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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
Data and processes in computing
Digital & Computing

Data and processes in computing

...works. These comments are not peculiar to the fifth till at the supermarket. The supermarket's computer stores data for each active till. The data for each till can be seen as a variable, and so needs its own identifier — such as till1, till2, and so on. Indeed, the term variable is used for any named area of computer memory, storing data that may change. Now suppose...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 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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Article 5 mins
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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Article 5 mins
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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Article 5 mins
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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Article 5 mins
Jean-Pierre Gattuso - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jean-Pierre Gattuso - Stories of Change

...work near a CO2 vent in the Mediterranean and we have to recognise the fact that those vents are windows to the future, but they are imperfect windows to the future because they don’t incorporate the warming effect; only ocean acidification is manipulated by those CO2 vents, not the warming of the water. So this is not something that is taken into account by...
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The Psychology of Decision Making
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Psychology of Decision Making

...work lives, if we did not filter information and discard options we would suffer from analysis paralysis: the inability to make any decision in the face of the complexity and the ambiguity of the real world. However, this filtering comes at a cost and introduces some significant biases into the judgements we make. One is overconfidence: we tend to be unduly optimistic...
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Article 10 mins