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Legal skills and debates in Scotland Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...account many matters which are not to be found within the statute itself. Legislation is not made in a vacuum, and a judge in interpreting it is able to take judicial notice of much information relating to legal, social, economic and other aspects of the society in which the statute is to operate. We do not think it would serve a useful purpose to attempt to provide...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...account for the biggest part of an UK individual’s average direct carbon footprint (70% of the total) other important carbon footprints arise from powering appliances, including electronic equipment, and lights (13%) and holiday air travel (12%) (25% of the total) cooking (3%) and other travel (public transport and motorcycles, 2%) create relatively minor average...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
The restless Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

The restless Universe

...account of the gravitational influence of both the Earth and the Sun), the behaviour of comets, and the gravitational origin of the Earth's oceanic tides. The scope and power of Principia caused a sensation, and made Newton the foremost scientist of his time, or perhaps any time. [Figure 11] Figure 11Principia - Newton's masterpiece Newton suffered another breakdown in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing the voluntary sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...account for their delivery. They also have a council with elected and appointed members. Funding: the National Trust’s funding comes from membership fees (it has 3.7 million members!), donations, legacies and revenue from their commercial operations (shops, holiday cottages, cafés, etc.). They do not directly receive money from government, whereas many charities do –...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The body in antiquity
History & The Arts

The body in antiquity

...accounts of our bodily routines, they would, even if they had nothing else, already be able to say a great deal about us: the alarm clock would tell them that our society had the concept of the regular working day; our clothes would tell about which parts of our body we considered proper to cover, what it was acceptable to reveal, and how we constructed gender and other...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
The secret history of teenage bedrooms
Education & Development

The secret history of teenage bedrooms

...account is really seminal inasmuch as it’s getting us to think about the why girls were not appearing in discourses about youth culture, about young people in public spaces and one of their arguments was that that was because young women were primarily living out their cultural lives in the domestic sphere, their bedrooms were about training up to be wives and mothers,...
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Article 10 mins
How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth
Science, Maths & Technology

How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth

...accounts for less than one millionth of the total mass of the planet. The atmospheric pressure and density of air decrease exponentially with height above the surface. The term ‘exponentially’ means that for every increase in height by the same distance, the atmospheric density falls by the same factor. In the case of the Earth, density halves for every increase of...
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Article 20 mins
How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...account: the long-term result, you’ll be left with zero.” Vanlauwe has worked intensively on what are called “nonresponsive soils,” soils that do not gain in fertility by adding nitrogen- and phosphorus-based fertilisers or other “improvements”. He says reversing nonresponsiveness is difficult – it’s a particularly resilient state, even if it is not a...
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