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Using a scientific calculator
Science, Maths & Technology

Using a scientific calculator

...working in ‘Math’ mode, and the word Math will be shown near the right-hand side of the top of the calculator display, as shown in Figure 4 below. Math mode is the recommended way of using your calculator during this course as it allows mathematics to be entered and displayed in a similar way to how you would write it on paper. [The figure shows the display on a...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Speeches and speech-making
History & The Arts

Speeches and speech-making

...work through this course you will frequently be thinking about the audiences (or readers) for written texts. But for the purposes of the next activity we will move away from the printed page so that we can listen to some examples of famous speeches, and begin to analyse their effects. Listen to the following audio, ‘Speeches and speech-making’, and then answer the...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Diagrams, charts and graphs
Science, Maths & Technology

Diagrams, charts and graphs

...work with a diagram length of 1 cm. As 2 cm represent 1 m, 1 cm will represent 0.5 m. Then 6 cm represent 0.5 × 6 m = 3 m, 0.2 cm represent 0.5 × 0.2 m = 0.1 m, 3 cm represent 0.5 × 3 m = 1.5 m, 3.6 cm represent 0.5 × 3.6 m = 1.8 m, 0.5 cm represent 0.5 × 0.5 m = 0.25 m. (b) Here 1 m in reality is represented by 2 cm on the diagram. So 2.3 m are represented by 2.3 ×...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...working in Texas, succeeded in cloning a sheep using a nucleus from a cell of an early embryo. This exciting result was soon replicated by others in a host of other organisms, but it only seemed to work when early embryo cells were used. Researchers began to think that animal embryo cells became irreversibly "committed" after the first few cell divisions and that nuclei...
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Article 30 mins
Recovery strategies in sport and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery strategies in sport and exercise

...works with a range of sports governing bodies and professional athletes, talks about the importance of sports recovery. Watch the video and consider the role recovery plays in a training programme. NICK GRANTHAN My name is Nick Granthan. I'm a performance enhancement specialist. I work with a range of national governing bodies in sports as well as individual athletes....
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The world's busiest railway station - Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai
Science, Maths & Technology

The world's busiest railway station - Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai

...work. All this is because of the ‘headway’ – what the station’s control team call the turnaround time between getting trains in and out of the station. In order to keep this massive operation on schedule, they must keep the headway period to the minimum time possible. In peak hours, trains enter and exit each platform every three minutes and thirty seconds....
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Article 5 mins
What can we learn from Pokemon Go?
Education & Development

What can we learn from Pokemon Go?

...work out how Niantic has engaged all those young people. That last one is the challenge for teachers. How do we tap into the power of this phenomenon and use it to support learning? This is a challenge that teachers have been facing since the emergence of virtual reality and augmented reality. Can we take these technologies, with their power to excite and inspire, and use...
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Article 5 mins
The growing demand for drugs in UK prisons
Society, Politics & Law

The growing demand for drugs in UK prisons

...work in them. Chemical comforts Drug taking in prison should be considered against two of the most painful harms of imprisonment: the conscious experience of time and the loss of personal autonomy. It is well documented that prison life is both highly regulated and filled with emptiness. Drugs distort time and prisons are all about the wasting and loss of time. Many...
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Article 5 mins