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Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...carbon dependence. These activities certainly count as ‘doing development’ – but why is it not this work that springs to mind? Development is very diverse and it is done by all sorts of people. So, this week you will start to look at the actual practise of ‘development’, and specifically at the different types of interventions that are used to try to bring about...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The restless Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

The restless Universe

...carbon is graphite, rather than diamond. Fortunately, the processes that restore equilibrium are very slow in this case, so diamonds do not perceptibly turn into graphite. But, under some rather extreme conditions, diamond is the equilibrium state rather than graphite, and this fact can be used to create new diamonds from soot. More generally, thermodynamics determines...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...carbon economy. And they are not going to be able to do those things without help, advice, and support from our academic institutions, who hold a huge amount of knowledge and a huge amount of innovation and a huge number of solutions to some of these challenges that we’re facing. So a really effective Wales would be one where our public institutions are coming together...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
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Languages

How to learn a language

...carbon emissions. ANDREW SIMMS Each one of these independently is enough to cause a scale of upheaval the likes of which, to see some sort of comparison, we’d have to look back to the Great Depression of the 1930s. What we’re worried about is that the combination of all three happening simultaneously may represent a challenge to our social and economic systems which...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide
Health, Sports & Psychology

The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide

...carbon monoxide poisoning, speculation remains over whether his death was, in fact, a murder (Jonze, 2018). Five Austrians featured in Germany’s first match of the tournament against Switzerland. With old rules, a replay of the tie was necessary following a draw. Despite going two goals up in the replay, the new German side capitulated and lost 4-2. It was clear that...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Animals at the extremes: the desert environment
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: the desert environment

...carbon dioxide. In dogs, foxes and other species that pant, evaporative cooling is promoted by opening the mouth; a simple mechanical device further increases the effectiveness of cooling by respiratory water loss. A valve at the back of the throat, driven by breathing movements, directs a large proportion of the air that was inhaled through the nose out through the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...footprints in it, so for a time nobody knew exactly where on Lenox Avenue she lived. But, like me, they knew who she was, who she had to be, because they knew that her husband, Joe Trace, was the one who shot the girl. There was never anyone to prosecute him because nobody actually saw him do it, and the dead girl’s aunt didn’t want to throw money to helpless lawyers...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...footprint. This means that people who don’t know you might be able to find you fairly quickly online through just a few searches. There are a couple of important implications of this. Firstly, you will also be able to find many other people by using the same techniques, including people with whom you might wish to network. Secondly, if people do locate your online...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs