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Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...writing or preparing for assignments. If you believe that you need to learn, or brush up on, these types of skills then you are strongly advised to get a copy of The Sciences Good Study Guide by Northedge, Thomas, Lane and Peasgood, 1997, Open University. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Engineering...Learning, thinking and doing: Learning...
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Professor Andrew Watson - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Andrew Watson - Stories of Change

...writing reports back in 1991. It remains around 3 degrees centigrade for a doubling of carbon dioxide. That’s the best estimate but with a wide range. It could be conceivably as low as 1.5 degrees, it could be as high as, well in the fourth report they were quoting up to nearly 6 degrees centigrade, so somewhere in those levels. Now it’s quite interesting that the...
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Does poor spelling really make President Trump unfit for office?
Languages

Does poor spelling really make President Trump unfit for office?

...write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name”. To which Jackson pithily remarked that “it is a damn poor mind indeed which can’t think of at least two ways to spell any word”. Trump has, of course, received a barrage of derision for his assorted mistakes – as another tweeter remarked, “how does a man who wants to limit immigration to only...
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The World Cup has already been won... by Karpatalja
Society, Politics & Law

The World Cup has already been won... by Karpatalja

...writing on the CONIFA tournament is in press, but a documentary I made The other World Cup: Football Across Borders was released last year and shown at the inaugural Football Collective conference. The film culminates in the 2016 World Football Cup, hosted and won by Abkhazia, a self-declared independent territory, considered by the UN to be a part of Georgia. It examines...
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Oil majors told to adapt or die
Nature & Environment

Oil majors told to adapt or die

...writes: “These efforts were relatively short-lived, and many IOCs have subsequently pulled out of such ventures.” Limiting emissions There are doubts over whether the oil companies have the necessary technical and managerial skills to operate successfully in what is rapidly becoming a decentralised energy system. The IOCs also find themselves burdened with “stranded...
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Radical alternatives to prison
Society, Politics & Law

Radical alternatives to prison

...write and have been expelled or truanted from school; were unemployed or on benefits before imprisonment, and have multiple and often serious mental health problems. [On Sept. 8, 2015, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center, USA] The first and most significant radical alternative to prison is to introduce social policies that are directed at meeting human need and addressing the...
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What effect is social media having on the way we mourn global tragedies?
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What effect is social media having on the way we mourn global tragedies?

...writes blogger Mehak Anwar, ‘they are, after all, silly little characters that look more or less like cartoons’. Although the use of emoji now extends into all domains of life, from politics to education, for many they’re still associated with a type of expression which is light-hearted, even childish. And this association colours the meaning they have in all...
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Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?
Education & Development

Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?

...Writing about the discipline of education itself, for example, Bridges suggests that: ‘Discipline meant that enquiry was conducted in accordance with some established rules and procedures which provided the basis for among other things distinguishing truth from falsity, warranted from unwarranted belief. The requirement for disciplined enquiry became translated into the...
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