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Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...work with numerical data...Financial methods in environmental decisions: 1 Financial assessment techniques - The for-profit sector survives by generating profits. Profits fund the development of the next generation of goods and services that a firm supplies. The shareholders, who are the owners of the business also demand that a firm makes a profit. If a company is unable...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...social and political agenda. This free course explores the basic science that underpins climate change and global warming...Climate change is a key issue on today's social and political agenda. This free course explores the basic science that underpins climate change and global warming....Climate change: Introduction - This course explores the topic of climate change and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
The obscure history of the ‘virgin’s disease’ that could be cured with sex
History & The Arts

The obscure history of the ‘virgin’s disease’ that could be cured with sex

...worked for those who believed in the hymen as a barrier, and for those who didn’t. The latter thought that the problem was a different sort of closure, that of little internal “mouths” that allowed blood from all over the body to get into the womb in the first place. If you had the “disease of virgins” your skin colour was thought to be a very unattractive hue,...
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Article 10 mins
Bowie as a conduit
History & The Arts

Bowie as a conduit

...vignette of depression – ‘Pale blinds drawn all day/Nothing to do/Nothing to say’ – with the almost ecstatic resolve to wait ‘for the gift of sound and vision’. This isn’t only a conduit to other peoples’ work, it is an abstract poetry, an ongoing, seductive invitation to be unsettled, to risk going low. Find out more about David Bowie, music and death...
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Article 5 mins
Election days: 1769 - when 296 votes beat 1148
History & The Arts

Election days: 1769 - when 296 votes beat 1148

...work of Alexander Pope. His supporters returned him to the Commons as MP for Middlesex, but on the grounds of his conviction, Parliament had expelled him in February 1769, twice; and then again in March. He was re-elected every time. By April, the authorities came up with a way of avoiding the cat-and-mouse game: effectively refusing to acknowledge his win...[John Wilkes...
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Article 5 mins
After Manchester: Can you make venues safer?
Society, Politics & Law

After Manchester: Can you make venues safer?

...to the work the police and security services do in preventing them. And we should not let terrorism affect our movements as we live as normal a life as possible. Nevertheless, we now have to expect the possibility of an attack and, unfortunately, we all need to become more vigilant. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Article 5 mins
Climate change in the global South: Bangladesh and Senegal
Nature & Environment

Climate change in the global South: Bangladesh and Senegal

...work of Cheikh Mamadou Abidoulaye Dieye, the mayor of Saint-Louis. The mayor took Saint-Louis’ plight to the international stage at the World Mayors Summit on Climate in Mexico City in 2010 where it was noted that many other coastal cities, particularly populous, poor cities, are now suffering the effects of climate change. The film was recorded one year after the World...
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Article 10 mins
What's next for British wages?
Money & Business

What's next for British wages?

...work harder and smarter while giving them more money to buy goods. David Spencer explores these ideas in his article The simple win-win case for higher wages in Britain in The Conversation. There are, furthermore, attempts to provide a deeper analysis of why wages remain so persistently low. Conventional accounts of declining worker rights or crumbling welfare state do...
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