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EPQs: finding and using evidence
Education & Development

EPQs: finding and using evidence

...Solar System, demonstrates how she starts a literature review. As you read through, think about the process Julia describes and how you could apply the steps she takes to your EPQ research review. Starting a literature review. When you’re starting a literature review, where do you look for evidence? Any literature review requires a well-defined topic. Let’s assume the...
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The Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

The Moon

...solar illumination, which casts shadows at the subtle edges of some of the individual lava flows that flooded this region [Figure 6] Figure 6 progressively more detailed views of the area where Apollo landed in July 1971[.] Top left: 200-km-wide area (Apollo 15 metric camera)[.] Top right: more detailed view of the central portion of Hadley Rille[.] The largest crater is...
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Building the first Thames sewer system
Science, Maths & Technology

Building the first Thames sewer system

...energy the main drainage of London; and the other, to keep the Thames in the meantime from destroying the dwellers on its banks. - The Morning Chronicle, 20-07-1859 WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? If the Chronicle was hoping to only have to endure a couple of stinky summers, it was going to be disappointed - the sewer work would drag on until 1865, and the Victoria Embankment - the...
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Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education
Education & Development

Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

...energy to make them work. Likewise, Katharina Freud et al’s chapter on MOOCs draws attention to the ‘labour iceberg’ of MOOC delivery and the way the MOOC marketplace may lead to some voices, content and forms of knowledge being privileged over others. These perspectives draw further attention to the complexities of work within the neoliberal university context....
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Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class

...energy, but there seems to have been little effort to use that potential for any purposeful national renewal. Trade unionists in engineering led imaginative campaigns for a future not based on arms sales, but they received little support from politicians locked into Cold War orthodoxies. And, until the crash, there was widespread acceptance among decision makers and...
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Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum

...energy and to nuclear weapons (not least the UK’s nuclear weapons are housed on the River Clyde), and to a wide range of other issues. It brought together massive numbers of people who cannot be dismissed as ‘nationalists’ or as SNP supporters. The 1.6m people voting for independence include a majority who are not and who have never have been, ‘nationalists’....
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Stress and Burnout in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stress and Burnout in Aviation

...energy depletion or exhaustion; increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one's job; and reduced professional efficacy. Burnout can result in mental fatigue, (emotional and physical) exhaustion, anxiety, and disconnection and can have serious implications for physical and mental health, relationships, and careers.”...
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It’s all in a name: why I refuse to use a ‘white’ name
Society, Politics & Law

It’s all in a name: why I refuse to use a ‘white’ name

...energy supplier. A man with a thick Indian accent explains that he is calling as I raised an issue with them concerning discrepancies with my bills. He says his name is Steve. I ask him what his real name is in Hindi, but he says he can’t tell me as this call is recorded and he has been trained in this way. I guess Jas is not the only one… I really am proud that I...
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