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Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer
Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...courses existed and among her credits, she promoted the term “software engineering” to provide legitimacy to the science and set it on a par with other types of engineering (Cameron 2018). Between 1961 and 1963 Hamilton worked as a programmer on the US Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defence system at MIT’s Lincoln Lab (Mindell 2008) and this is where...
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6 ways to make your voice heard in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

6 ways to make your voice heard in Wales

...course, if you win, that means you will have a direct say in what happens in your local area or, indeed, right across Wales. [6 ways to make your voice heard in Wales headers] You could run for election locally – for example, in community or county council elections – or nationally – for example, in Senedd elections. The next scheduled local elections will be in...
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The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp
Nature & Environment

The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp

...courses and qualifications Earth is a set of interconnected systems where changes in one small thing can have knock-on effects to many othersEverything is connected to everything else. That’s one of the themes that runs through A Perfect Planet. The Earth is a set of interconnected systems where changes in one small thing can have knock-on effects to many others. One of...
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Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class

...course, but British history goes back a bit further than 1979 and the Tory damage to manufacturing and the social fabric of this country he so well describes. The weary victor of the Second World War, admiring ally of the United States in the Cold War and its "terror" successor, and home to the City of London seeking new ways to assert its influence after the formal...
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Signposts for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Signposts for Work

...courses to help develop skills and knowledge towards preparing for new work or enhancing a current career journey...The workplace and our society face many current challenging situations. You may have experienced considerable changes to your own working life, whether as an employer or employee, self-employed or business owner, or currently without paid work. However,...
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Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont
Society, Politics & Law

Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont

...courses. Introducing Nan Zaimaitas by Angela MacGregor I first met Nan at the start of my own career in the Scottish Railways. You would be forgiven for overlooking this unassuming woman as being ‘nobody important’, as she sat quietly in Rail Maritime and Transport (RMT) branch meetings while other voices were raised, and tempers frayed. Then Nan would speak quietly...
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The Somme: The German perspective
History & The Arts

The Somme: The German perspective

...courses and qualifications [Character of German General] Shortly after daybreak on 1 July 1916, around 100,000 troops of Sir Henry Rawlinson’s 5th Army left their trenches and advanced on the German trenches across no-man’s-land. Many, if not most, expected the 5-day artillery bombardment to have destroyed all but the hardiest of German defensive works and to have...
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What do we need to know about our memory?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we need to know about our memory?

...course of a walk. Use a mnemonic which is a tool that helps us remember certain facts or large amounts of information. Use location to jog memory, such as trying to remember one item per section of the park and then replaying the route in your mind to recall these items. Use someone with you to support you by ‘cueing’. This is where they provide the first letter of...
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