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Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?

...de la fermiere (loosely translatable as wanting not only to have their cake and eat it, but also to kiss the baker’s daughter). But on the other hand, it is conceivable that Deal UK ought to be better than the deals granted to countries that have never been EU members. It would debase the status of EU membership to treat the UK worse than those who have never been...

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Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...de la programación que llevó el Apolo a la Luna. Verne Dec 10, 2014. Ref: https://verne.elpais.com/verne/2014/12/11/articulo/1418314336_993353.html Accessed 26 May 2019 Katz, Richard (2010) About Margaret Hamilton. NASA Office of Logic Design. Ref: http://klabs.org/home_page/hamilton.htm Accessed 27 May 2019. McMillan, Robert (2015). Her code got humans on the moon –...

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Nature & Environment

Jean-Pierre Gattuso - Stories of Change

...de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) National Centre for Scientific Research, France. participant RH: So this is Jean-Pierre Gattuso. Where are you from? JPG: Villefranche-sur-Mer. RH: Jean-Pierre, what sort of a state are the oceans in as result of our CO2 emissions? JPG: The CO2 emissions trigger two major changes, that is the warming of the water because the ocean is...

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History & The Arts

The Somme: The German perspective

...de facto commander-in-chief of the German army, had been long expecting the attack. In February, he had launched an assault on the French fortress of Verdun that was designed to ‘bleed white’ the French army and force the French government to peace talks. Falkenhayn believed that before the final French collapse the British would launch an offensive of their own,...

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Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...adults between the ages of 16 and 64 years met the clinical diagnostic criteria for at least one emotional disorder (or common mental disorder; McManus et al., 2009). Of these, depression and anxiety (or a mix of the two, called ‘mixed anxiety and depression’ or MAD) were by far the most common, as Figure 1 shows. Note that the term prevalence is a scientific term...

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Education & Development

All my own work: exploring academic integrity

...adult each day is between 3000 and 4000 (NHS, 2014). This is far lower than the commonly cited target of 10,000 steps. The guidance for 10,000 steps per day originated from Japanese walking clubs and a business slogan in the 1970s. It is not underpinned by any rigorous research, so it is important that we question why 10,000 steps is now seen as the standard target. Could...

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Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing ageing

...adults that you know personally, one younger than you and one older than you. Filling in Interactive table 2 will give you two more people to compare with your own and Monty’s experiences, which will give you further information about the significance of age Interactive table 2 Comment And here is what the same person wrote in the second table: Younger adult My...

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History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...de dum, de dum, de dum, de dum, de dum. One of the effects of employing this fairly regular metre is that deviations from it tend to stand out. Look, for example, at the following passage: but if’t chance Some cursed example poison’t near the head, Death and diseases through the whole land spread. (1.1.13–15) Line 14 is metrically quite even, but line 15 is a bit...

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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs

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Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?