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‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...energy sources away from fossil fuels to biofuels. Land acquisition, or ‘land grab’ as it is often called, offers important lessons about the way that environmental problems are entangled with economic and political issues at an increasingly global scale. The issue illustrates how everyday issues such as food prices are caught up in complex connections that link...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Galaxies, stars and planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Galaxies, stars and planets

...energy) and the watt (W; unit of power, which is energy per unit time or J/s). The size of an atom is about one-ten-billionth of a metre, and the nucleus of that atom is around a hundred thousand times smaller still! Clearly some different units for distance are needed that are more appropriate for the very small and very large. One way to do this is to use units that are...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...energy source in the future. On the way, you've also learned how to make and record observations in a systematic way, how to plot graphs, and how to interpret your data. Now, both of the experiments revealed some important facts about water. And this week, you're going to do another simple experiment that will reveal something astonishing. You're going to freeze some...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...energies, was not what critics and public had come to expect of grand history painting. Its massive size (just under four by five metres) magnified its effect. In fact, the painting had only narrowly been voted into the exhibition by the Salon jury. The following critique, by Étienne-Jean Delécluze, a former pupil of David, was typical: M. Delacroix’s Sardanapalus...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable
Nature & Environment

The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable

...energy-intensive than hunting for seals and offers the bears are more secure and abundant food source. The human response in this story is entirely predictable in sending in ‘experts’ to drive the bears away, or worse cull them. Despite ecologists’ warnings that polar bears will be pushed to extinction by climate change, all the world seems to be able to do is to...
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Article 15 mins
Volunteering in the community
Education & Development

Volunteering in the community

...energy for the benefit of your community, over and above any other paid employment you may have. Below, be inspired by five colleagues who are working in, and serving, their communities for the common good. Emily - Magistrate [Emily] “The more people in the community are represented, the better decisions are made.” Before becoming a magistrate, Emily had never been a...
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Article 5 mins
Flying Fatigued: Fatigue in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Flying Fatigued: Fatigue in Aviation

...energy to complete daily or complex tasks (Fulghum Bruce, 2023). ICAO defines fatigue as: “A physiological state of reduced mental or physical performance capability resulting from sleep loss, extended wakefulness, circadian phase, and/or workload (mental and/or physical activity) that can impair a person’s alertness and ability to adequately perform safety-related...
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Article 5 mins
Understanding your sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...energy resources and natural resources. This course will use it to mean all of these in line with the definition provided by Oxford Dictionaries, that is a ‘stock or supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively’ (Oxford Dictionaries, 2021). These can differentiated further between...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs