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Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?

...la fermiere (loosely translatable as wanting not only to have their cake and eat it, but also to kiss the baker’s daughter). But on the other hand, it is conceivable that Deal UK ought to be better than the deals granted to countries that have never been EU members. It would debase the status of EU membership to treat the UK worse than those who have never been equals...
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How to read a rock
Science, Maths & Technology

How to read a rock

...LA-ICP-MS). The EMP allows geologists to shoot a precise beam of electrons at our tiny minerals, causing them to emit characteristic x-rays based on their chemical composition, which we can then measure. The LA-ICP-MS fires a laser at the sample, sending the debris of the mineral into a plasma, from which individual ions are separated using a magnet and are then measured...
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Introduction to Planetary Protection
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to Planetary Protection

...C psychrophiles Consist mainly of bacteria, algae and fungi. Psychrophiles have adaptations that enable them to survive low temperatures, e.g. cell membranes and enzymes that function optimally at relatively low temperatures. 15–50 °C mesophiles The vast majority of organisms on Earth are mesophiles, inhabiting all the major temperate and tropical regions. 50–80 °C...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Climate justice for the next generation
Education & Development

Climate justice for the next generation

...C by 2030 there would be catastrophic and irreversible climate change. There is strong evidence to suggest that a failure to tackle climate change will lead to unprecedented environmental and social catastrophes, with an increase in extreme weather, flooding, droughts and heat waves, damage to ecosystems in the Amazon rainforest and Polar Regions, and rising sea levels....
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Studying mammals: The insect hunters
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The insect hunters

...C Books (ISBN 0563534230), and The Life of Mammals (2002) on DVD, which contains the associated series of ten BBC TV programmes. OpenLearn course S182_8 Studying mammals: life in the trees contains samples from the DVD set. You should begin each course by watching the relevant TV programme on the DVD and reading the corresponding chapter in The Life of Mammals. You will...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...c. equivalent to 35,000 football pitches) (b) 100,000 hectares of forest and agricultural land (c. equivalent to 70,000 football pitches) (c) 180,000 hectares of forest and agricultural land (c. equivalent to 130,000 football pitches) a. (a) 50,000 hectares of forest and agricultural land (c. equivalent to 35,000 football pitches) b. (b) 100,000 hectares of forest and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Section 6: Introduction to Learning Resources on Red Clydeside
Society, Politics & Law

Section 6: Introduction to Learning Resources on Red Clydeside

...c. Overviews of Red Clydeside) focuses on three resources, one short online item and two books, all of which present accessible accounts of events. These events, however, have been the subject of prolonged and heated debate among historians and political partisans (sometimes writers fall into both categories). Thus, we try to identify some of the key contributions to the...
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Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages

...C 8 Student 4 ✔ Level 2 Level 2 27 A 12 Student 5 ✔ Level 3 Level 3 26 A 12 Student 6 ✔ Level 2 Level 3 27 B 10 What does this record tell you about the progress of each student? What information does it give you about what each student has learnt? What do the test results tell you about each student’s strengths and weaknesses? As a teacher of MFL what would you...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs