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Fake news in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Fake news in Wales

...types of ‘fake’, and because the term itself has been co-opted as a rhetorical bludgeon by certain politicians, it’s come to mean different things to different people. Because of this vagueness, a lot of people prefer to avoid the term. Popular alternatives are ‘disinformation’ and ‘misinformation’. The former of these describes information that the person...
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Can I become fitter by doing short bursts of exercise?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can I become fitter by doing short bursts of exercise?

...type of evidence can never definitively prove that one necessarily causes the other. There is as yet no research showing that an intervention that regularly breaks up prolonged sitting with short bouts (two to three minutes an hour) of light-to-moderate physical activity will reduce the risk of disease (or early death) in the long term. And we certainly can’t yet say...
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Recycling: Putting consumers to work
Society, Politics & Law

Recycling: Putting consumers to work

...types of work conducted in the public, private, and voluntary sectors. In the case of waste management, placing all waste into a black bag (e.g. not sorting it for recycling) implicates the consumer in one chain of processes, whereas separating the waste for recycling involves the consumer in a very different chain of processes. The journey of waste from household to...
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Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...de Prony who had been commissioned to draw up new books of tables for the French government. De Prony’s task was immense; he would need to create logarithms for all of the numbers from 1 to 10,000 – accurate to nineteen decimal places, and the sines of angles to no less than twenty-five decimal places! De Prony’s solution was to create three teams of mathematicians....
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Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...de Vinci, dying in the Arms of Francis the First (Figure 3) and Rembrandt’s etching of The Death of the Virgin (Figure 4). Delacroix tilts and raises his deathbed to an exceptional degree, however, so that death completely dominates the surrounding space. In art of an earlier period, this would probably have been attributed simply to a lack of technical competence; see,...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
People-centred designing
Science, Maths & Technology

People-centred designing

...types of controls on machines, we expect that certain actions, such as turning or sliding them in certain directions, will produce expected kinds of results. Expectations that are found to be widespread in a population are know as conventions or stereotypes. Example Consider the arrangement in this example; which way would you turn the knob to make the pointer on the dial...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Developing business ideas for drone technologies Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...types of operators in the rural environment. ESTHER VERA We have very close conversations with the local farmers. They are really helping us into this process of data collection. We are scheduling the flights depending on the period of the time, and they're also helping us to understand how the plants grow. JONATHAN MINCHIN It's very important for us to listen to the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales
Languages

Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales

...de Télesphore et ‘Tit Edvard dans le grand Nord, the second tale in a trilogy by Cajun poet and singer-songwriter Zachary Richard, which also includes Conte cajun: L’histoire de Télesphore et de ‘Tit Edvard and Les aventures de Télesphore et ‘Tit Edvard au Vieux Pays. Likewise, Cajun culture and French in Louisiana seem very much alive, for the tales are...
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