar Solar System. We know that the Sun is orbited by four close-in, rocky planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and ars), then there is an asteroid belt containing millions of small rocky bodies. Further out still are four gas-giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune) each accompanied by dozens of rocky moons, and then another...
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