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The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...carbon sink’ (up from 51 per cent to 58 per cent); a five per cent increase of people incorrectly identifying ‘less rainfall in winter’ as a predicted outcome of climate change (from 19 per cent to 24 percent), although correct responses (‘more rainfall in winter’) only dropped by one per cent (from 53 per cent to 52 per cent); a seven per cent drop in those who...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Mathematics for science and technology

...carbon atoms. A mole of carbon dioxide (one carbon atom joined to two oxygen atoms), contains Avogadro’s number of these molecules. It is important to realise that, although in everyday usage it is common to say that you 'weigh so many kilos', there are two things wrong with this usage from the scientific point of view. First, as noted in Box 1, the kilogram is not a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...carbon dioxide (CO2) is also produced at this stage (as it is from the pyruvate into acetyl CoA conversion earlier). Other products of the TCA cycle are further processed to make more ATP, and this step requires oxygen (O2) (the O2 we breathe in) and produces water (H2O) as a waste product. Energy is released when certain nutrients are metabolized in the body and this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...footprint of Cardiff becomes bigger, the Remain vote in West Wales finds a less powerful expression in the cartogram than in the more traditional map. The most significant thing about the cartogram on the right is the way in which the sharpness of the colours fades because of the shading used. There are some areas in which the yellow is strong – there the Remain vote...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...carbon permits, which are artificial goods that represent the right to emit GHGs. [Described image] Figure 2: Green hydrogen (made using renewable energy) stored at a fuel hub for buses and other vehicles...Session 1: Models of the economy and environment: 2 Ecological economists’ views of the world - Ecological economics is not a single school of thought, but its...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Surface water
Nature & Environment

Surface water

...carbonate along bedding planes and fractures, and then returned to the surface where impermeable strata prevent further downwards migration. [Figure 1] Figure 1 The River Thames about 1 km from its source in Gloucestershire. Here the river is a bourne arising from a valley spring — the photograph was taken when the water table was high in spring. At the end of summer...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Population ageing: a global health crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Population ageing: a global health crisis?

...carbon dioxide emissions produced by developed countries results in climate change that causes extreme weather on the other side of the world. Temporal changes: in addition to our experience of space, how we experience time is changing. Technology (for example, phones and aeroplanes) can connect people or take them from one place to another faster than before. On the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
The power of infographics in research dissemination
Education & Development

The power of infographics in research dissemination

...carbon neutral volcano. [CROWD LAUGHING] Yeah. [APPLAUSE] And that is beautiful. Thank you. [APPLAUSE] It is clear from the David McCandless TED Talk that infographics and data visualisations can be beautiful and engaging ways to present research, as demonstrated by Figure 4 (which has a marketing, rather than an educational research, focus). [Described image] Figure 4...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs