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Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer
Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...de la programación que llevó el Apolo a la Luna. Verne Dec 10, 2014. Ref: https://verne.elpais.com/verne/2014/12/11/articulo/1418314336_993353.html Accessed 26 May 2019 Katz, Richard (2010) About Margaret Hamilton. NASA Office of Logic Design. Ref: http://klabs.org/home_page/hamilton.htm Accessed 27 May 2019. McMillan, Robert (2015). Her code got humans on the moon –...
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Jean-Pierre Gattuso - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jean-Pierre Gattuso - Stories of Change

...de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) National Centre for Scientific Research, France. participant RH: So this is Jean-Pierre Gattuso. Where are you from? JPG: Villefranche-sur-Mer. RH: Jean-Pierre, what sort of a state are the oceans in as result of our CO2 emissions? JPG: The CO2 emissions trigger two major changes, that is the warming of the water because the ocean is...
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The Somme: The German perspective
History & The Arts

The Somme: The German perspective

...de facto commander-in-chief of the German army, had been long expecting the attack. In February, he had launched an assault on the French fortress of Verdun that was designed to ‘bleed white’ the French army and force the French government to peace talks. Falkenhayn believed that before the final French collapse the British would launch an offensive of their own,...
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Technology in sport since 1969
Health, Sports & Psychology

Technology in sport since 1969

...de France ‘winner’) was also stripped of his titles due to doping. Drug technology has continued to evolve allowing cheats to stay one step ahead of the testing laboratories for now. As all technology has advanced it seems that human evolution has taken a turn towards devolution. With the current generation often reported as the first to have a shorter life expectancy...
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John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...de dum, de dum, de dum, de dum, de dum. One of the effects of employing this fairly regular metre is that deviations from it tend to stand out. Look, for example, at the following passage: but if’t chance Some cursed example poison’t near the head, Death and diseases through the whole land spread. (1.1.13–15) Line 14 is metrically quite even, but line 15 is a bit...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...mode of procedure. Video 2 The heuristic shows a practitioner engaging with situation S through the combined use of a framework of ideas F and a method, M. It comprises a person (ii) thinking about a real-world situation in which a person or practitioner P (i) – who may be the same as the person who is thinking – engages with a situation S. You came to this course...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...He once wrote: ‘Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte_’._ –Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters, Letter XVI, December 1656. Translation: ‘I wrote this very long [letter] because I didn’t have the time to make it shorter’. What do you think Pascal meant by this? [Photo of Claire]Figure 8 ClaireShow descriptionA photograph of Claire. Claire, whose ......
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Understanding mental capacity Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...LES No. INTERVIEWER What were you? LES I might have flew a Spitfire. INTERVIEWER Did you? LES Yeah. And shot six down. INTERVIEWER Did you? LES I did. You see, I was very proud of it. INTERVIEWER Was that frightening, being a part of a Spitfire? LES No. It was exhilarating. INTERVIEWER Was it? LES Yes. INTERVIEWER So the home had one of our ......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs