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The hidden world of everyday coding
Digital & Computing

The hidden world of everyday coding

...energy. It’s coding working quietly behind the scenes to make everyday life smoother and keeping us from awkward lift conversations! Even your washing machine is powered by coding Software tells it exactly how long to wash, rinse and spin your clothing, and sensors help it to decide how much water to use. All this is everyday coding making your life easy, fresh and...
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Is Donald Trump ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon?
Nature & Environment

Is Donald Trump ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon?

...energy production facilities. Then-Secretary Ken Salazar completed the separation of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement from MMS in October 2011. Oil flooding from the ruptured well during the BP spill, June 3, 2010. Officials at this new agency reviewed multiple investigations and studies of the BP spill and offshore drilling safety issues, including...
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How can acceptance and commitment therapy help carers in challenging times such as the COVID-19 pandemic?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can acceptance and commitment therapy help carers in challenging times such as the COVID-19 pandemic?

...energy into fighting them, resisting them, running from them or getting overwhelmed, we invest our energy into the things and people that really matter to us. This allows a much better quality of life, even when the external stressors haven’t gone away (such as living with a chronic health condition, or where external events cause us anxiety). 5: Noticing our thinking A...
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How to read a rock
Science, Maths & Technology

How to read a rock

...energy of what they are being transported in is pretty constant. Grains vary between being 1mm and 10cm in size. A ‘poorly sorted’ texture indicates the energy of what they are being transported in varies in time and space – sometimes it can move big heavy grains, other times only smaller grains. Environment of deposition. Sandy beach material that has been...
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Studying mammals: A winning design
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: A winning design

...energy expenditure will 'make the minimum demand on the meagre pasture around her and she has a fertile dormant egg within her womb ready to start its development just as soon as conditions improve'...Studying mammals: A winning design: 4 Milk production (lactation) - In this section, you are presented with a fairly complex diagram, Figure 1. The first thing to do when...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...energy, crucial when the computer is battery powered such as a laptop of mobile phone. Saving energy is also important for the environment. At the end of this course in considering the future of computing you will look at green computing.) Any electrical signal where the number of possible values that can be used is limited is known as a digital signal. If the number of...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
The devil is in the (complex) detail
Health, Sports & Psychology

The devil is in the (complex) detail

...energy, farming, science, and many more. The sheer complexity and speed of Brexit is likely to have further psychological effects that make it different from normal political issues. Psychologists have shown that when faced with overwhelming information load, such as high complexity and abstract information, along with situational constraints on being able to evaluate...
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Injection moulding
Science, Maths & Technology

Injection moulding

...energy efficient. Due to the high capital cost of machines and dies, the process is only suitable for long production runs. Materials: Thermopolymers are the most commonly used materials although the process is being increasingly used on thermosets (such as polyesters and melamines), rubbers, reinforced polymers (glass and carbon fibre) and to produce both structural and...
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