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Introduction to business agility
Money & Business

Introduction to business agility

...astronomy, the wait time could be considered the ‘dark matter’ of your system of work. By visualising and tackling this wait time, you can achieve radical performance improvement. In most large organisations where there has been no historic focus on optimisation, the flow efficiency associated with work is below 10%: in other words, for over 90% of the time, work is...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
The formation of exoplanets
Science, Maths & Technology

The formation of exoplanets

...Astronomy), C. Robert O’Dell (Rice University), and NASA/ESA, https://esahubble.org/images/opo9545b/, released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Figure 1b: NASA/ESA/CSA; Data reduction and analysis: PDRs4All ERS Team; Graphical processing: Fuenmayor, S. and Berne, O. Figure 2: ESO/J. Girard...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Egyptian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Egyptian mathematics

...Astronomy', in J.R. Harris (ed.), The Legacy of Egypt, Oxford, 1971, pp. 37-40, 45. Herodotus, History, II, 109; tr. A. D. Godley, Heinemann, 1920. Plato, Phaedrus, 274 cd; tr. H. Cary, Bell & Daldy, 1872. Proclus, On Euclid, I; tr. I. Thomas, Greek Mathematical Works I, Heinemann, 1939, pp. 145-147...Egyptian mathematics: Acknowledgements - Except for third party...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
The restless Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

The restless Universe

...astronomy. Bacon's independence of mind brought him into conflict with the church, and he suffered fifteen years of imprisonment for heresy. Nonetheless, he helped to prepare the way for those who, irrespective of their own religious beliefs, insisted that the scientific investigation of Nature should be rooted in experiment and conducted on a purely rational basis,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits Badge icon
Education & Development

Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits

...astronomy, and a natural scientist, and also distinguished himself as a historian, chronologist, and linguist. Leonardo da Vinci, regarded by many historians and scholars as a universal genius. His areas of interest spanned a wide range of subjects, from invention, painting, and sculpting, to architecture, science, music, mathematics, and engineering. The list goes on....
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...astronomy which deals with the motion of bodies in space – and was the author of a monumental five-volume work, Mécanique Céleste, published between 1799 and 1825, which was the intellectual successor to Newton’s Principia. The first two volumes of it were expanded and translated into English as the Mechanism of the Heavens (1831) by the Scottish mathematician, Mary...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Goya
History & The Arts

Goya

...astronomy and the arts. Although we cannot infer from this any clear allegiance by Goya to the ideals of the Enlightenment, he did frequent a milieu receptive to Enlightenment ideas, even if these ideas were not yet widespread in Spain as a whole. You may have noticed that they were largely restricted to court circles and to the ruling intelligentsia. His advertisement...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...astronomy’ (3.1.2), Faustus scaled Mount Olympus ‘in a chariot burning bright / Drawn by the strength of yoky dragons' necks’ (3.1.5–6). This sounds anything but a hollow experience, and when discussing Acts 3 and 4 we should give due weight to the descriptions Marlowe provides of activities he was unable to enact on stage, especially given that these descriptions...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs