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DNA Profiling
Science, Maths & Technology

DNA Profiling

...C). The order in which these nucleobases occur along the length of a DNA strand essentially determines the physical characteristics of an individual. DNA profiling uses techniques that can reveal small variations in the sequence of nucleobases from one person to another. DNA profiling techniques have become a powerful resource for modern forensic science, and have even...
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Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery
Science, Maths & Technology

Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery

...c) impact knocks the early-Earth titling its axis of rotation (changing its obliquity), excavation begins as vaporised and solid material is ejected from the impact site, d) ejected solid fragments and vaporised material spread further from the impact site, e) vaporised material dissipates and cools leaving larger ejected fragments to spread from the impact site, f)...
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School business manager: Developing the role
Education & Development

School business manager: Developing the role

...C. (1994), The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future, Arrow Books, London, pp. 50–51. Kelly, R. (2005), quoted in DfES (2005), Extended schools: providing opportunities and services for all. O'Sullivan, F., Thody, A. and Wood, E. (2000), From Bursar to School Business Manager, Pearson, Harlow. Further reading NCSL Bursar Development Programme...School business...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...C. (2018) ‘Empire Made Me – the autobiographical pulse in British Imperial History’ in A. Burton and D. Kennedy (Eds) How Empire Shaped Us, London. Bloomsbury. Appiah, K. (2004) ‘Language, Race and the Legacies of the British Empire’ in P. Morgan and S. Hawkins (eds) Black Experience and The Empire, Oxford. Oxford University Press. Baldwin, J. (1998) Baldwin:...
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Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...c.1826–1884) who had recently been captured by colonists. John Bull, the caricature representative of the British people, wonders what to do with him, while the man at the right of the cartoon is a showman who displayed African people in human ‘zoos’. From the weekly magazine Punch, or the London Charivari, 27 September 1879. Living Indigenous people, from parts of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
AI fluency
Digital & Computing

AI fluency

...c. Deep learning is a subset of AI, and machine learning is a subset of deep learning. d. AI, machine learning, and deep learning are three distinct and unrelated fields. The correct answer is b. Select the answer for 2 here Which algorithm would be the most appropriate for predicting house prices and why? Classification algorithms because they are used to sort data into...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Herodotus and the invention of history
History & The Arts

Herodotus and the invention of history

...c.484 – c.425 BCE) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria (Italy). He is known for having written the Histories – a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars. Herodotus was the first writer to perform systematic investigation of...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Tales of Trump told in Trumpian tones: Michael Wolff's Fire And Fury
Society, Politics & Law

Tales of Trump told in Trumpian tones: Michael Wolff's Fire And Fury

...la the Spycatcher affair in Britain in the 1980s. Several questions have arisen since Fire and Fury’s release, particularly regarding the reliability of some of Wolff’s claims as well as the book’s ‘usefulness’: has it provided any new insights, has it merely helped the Trump administration’s war against the American media, and so on. My take is that the book...
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