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Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list
Science, Maths & Technology

Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list

...Writing for The Conversation, John Newman has reassuring news for the multibillion industries, though - a lot of free-to-use activity gets overlooked by the regulators: U.S. antitrust law is uniquely devoted to a strain of economics often called “price theory.” Beginning in the 1970s, price theory came to dominate antitrust law and scholarship. Price theory (no...
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Evolutionary tree of mammals
Nature & Environment

Evolutionary tree of mammals

...Write down the names of the mammals with the same sequence. Answer Any of the pairs of mammals listed below is a correct answer here Sheep and goat Toothed whale and baleen whale Zebra and tapir SAQ 7 Question 7: What does this tell us about this pair of mammals? Answer They are closely related. SAQ 8 Question 8: How many pairs of mammals have the same sequence for this...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below and referenced in the course is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Text Section 3: extract: Eyben, R., Kidder, T.,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Educational leadership at local and community level: Supporting ‘Quality Education’ even in times of adversity
Education & Development

Educational leadership at local and community level: Supporting ‘Quality Education’ even in times of adversity

...creative ways to keep learning going. For many in low-income countries the solutions have focused on low-tech approaches (e.g. radio broadcast in local communities). A recent blog post by Power (2020) on Activating local study-groups for children’s learning—an equitable EdTech response? shows how local community leaders in Zimbabwe have used WhatsApp to recruit and...
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The Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

The Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice

...creative accounting in order to get around this rule, for example by claiming that a service was being provided with the loan, and in fact Christian banking houses were completely uninhibited by the usury laws. Jews were useful because they were prepared to lend to the very poor. The programme tells us that in times of economic difficulty, as in the early 16th century,...
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Statistics: What is it or what are they?
Science, Maths & Technology

Statistics: What is it or what are they?

...Creative Commons attribution licence] To illustrate further, let’s think about an example: an opinion poll to find out people’s voting intentions in the next General Election. The pollsters will interview a representative sample of electors, and ask each of them which party they would vote for if there were an election tomorrow. For instance, in its regular poll in...
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Take the next step with an Open University short course
Education & Development

Take the next step with an Open University short course

...creative arts and languages. Created by our leading OU academics, and with many courses endorsed by leading industry partners, you can be confident in getting world-class learning and practical skills that you can immediately apply in the real world. Julia Pennacchia, who studied a short course with the OU, said: From the very start of the course, I was learning things...
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Exploring stereotypes in STEM
Education & Development

Exploring stereotypes in STEM

...creative ideas can come from anyone regardless of race, age, gender or sexuality. I believe that to solve the world’s most pressing challenges, and to solve them for the many, not just the few, we need everyone to be represented.’ Read more in the Institute of Civil Engineers article here. We asked AI to provide an image of a scientist. [AI-generated image of a male...
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