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Golden Globe Ocean Race: The next 50 years?
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: The next 50 years?

...waste: Transcript What will the oceans look like in another 50 years? That all depends on the actions we take right now. References UN (2017) Factsheet: People and Oceans [Online]. Available at https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Ocean-fact-sheet-package.pdf (Accessed 2019). Like oceans? Take it further Free resources: Free courses:...
Heaven: What might it be like?
History & The Arts

Heaven: What might it be like?

...courses of action which have actual effects. The possible deception involved in each of these examples has inspired ethical debate for centuries. But heaven need not be a place promised after death. While some strive to create the suitable environment for heaven on earth, others try to create the right conditions for an experience of heaven within themselves. Famously the...
The story of infection
Health, Sports & Psychology

The story of infection

...course, we have yet to find a way to readily treat most viral infections, as shown by the Covid-19 pandemic. Doctors can treat the symptoms but not the virus itself and at the time of writing, there is no vaccine for Covid-19. So in the battle between humanity and nature, nature seems to retain the upper hand. We need to work hard to keep up and continue to develop new...
Support for dyslexic language students through feedback
Education & Development

Support for dyslexic language students through feedback

...courses. In English for Academic Purposes (EAP), if the grammatical errors are many, it is advisable to focus on just two or three areas, provide feedback and useful links and possibly set up a special session to deal with these error types. Feedback When writing their feedback teachers need to make sure that the text is subdivided into meaningful and easily recognizable...
Flowery meadows and high tech surveying equipment
Nature & Environment

Flowery meadows and high tech surveying equipment

...course subject to occasional flooding indeed they act as flood protection areas for cities such as Oxford, we know these high biodiversity plant communities can withstand a certain amount of winter flooding but what happens when the areas flood in summer when the plants are in full growth like happened in 2007? The 1300 sample locations have to be surveyed over a short...
Why cancer cells go to sleep: the mystery of cancer dormancy
Science, Maths & Technology

Why cancer cells go to sleep: the mystery of cancer dormancy

...anti-inflammatory drugs could stop dormant cancer cells that generate metastasis from “waking up”. If clinical trials confirm these results, we will soon be able to offer the patients treatments that specifically target dormant cancer cells. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Try a free health and social care course...
Should animals have legal standing?
Society, Politics & Law

Should animals have legal standing?

...course in reality these actions are being taken by human beings acting on behalf of the company. Why does it matter who is a ‘person’? As well as being able to enter into legal arrangements such as contracts, legal personality gives an entity the right to go to court in their own name. In previous centuries, the law upheld inequality by denying legal personhood to...
What is leading to a decline in trust in charities?
Money & Business

What is leading to a decline in trust in charities?

...course of their trusteeship. Carrying out these legal duties can in itself lead to negative publicity, such as when the Church of England chases people for payments for chancel repairs to local churches, which it has argued in the past must be done by trustees “to exercise their powers in its best interests”, or when charities such as the RSPCA are forced to defend...