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Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...energy, and silence about it really does make the depression worse. And then I began thinking about all the ways people make themselves better. I'd started off as a medical conservative. I thought there were a few kinds of therapy that worked. It was clear what they were there. There was medication; there were certain psychotherapy; there was possibly electroconvulsive...
Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...energy sources away from fossil fuels to biofuels. Land acquisition, or ‘land grab’ as it is often called, offers important lessons about the way that environmental problems are entangled with economic and political issues at an increasingly global scale. The issue illustrates how everyday issues such as food prices are caught up in complex connections that link...
Building relationships with donors
Money & Business

Building relationships with donors

...energies? The following discussion stresses how the pyramid model needs to be used with caution and complements it with some other models to guide your effective donor development. The pyramid represents a ‘bottom-up’ approach to donor development. It rests on your ability to attract and renew a broad base of potential interest and support. What might the process look...
Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...solar radiation passes through the atmosphere and warms up the more massive and dense land masses and oceans below. These absorb and retain heat energy which is then re-radiated at infrared wavelengths that do not pass so easily through the air as the incoming radiation. This is not a uniform process, however. The oceans have a temperature variation which is less (i.e....
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Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...energy and nutrients must be met. This is particularly important in growing children as damage inflicted may not be reversible and can affect normal development. People whose diet lacks the necessary nutrients suffer from malnutrition, a condition that includes both over-nutrition and under-nutrition and is considered a risk factor for health. Under-nutrition [P2]...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...energy source in the future. On the way, you've also learned how to make and record observations in a systematic way, how to plot graphs, and how to interpret your data. Now, both of the experiments revealed some important facts about water. And this week, you're going to do another simple experiment that will reveal something astonishing. You're going to freeze some...
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...energies, was not what critics and public had come to expect of grand history painting. Its massive size (just under four by five metres) magnified its effect. In fact, the painting had only narrowly been voted into the exhibition by the Salon jury. The following critique, by Étienne-Jean Delécluze, a former pupil of David, was typical: M. Delacroix’s Sardanapalus...
Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...energy into a whole new way of life. All of that (and more) could even be happening all at once!...Introducing your Midlife MOT Your midlife years – that is, when you’re between about 40 and 60 – will probably be a very hectic time indeed. You might have ended up in a challenging job, or you might be working hard to get one. You could be looking after the kids, your...