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Sharpening Your Critical Thinking
History & The Arts

Sharpening Your Critical Thinking

...account as well, Martina Navratilova has won the most titles since tennis professionalised. And what about Grand Slam titles before then? If we take those into account, then Margaret Court has won the most Grand Slam titles. So, even if we think that Grand Slam titles are indicative of greatness, it’s not clear that Serena Williams comes out on top. So it’s debatable...
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Social work law and UK regulation
Society, Politics & Law

Social work law and UK regulation

...account; she does not know what has happened to it but says that Callum has her bank card so that he can pay her bills. Comment Joanna could issue a civil claim against Robert to get him to repay the money she lent to him. There may be further civil proceedings issued by the housing authority to ensure that the property is made safe. In addition, criminal proceedings may...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
AI fluency
Digital & Computing

AI fluency

...accountability, inclusiveness, reliability and safety, fairness, transparency, privacy and security. Discover how these principles foster trust and help create AI systems that respect individual rights and serve society. Voice-over: AI is all around us. It is there when you ask a voice assistant to play your favourite song, or when a chatbot helps you with a customer...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?

...accounts for 20,847 deaths, more than one-third of the world’s total, giving it the highest incidence of rabies globally. [Louis Pasteur conducting an experiment while investigating rabies] Pasteur injects a rabbit with rabies as part of his work into the causes of rabies Rabies is a vicious killer, a virus transmitted through saliva. Any warm-blooded mammal is...
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The Bletchley Park connection
History & The Arts

The Bletchley Park connection

...account, published in 1993. Derek Taunt An example of a prime snippet of secret knowledge which we had to keep to ourselves concerned the Bismarck, which had been sunk some three months before my arrival in Hut 6. I was told that its whereabouts at a critical moment had been revealed in an Enigma message to a high-ranking German Air Force officer, whose son was aboard the...
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Information security
Science, Maths & Technology

Information security

...accountants placed its value at US $24.91 billion (Wolfram Alpha, 2016a). Why the difference? Is this just accountants being prissy? Well, no. Accountants like to work on the realised value of the company, called book value; that is the total value of its tangible assets: its property, computers, manufacturing plant etc. In contrast, shareholders value the things in a...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...account for their easy statements of equal rights...Rights and justice in international relations: 3.1 Introduction - As this history might suggest, defining and conceptualising rights is not straightforward. This section aims to provide a working definition of ‘rights’ and introduce some important debates about rights. It aims to supply some conceptual tools to use...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...accountable global governance and grassroots participation. The final brief section is in three parts. It takes the three views outlined in Section 2 and looks at cases and arguments to see how each sees sustainability being arrived at. Section 4 attends to the idea of sustainability in practice. The conclusion ties up some of the threads of the chapter by reflecting on...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs