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Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...et al., 2016) and show that lung cancer is the most common cancer causing death. However, a considerable amount of evidence needs to be gathered before some hazardous chemical in the environment can be shown unequivocally to be the cause of increased cancers. Activity 1 Pathways for hazardous chemicals Timing: Allow about 10 minutes a. How might the toxic chemicals in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary
OpenLearn Ireland

The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary

...Institute Peace Prize; and the United Nations (UNESCO) Peace Prize. In 2000 and 2001, at the request of President Clinton, Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and Chairman Yasser Arafat, Senator Mitchell served as Chairman of an International Fact-Finding Committee on violence in the Middle East. The Committee's recommendation, widely known as The Mitchell Report, was endorsed by...
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Article 10 mins
Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition
Society, Politics & Law

Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition

...institutions of that time and showing moral leadership to the new (industrialised) working classes. The moral message was not just about the errors and vice of chattel slavery, but also about the importance of self-discipline, personal industry and engaging in what the anti-slavery abolitionists considered to be non-coercive labour – the capitalist labour market. This...
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Article 20 mins
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...Institute of Florence Figure 4: Lee’s copy of Rudolf Goldscheid’s Höherentwicklung und Menschenökonomie: grundlegung der sozialbiologie Calderoni returned the book with his own marginalia (some commenting on Lee’s first of notes), which prompted Lee to re-read the work, and leave some additional marginal marks, completing a literary conversation. The marginal...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Estimating the cost of equity
Money & Business

Estimating the cost of equity

...et al. (2002) using historical returns during the period 1900–2000. They showed that, during this period, UK equities achieved mean annual nominal returns of 12.1% compared with 6.1% for UK gilts. Their work also demonstrated how three-month UK Treasury bills yielded, on average, an annual 5.1% in nominal terms over the same period. Therefore, in the past, companies...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...et al., 2014). The EU Kids Online Network project, called Zero to Eight, illustrates just how pervasive technology is becoming for younger children. The project report identified a significant increase over the previous five years of children under nine years old using the internet (Holloway et al., 2013). In particular it noted a growing trend for very young children...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Attention
Society, Politics & Law

Attention

...et al. (2002) used the Evett and Humphreys (1981) technique, but with modifications. As in the earlier study, they showed a potential prime (e.g. ‘lion’), followed by a hard-to-see masked target (e.g. ‘tiger’). However, there were two changes in this study. First, the priming word could be displayed either for a very short time, so that it was allegedly...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...institutions. The Iraq dossiers were a very good example of that. So was the – obviously – the 2008/9 crash, which dramatically undercut trust in financial institutions. We saw the parliamentary expenses scandal. We saw the hacking scandal in the Press. The BBC had all sorts of difficulties and it seemed like dominoes that all the institutions that had, as it were,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs