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Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...working-class life (1957), a semiautobiographical examination of the cultural upheavals of the 1950s, Richard Hoggart recalled his upbringing in Leeds. “Every so often one heard that so-and-so had ‘done ’erself in’, or ‘done away with ’imself’, or ‘put ’er ’ead in the gas-oven’,” he wrote. “It did not happen monthly or even every season, and not...
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Neighbourhood nature
Nature & Environment

Neighbourhood nature

...work out how humans changed this landscape, I need to find out what it looked like when they first arrived and that is what botanist Steve Clifton is going to help me do. Wendy There's something really magical about it. How can I begin to tell how old it is? Steve One of the first things to do in a place like this is to look at the vegetation: the trees, the wildlife, in...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Advanced Spanish: Art in Buenos Aires
Languages

Advanced Spanish: Art in Buenos Aires

...social. Y cada uno dibujo, y despues mezclamos los dibujos. Ricardo Lo que me preocupa mucho es la simpleza de todas estas formas y la complejidad de estas formas. ¿Como se puede equilibrar? Cristina Terzaghi Claro, esto como... como significádo de forma es múy potente porqué es el puente, y este gáncho, estás formas són... este... las vamos á apaciguar en color...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Fundamentals of accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of accounting

...working out calculations by hand or mentally. The danger, of course, is that you may use a calculator without understanding what an answer means or how it relates to the numbers operated upon. For example, if you calculate that 8% of £20 is £160 (which can easily happen if either you forget to press the percent key or it is not pressed hard enough), you should...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Explainer: Einstein's Theory of General Relativity
Science, Maths & Technology

Explainer: Einstein's Theory of General Relativity

...work. We said our map could be curved so that the points in the space dimensions were closer together. Since space and time behave together as space-time, the same trick happens for time. If we have some large mass, the curvature in the time dimension means that the more curved the space-time is, the slower a clock ticks there (or appears to for someone in a less curved...
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Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research
Languages

Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research

...work, my PhD thesis and subsequent first book focus on disguise in the theatre, particularly mendacious characters and the multiple masks and identity changes they don within the ever-so illusory world of the stage. You can see, therefore, why an artist such as Bowie so appeals. However, the most powerful image of him for me will always be the one I encountered first,...
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Florida just wants it over
Society, Politics & Law

Florida just wants it over

...working on an election should ever be wholly confident again post-Brexit. The campaign team are at least resigned to the fact that there isn’t much more they can do to bolster Clinton’s personal support in Florida. Minds are largely made up. They do, however, feel they can still make a real difference in tight down-ballot races, especially for the Senate. Ultimately,...
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Is Donald Trump ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon?
Nature & Environment

Is Donald Trump ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon?

...work on a study that the agency had commissioned on improving its inspection program. This was the most recent in a series of studies, and was to include recommendations on the appropriate role of independent third parties and remote monitoring. Minor savings, major risk BSEE estimates that its proposals to change production safety rules could save the industry at least...
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