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Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...types of housing finance and, with the aid of an interactive tool and relevant calculations, choose between them given some different constraints explain, using a simple economic model, how demand and supply affect house prices and discuss the consequences for different types of household understand, with the aid of the household financial balance sheet, why housing may...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
How are tiny air pollutants causing massive storms in the Amazon?
Nature & Environment

How are tiny air pollutants causing massive storms in the Amazon?

...de Oliveira Andrade...[Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Brazil.] Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas Ultrafine aerosol particles found in polluted urban air can contribute to more intense storms in the Amazon rainforest, with potential knock-on...
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Article 5 mins
Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...types of business must register with the Chamber of Commerce. Registration with the Chamber of Commerce will automatically result in registration for income tax and VAT purposes as well. In the eyes of the law, the sole trader as a person and as a business are one and the same. The implications are that the owner of the sole trader business: raises finance by investing...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Where a ban has been replaced by a bee
Languages

Where a ban has been replaced by a bee

...de Deletreo en Español] Fifth-grader Mariana Moya-Rubiano from Thomas Harrison Middle School, Harrisburg, Virginia, correctly spells her first word in the competition. 27 students competed %u2014 accents, tildes and all %u2014 in the bee this year. It is sixth grader Jybr Reynoso Hidrogos’ second time competing. He made the top five last year, but fell short of a...
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Article 5 mins
Tarddiad corau meibion yng Nghymru
History & The Arts

Tarddiad corau meibion yng Nghymru

...De Cymru, honnir mai i'w chwareli llechi y gall baswyr taranol gogledd Cymru ddiolch am eu cyseiniant cymaradwy. Mae'r cyhoedd, yn gywir ddigon, yn cysylltu'r côr meibion yng Nghymru a hanes diwydiannol Cymru. Gellir olrhain ei darddiad i ganol y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg. Ymhen fawr o dro, sicrhaodd ensembles a oedd yn cynnwys dynion yn unig, a ddechreuodd fel cangen...
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Article 5 mins
Decolonising computing?
Digital & Computing

Decolonising computing?

...de-centring politic, less concerned with a replication of its own ‘centres’” (p. 3). However, I remain somewhat undecided about the need to commit to decentring per se, being more concerned with decentring Eurocentrism cum West-centrism cum core-centrism. On my reading of ‘pluriversality’ as an alternative to Eurocentric universality, for example, it might be...
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Video 15 mins
African Caribbean religions and the problem of representation
History & The Arts

African Caribbean religions and the problem of representation

...De Brosses to describe African religions in general. In doing so De Brosses extended the term fetishism to African people, cultures and traditional religions by placing this term in opposition to the European Enlightenment ideal of rational thought and to the Catholic Christian dogma of idolatry (Böhme, 2014). As reported by Böhme, fetish gradually replaced the concept...
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Article 10 mins
Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German
Languages

Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German

...phrases, and listening to the intonation and sound of language can improve your pronunciation of your spoken German. The video recordings you view were recorded for your learning. These video clips are all authentic; they all show people from Germany or Austria talking about themselves at normal speed. This may be different from the sort of material you have come across...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs