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Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...Les Adventures de Telemaque, referring to Mentor as a ‘guide and instructor’ and ‘another father’. McKimm, Jollie and Hatter (2007, p. 2) make a historical link to the Middle Ages, when they explain that mentoring ‘became common practice in the time of the guilds and trade apprenticeships when young people, having acquired technical skills, often benefited from...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...circuit round the Sun. It last crossed inside Neptune’s orbit in 1979. Pluto orbits the Sun in an inclined orbital plane, and goes around the Sun twice for every three orbits that Neptune makes. The planets never actually pass through the same point in space at the same time, so they will never collide. Suppose that a former Pluto-like object came close to Neptune,...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...Le Gare's lab. What Cristine did was use our blicket detectors. And what she did was show children that yellow ones made it go and red ones didn't. And then she showed them an anomaly. And what you'll see is that this little boy will go through five hypotheses in the space of two minutes. SPEAKER 1: Mhm. SPEAKER 2: How about this? I made the other side. ALISON GOPNIK: OK....
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Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...da Vinci’s most famous works is his Vitruvian man. The full title of this work is Le proporzioni del corpo umano secondo Vitruvio, which translates to The proportions of the human body according to Vitruvius. Ratio and proportion played a crucial role in both of these important works of art, and the golden ratio can be found throughout the human body. [A carton showing Leonardo Da Vinci holding the “Mona Lisa”] Figure 1 ......
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...Le Musée absolu, Phaidon, 10-2012 Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don’t miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free...