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Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake
Science, Maths & Technology

Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake

...laws of physics. It doesn’t require you to understand the propulsion system at all. But you can calculate the total amount of energy, and the propulsion system has to provide that much energy and more to make up for inefficiencies. But how much energy is in a spacecraft, an A320 going at tenth the speed of light? Well, it turns out to be equal to the total electric...
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‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury
Education & Development

‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury

...laws saw attitudes associated with difference and inequality expressed in more subtle ways, however the recency of direct expressions of racism means that many may interpret more insidious acts of racism, such as those experienced by Ngozi, as relatively insignificant. Birth of microaggression Chester Pierce coined the term ‘microaggression’ in the late 1960s to...
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Beginners’ Italian: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Italian: food and drink

...law, should be clearly displayed: the price you pay standing at the counter (al banco) and the price you pay sitting down at a table (al tavolo). In smaller towns or rural areas, there is usually only one set of prices and you can sit either inside or outside without paying extra. Figure 11 Uno scontrino Figure 12 Un cartello Activity 6 The following expressions were used...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Critically exploring psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Critically exploring psychology

...laws of human behaviour, you must ask questions that allow you to gather data which either proves or disproves theoretical assumptions. You must ask questions that are falsifiable. Constructivism, in contrast, does not assume that reality is ‘out there’ or that it can be accessed objectively. Instead, the paradigm of constructivism assumes that reality needs to be...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Introducing public health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing public health

...Law resulted in implementation of local public health measures to improve the health and wellbeing of people who were sick, disabled or mentally ill. Since the 19th century, vaccinations have been used as one of the ways of preventing diseases. Then, following World War II, the National Health Service (NHS) was established to provide universal and free health at the point...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Introduction to Planetary Protection
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to Planetary Protection

...law instruments, the five treaties on outer space and other instruments have been developed and adopted by that intergovernmental body. And I would like to add that Coopers was founded in 1958 and today it has 102 states members. Video 6 Niklas Hedman explains COPUOUS. NARRATOR Space-- the final frontier, perhaps, but not a lawless frontier. So why do we need rules in...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Meiosis and mitosis
Science, Maths & Technology

Meiosis and mitosis

...law of segregation. The breeding experiment in maize shows that characters due to dominant or recessive alleles, such as grain colour, show a particular pattern of inheritance from generation to generation: the F1 offspring all resemble one of the parents (Figure 7), and the F2 offspring have the phenotypic ratio of 3 :1 and the genotypic ratio of 1: 2 :1 (Figures 8 and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...law is one source of coercive pressure, but so too is the knowledge that you will get promoted only if you act in ways which fit accepted ways of doing things in your organisation...Making decisions: 5.5.2 Mimetic pressures - Mimetic pressures come from the pressure to imitate what others do. The world is complicated and finding the optimal solution often difficult. One...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs