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Make your clothes count
Nature & Environment

Make your clothes count

...t-shirt or any other garment by just three months would lead to a 5-10% reduction in the amount of carbon and water used and waste created. So, encouraging people to think about the way they buy, use and pass on clothes clearly helps to save money and resources while reducing our impact on the environment. Buying a new t-shirt should be a big decision. In the UK, we spend...
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Article 5 mins
Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...not constant in time, so we can refer to the time-varying Hubble parameter cap h of t , which is related to time-varying value of the scale factor by cap h of t equals a dot above of t divided by a of t Equation label: (2b) For many years it was believed that the expansion rate of the Universe was decelerating (slowing down) but in the 1990s, observations of distant type Ia ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
How did Emmanuel Macron win the French Presidency?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Emmanuel Macron win the French Presidency?

...Le Pen. How did a man without an established party land the top job?...[A child celebrates Emmanuel Macron's victory in the 2017 French Presidential election] A child outside the Louvre celebrates Macron's victory After a tense and often antagonistic election campaign, Emmanuel Macron is to become the next president of France. The result is, of course, in all sorts of...
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Intermediate Italian: describing people
Languages

Intermediate Italian: describing people

...le parole alla parte del viso a cui si riferiscono. [Described image] Figure 2 i capelli (a) la fronte (b) il sopracciglio (c) gli occhi (d) gli occhiali (e) il naso (f) la bocca (g) la barba (h) Two lists follow, match one item from the first with one item from the second. Each item can only be matched once. There are 8 items in each list. i capelli la fronte il...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Get ready for beginners’ French Badge icon
Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...le français’?...When you hear people speaking French, do you wish you could join the conversation? Or do you have a passion for French culture and want to immerse yourself in it? Perhaps you have an opportunity to work in a French-speaking country? There are lots of reasons for wanting to learn French. If you have decided that now is the time for you to learn another...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Data and processes in computing
Digital & Computing

Data and processes in computing

...T’, ‘T’, ‘E’, ‘S’, ‘’, ‘0’, ‘.’, ‘4’, ‘1’, ‘k’, ‘g’, ‘’, ‘@’, ‘’,‘£’, ‘3’, ‘.’, ‘4’ ‘9’, ‘/’, ‘k’, ‘g’]. Imagine you are at the fifth till in the supermarket, and the data that constitutes your transaction is recorded by the supermarket's computer using the identifier till5. This is the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
An introduction to music theory
History & The Arts

An introduction to music theory

...T T S T T T S – provides the structure of the C major scale, and all major scales. It is therefore a good idea to memorise this structure (which is called the intervallic structure of the major scale)...An introduction to music theory: 5.3 Semitones and tones, and the scale of G major - We saw in the previous section that if we start at middle C and follow the ......
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Getting started with Italian 3
Languages

Getting started with Italian 3

...le stazioni e collegano i piccoli centri. Hanno solo la seconda classe e costano poco ma viaggiano lentamente, a circa 100 km orari. Però c’è anche un regionale veloce, economico ma meno frequente. Su molti treni si può portare la bicicletta pagando il supplemento bici. I treni nazionali (Intercity e Frecciabianca) collegano città grandi e medie su tutto il...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs