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Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...law clearly. Vela confirmed that what we believed for long and said so-- that we were right. People said we were not right. We were wrong. South Africa was only-- I was told by numerous foreign ministers, France, Germany, and Italy, that South Africa is only interested in peaceful nuisance. And so when this happened, we had to take a wider context and say, look, South...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...Law of Accelerating Returns [online], http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-accelerating-returns (Accessed 29 October 2012). Light, D.W. and Lexchin, J.R (2012) ‘Pharmaceutical research and development: what do we get for all that money?’, British Medical Journal, vol. 345, e4348. Linton, J.D. and Walsh, S.T. (2008) ‘A theory of innovation for process-based...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...law enforcement agencies? And the answer to that is no. I mean the Act puts in place the same sorts of safeguards and constraints that would apply to, for example, telephone interception. So, people have got to get a court order and an order from a senior minister to authorise, for a limited period at a time, an intercept. The same sorts of principles are applied to the...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...law. It's his brother-in-law's Mini, actually. I think they spent £300 and it cost three weeks and two near-divorces. [Figure 15] Figure 15 Mock-up steering system Figure 15 shows that the model looks nothing like the car that in 1997 made engineering history by smashing the barrier of sound! The Thrust team used mathematical and physical modelling intensively throughout...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...Law Centre, which supported three of the 20 managers, told Personnel Management that the performance assessments left too much to the discretion of the senior staff carrying out the appraisals. She said research found black managers were being awarded lower performance pay than their white colleagues. Some managers were failing to use the appraisal procedure correctly,...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...law is too complex a topic to deal with in any depth here; suffice it to say that a valid and binding marriage required only that the couple declare their mutual consent in the present tense – what the Duchess refers to as ‘a contract in a chamber, / Per verba de presenti’ (1.1.480–1). But in 1604, James I sought ‘to clarify the definition of marriage by taking...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Studying mammals: The opportunists
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The opportunists

...law of conservation of energy, which you may have heard of, allows only its conversion to another form. What is meant here is simply that such energy is lost from the food chain - the lost energy pops up in another form and ultimately all of it is 'lost' as heat.) This loss of energy at each stage explains why there are tens of millions of plants in an ecosystem, but only...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Climate justice for the next generation
Education & Development

Climate justice for the next generation

...laws to make sure people respect children's rights. But now everyone in society needs to help enforce and protect these rights from parents to educators and caregivers to children themselves. So all children, big or small, living in a village or city anywhere in the world are special in many different ways. And you all have these rights. Our rights are all connected to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs