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Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision

...statistic that the actual quantity of wildlife on the planet has dropped by 50% since the 1970s. I mean that’s actually quite staggering and I don’t think you would know from watching television that that has taken place. My gut reaction is it should be reflected, it has to be reflected, but where it’s reflected I don’t know. In the same way that the feature film...
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General Election 2015 - 79Rewind
Society, Politics & Law

General Election 2015 - 79Rewind

...Statistics tweaks the contents of the baskets used to track inflation. What gets added or dropped tells how our tastes and habits change as a nation. Read this article to see a comparison of 2004-2014. Learn about the Phillips' Curve in by watching this animation below - 60 Second Adventures in Economics - The Phillips Curve. You can download this entire series for free...
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Estimating the cost of equity
Money & Business

Estimating the cost of equity

...statistics/ home/ statistics.htm. For details on the different FTSE indices, go to www.jrank.org/ finance/ pages/ 2031/ FTSE-Indexes.html. The overall or average rate of return on shares or equities can be measured by the rate of return on a stock market index. This is a number designed to reflect the returns (dividends plus capital gains or losses) of shares that are...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
An introduction to energy resources
Nature & Environment

An introduction to energy resources

...Statistical Review of World Energy 2004 Figure 1.5b Adapted from NASA material Figure 1.8 Martin Bond/Science Photo Library Figure 1.12 NASA's Earth Observatory Figure 1.13b © David Sanger Photography/Alamy Figure 1.13c Steve Allen/Science Photo Library The information in this book has been obtained from a wide range of sources, too numerous to mention. However, specific...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...statistics of very large populations of identical particles. That means we may expect to see it when discussing several million million million atoms. In this context the argument of the exponential is usually some particular, fixed energy E divided by a thermal energy kT, and it is negative: This form of the exponential is very important in the context of thermally...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Physical and mental health for young children
Education & Development

Physical and mental health for young children

...statistic from that report that's really stark and brings to life what that meant for babies and children at that time. It told us that babies born to unskilled fathers had death rates four to five times higher than for babies of professional fathers. And the causes were still the same for those inequalities in health. They were caused by poor living conditions,...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...statistics were not always reliable even into the 1980s and even today, waste data are often described as ‘estimated’. Data are difficult to collect and may not be collected every year, so while it may be several years old, it could still be the best available. Not only does the amount of waste to be collected and managed need to be ascertained, but its composition...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...statistics: the analysis and interpretation of data. Climate science is often about searching for subtle shifts in the data...Session 1: What is ‘engineering the climate’?: 2.2 Probability of different types of weather - One analogy that reflects the idea that climate is a range of different types of weather is: … weather’s how you choose an outfit, climate’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs