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IT: device to device communication
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: device to device communication

...device communication: 1.4 Communicating devices - We would like you now to think about a simple IT process you are already familiar with – the process that starts when you click the Print icon on your computer's word-processor screen. For now, imagine that there is simply a point-to-point connection between your computer and the printer (as indeed there may well be) and that the printer is not being shared with other ......
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
The frozen planet
Nature & Environment

The frozen planet

...simple method could be to use the habitats of particular animals. For example, you could say that ‘Antarctica is where penguins live’, but there is a species of penguin found nesting on the coast of southern Africa and even a penguin species in the Galapagos Islands near the Equator! So that doesn’t work either...The frozen planet: 6.1 Habitats and temperatures:...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...simple line graph showing the increase in the number of deaths in police custody investigated by the Police Complaints Authority since 1995–96 (see Figure 4). [Figure 4] Figure 4 Increase in the number of deaths in police custody investigated by the Police Complaints Authority, 1995–99. Source: The Runnymede Bulletin, 1999, Figure 1, p.9 Line graphs are very useful...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Listening for form in popular music
History & The Arts

Listening for form in popular music

...simple, repeated texts seem to invite listeners to sing along. The point of a pop chorus such as this one is to get you to remember it...Listening for form in popular music: 3 Identifying choruses - [This is a photograph of the Imperial State Prison Farm.] Figure 4 The Imperial State Prison Farm, Sugar Land, c.1908. Photo: Taken from Wikimedia, Texas Prison Museum/Public...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
What do Europe's new data rules mean for children online?
Education & Development

What do Europe's new data rules mean for children online?

...code of practice for protecting children’s privacy online – by design, with the focus especially on provision for 13-17 year olds who are above the age of consent but still children. Last, also clearer is the age of consent that many countries are now choosing for children’s access to information society services (as provisionally indicated in the figure below –...
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Supporting women musicians in the workplace
History & The Arts

Supporting women musicians in the workplace

...code of conduct should be drawn up, which everyone participating is asked to sign up to. Ideally, schemes should involve some form of independent third-party oversight and/or supervision, so that another person (who is not party to any of the confidential exchanges between the participating pairs) is available should anything go wrong. Support for parents and carers Many...
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Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...simple: a tiny glass object about the size of a grain of rice is injected into the soft part of the hand between the thumb and forefinger – it’s as easy as drawing blood. The magnet implant process that Michael undertook at the cyborg fair is more invasive and not entirely painless. Later in the day, one enthusiast almost fainted and had to lie on the floor, feet up...
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Does counting calories work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does counting calories work?

...simple. And part of the problem goes way beyond individual self-control. The numbers logged in Nash’s Fitbit, or printed on the food labels that Haelle reads religiously, are at best good guesses. Worse yet, as scientists are increasingly finding, some of those calorie counts are flat-out wrong – off by more than enough, for instance, to wipe out the calories Haelle...
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