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Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...mode, 1990–2015 If you link the tonne-kilometres to the statistics of greenhouse gas emissions, you can see that in 2014, 514.4 MtCO2e (million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent) were released into the environment – 23% of which comes from us, transporting boxes of stuff from one link in the supply chain to another. Now consider the logistics in your own...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?

...respiration to produce the energy that cells need – hence cancer cells’ voracious appetite for glucose. Warburg believed this altered metabolism was the cause of cancer, and said so in a 1956 paper. But his provocative theory was soon overshadowed by the molecular biology revolution, as excited scientists began to look for the causes of everything in our DNA. The...
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Article 10 mins
Homage to Celtalonia
Society, Politics & Law

Homage to Celtalonia

...de Depots et Consignations in France linked to European Investment Bank (EIB) and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD); Membership of the European Union and eventually Eurozone, in the event of the latter functioning as an Optimal Currency Area (OCA) as art of EU-wide economic reforms that end the institutionalization of austerity. The list could go on...
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Article 5 mins
The language used during end of life care matters
Health, Sports & Psychology

The language used during end of life care matters

...de-prescribing – indicating that something is not being done. There’s the implication then that medical intervention is inherently ‘good’ and thus, not providing interventions, is somehow ‘bad’. The emotive reactions to such a framing about intervention and care can be seen in the media reactions surrounding the Liverpool Care Pathway in 2012, where not...
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Article 5 mins
Neurodivergence and birth trauma
Health, Sports & Psychology

Neurodivergence and birth trauma

...A., Chang, Z., Larsson, H., Mataix-Cols, D. and Fernández de la Cruz, L. (2019) ‘Association of caesarean delivery with risk of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders in the offspring: a systematic review and meta-analysis’, JAMA Network Open, 2(8), e1910236. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.10236 (Accessed: 14 March 2025)....
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Article 5 mins
Does maths offer a better model for multi-candidate elections?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does maths offer a better model for multi-candidate elections?

...de Condorcet and Jean-Charles de Borda. (Condorcet was friends with Thomas Jefferson, who appears to have paid little attention to Condorcet’s writings about voting.) Condorcet suggested that, if an absolute majority – more than half the voters – prefers Candidate X to Candidate Y, then Candidate Y should not be the winner. That seems very reasonable. Why not make...
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Article 5 mins
Hanes anthem genedlaethol Cymru
History & The Arts

Hanes anthem genedlaethol Cymru

...De Cymru a Sir Fynwy, safodd myfyrwyr ac aelodau staff ar eu traed i ganu cân y daethpwyd i’w hadnabod wrth ei geiriau agoriadol: ‘Hen wlad fy nhadau’. Cafodd ei hysgrifennu yn 1856 gan y tad a’r mab Evan a James James o Bontypridd fel gwrogaeth ramantus i etifeddiaeth Cymru: ei beirdd, cerddorion a’i hiaith. Nodwedd hynod yw’r saib yn y canol ar gyfer y...
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Article 5 mins
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...de Dinteville on the left and Georges de Selve on the right, both in their twenties at the time. They stand above a cosmati marble floor – modelled on the one at Westminster Abbey – in front of a table laden with musical and scientific instruments. The celestial and terrestrial globes, mathematics text, lute, quadrant, and other objects depicted in vividly realistic...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs