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Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...maths-technology/computing-and-ict/systems-computer/network-security/content-section-0 (Accessed: 23 December 2019). OpenLearn (2011) How to survive a botnet attack. Available at https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/computing-ict/how-survive-botnet-attack (Accessed 23 December 2019). Smart, W. (2018) Lessons learned review of the WannaCry Ransomware...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
History & The Arts

Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks

...des sçavans, together with extracts of his letter to Chapelain. I say almost verbatim, because at several points in the narrative phrases have been inserted: ‘having there adjusted his Watches’, ‘having a great confidence in the said Watches’. The same account translated into Dutch eventually featured as the unique account of a sea-trial of pendulum clocks to be...
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Article 10 mins
Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list

...de Janeiro, world-champion athletes and sport commentators — who also happen to be women — have faced offensive slights about everything from their choice of summer dress, to the gold-medal "catfights." Credit for their accomplishments has also been thrown to the men in their lives, too. (Yes, for real.) On Sunday, The Chicago Tribune identified U.S. medallist Corey...
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Article 5 mins
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity

...des Plantes, Levrault, Schell & Co., Paris. Kohn, D.D. and Walsh, D.M. 1994. Plant species richness – the effect of island size and habitat diversity. Journal of Ecology, 82, 367–377. Linder, H.P. 2005. The evolution of diversity: the Cape flora. Trends in Plant Science, 10, 537–542. MacArthur, R.H. and Wilson, E.O. 1967. The Theory of Island Biogeography. Princeton...
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Article 20 mins
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...maths to music. Michelangelo, the epitome of the artist as divine master, was born under the constellation of Mercury and Venus, said to augur his great genius. (Immanuel Kant explains the origin of genius in his Critique of Judgement (1790) ‘… the word genius is derived from [Latin] genius, [which means] the guardian and guiding spirit that each person is given as...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
An introduction to geology
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to geology

...de Venezuela in Flickr. https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 2.0/ Figure 1.2: left to right: Jorge Láscar in flickr.com. https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 2.0/; Unsplash: from www.pixabay.com. https://creativecommons.org/ publicdomain/ zero/ 1.0/ deed.en, Image: courtesy Liam Gumley, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...maths book first published in 1767. The text under the heading ‘General Rule’ gives a description of a process for adding together three non-negative integers, each written as a finite sequence of digits. (The fact that three numbers are added is rather arbitrary: the process would work just as well for adding together two numbers or indeed any number of numbers.)...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...maths activity was something he felt was meaningless to him and it showed he had switched off from the lesson or the teacher. The triggers for Kyle’s behaviour could have been the lack of positive engagement by the teacher, or as a result of Kyle’s home circumstances and his late arrival to the class. Maybe both the teacher and Kyle could have handled things...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs