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Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...energy, hence for coal and steam engines; and these engines, and the machines themselves, had a voracious appetite for iron, which called for further coal and power. Steam also made possible the factory city, which used unheard-of quantities of iron (hence coal) in its many-storied mills and its water and sewage systems. At the same time, the processing of the flow of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...energy and pathos, is an anthology of the piety of ages and nations, a translation of the prayers and forms of the Catholic church,--these collected, too, in long periods, from the prayers and meditations of every saint and sacred writer, all over the world. Grotius makes the like remark in respect to the Lord's Prayer, that the single clauses of which it is composed were...
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Article 15 mins
A question of ethics: right or wrong?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A question of ethics: right or wrong?

...energy) to be able to fulfil, i.e. offering extra training sessions. Lack of comfort: there may be situations that make the practitioner uncomfortable, such as personal training a client who they know uses enhancing supplements containing WADA banned substances, which may not sit within their own moral values. Relationship issues: when working closely with people a sexual...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
How places affect well-being
Health, Sports & Psychology

How places affect well-being

...energy to be active and use their green spaces, so it’s not clear that green space causes an increase in well-being from these studies. Other studies have tried to pinpoint these relationships more precisely. In a classic study, Ulrich and colleagues (1984) compared the recovery rates of hospital patients in the US who had a view of nature from their window with those...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
John Napier
Science, Maths & Technology

John Napier

...energies left over from the management of his estates remains a puzzle. Up to the publication of his description of logarithms in 1614, three years before his death, Napier was best known to the world for his Protestant religious treatise A plaine discovery of the whole Revelation of Saint John (1594), a well-received work which was translated into several foreign...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Citizen science and global biodiversity Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and global biodiversity

...energy transfer and the cycling of components constitute the ecosystem. Activity 1 Energy sources Timing: Allow about 5 minutes What sources of energy would be available to plants and animals in a small ecosystem such as a small wood? Suggest two examples for each. Answer For plants, the most obvious sources of energy are sunlight and nutrients from the soil. For animals,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Personal branding for career success Badge icon
Money & Business

Personal branding for career success

...energy – use your brand like a filter to help you decide what to focus your energy on Letting yourself be lazy – a personal brand thrives on consistency, so once you’ve got it right, you don’t need to re-invent yourself. A key element of personal branding is finding the time to do it properly. In the next section, you’ll look at ways to identify and protect that...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to exoplanets Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...energy that the Sun produces comes from this conversion of hydrogen gas into helium gas. Our Sun is about 4.5 billion years old. 4.5 billion can also be written as 4500 000 000 or 4.5 × 109. The Sun is middle-aged: halfway through its lifetime as a ‘normal’ star, which we call a ‘main sequence’ star. More massive main sequence stars than the Sun are bigger, bluer...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs