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Succeed with maths: part 1 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 1

...account, add a zero to the beginning of the 2nd line of working, as shown below. multiline equation line 1 3965 line 2 multiplication multiplication 25 low line line 3 19825 line 4 super four three two line 5 79300 low line line 6 super one one one line 7 99125 low line line 8 super one one The next activity will give you a chance to practise this. Here’s a reminder of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...account of Wakefield's hypothesis. Wakefield claims that research has found measles in the guts of 75 of 91 autistic children with bowel disease. 19 June 2002 Wakefield presents evidence to a US congressional committee claiming that the measles virus identified in the guts of autistic children had been identified by a team led by John O'Leary as originating from the...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...account that ‘diagnostic and therapeutic differences between the two entities’ were deemed ‘too small to warrant separate classification’ (Bschor et al., 2014). NOTE: (*) The time at which depression becomes ‘chronic’ by definition has been set, more or less arbitrarily, at two years. Chronic and treatment-resistant depression present the same symptoms as an...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...account of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1483, published three years later in Mainz (Figure 29). Figure 29 Erhard Reuwich, Saracens, from Bernhardt von Breydenbach’s Peregrinationes, 1486, woodcut. With permission of the British Library, shelf mark C.20.5.3. Yet another important source of oriental imagery is an arresting picture (now in the Louvre) by an unknown...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design
Science, Maths & Technology

Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design

...accountability, moderation and an open license to try and possibly fail, knowing you can always revert to the previous version. You don’t get that with design, because the changes are not granular and are not as easily traceable. The first step is steep, and a ladder is nowhere to be found. Encoding/Decoding In his 1980 article “Encoding/Decoding,” cultural theorist...
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EU Referendum - Economy
Society, Politics & Law

EU Referendum - Economy

...accounted for 45% of UK exports and 53% of imports (of goods and services) in 2014 , and EU membership is calculated to have increased this share by over 50%. National Policies International rules are both enabling and constraining. The EU surrendered some national power to “Brussels” when it joined the EU, and gave up more powers as the EU extended its Common...
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Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye
Health, Sports & Psychology

Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye

...accounts in the media repeatedly reinforced, how important these formal and informal rituals are for how we grieve. The absence of these important aspects may have a significant impact on the health and wellbeing of the bereaved. We still don’t know how these ongoing restrictions will impact on the long-term support needs of individuals and communities. But academics at...
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Article 20 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

...accounts of the barbarous nature of the slave trade on his wider travels around the Empire. By 1789 William Wilberforce had initiated an anti-slavery abolitionist campaign in Parliament, and while this in the long term proved decisive, the French Revolution of the same year and the slave rebellion in the French colony of Haiti initially poured cold water on this idea. Yet...
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Article 20 mins