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Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...solar system. On-board, within the Philae Lander, was the Ptolemy instrument that I and my colleagues at The Open University and Rutherford Appleton Laboratories designed and built. Ptolemy is a miniature research laboratory that sniffs and detects the chemical and isotopic make-up of the comet. Missions like Rosetta really push the boundaries of science and engineering...
Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Teaching and learning tricky topics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...Energy quantisation in atomic structure Animism of atoms Probability in atomic structure Size of atoms Structure/shape of atoms Weight of atoms Chemistry Ideal gas equations Gas volume calculations Pressure volume Temperature relationship Unfamiliarity with thermodynamics Computing/ Technology Java programming Boolean conditions Iteration: loops or repeat, how often to...
Coaching neurodivergent athletes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching neurodivergent athletes

...energy required can lead to poorer mental health outcomes, alongside clinical diagnoses of depression and anxiety (Graf-Kurtulus and Gelo, 2025). Sport and exercise psychologist and former athlete Kristin McGinty-Minister describes her personal experiences of neurodivergence in sport as follows: I believed that my sensory challenges, masking, and confusion about social...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
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...
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
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...
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...
Level 2: Intermediate 3 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...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Bun-chùrsa mu bhith a’ dèanamh atharrachadh poilitigeach is sòisealta
Society, Politics & Law

Bun-chùrsa mu bhith a’ dèanamh atharrachadh poilitigeach is sòisealta

...solar slàinte-inntinn a leasachadh ann an sgoiltean, agus bidh iad a’ dèanamh rannsachadh. Buaidh: Tha buannachdan mòr air a bhith aca mar-thà air leasachadh seirbheisean slàinte-inntinn ann an sgoiltean. Dùbhlain: A’ cothromachadh obair gus atharrachadh a dhèanamh agus, maoineachadh. HIGHLIGHTEDA’ DÈANAMH ATHARRACHADH TRO REACHDAS PÀRLAMAID NA H-ALBA...