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The Longitude Prize 2014 was a $10 million prize fund to help solve one of the greatest issues of our time. |
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people were invited to vot for one of the six challenges. |
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flight - how can we flight without damaging the environment? |
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dementia - how can we help people with dementia live independently for longer? |
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parAlysis - how can we restore movement to those with paralysis? |
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antibiotics - how can we prevent the rise of resistance to antibiotics? |
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water - how can we ensure everyone can have access to safe water? |
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food - how can we ensure everyone has nutritious, sustainable food? |
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vote on the top three ideas in your group. |
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which ones should get the most support? |
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listen to other students' ideas and take notes. |
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then vote on the top idea. |
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the environmental group Ocean project has projected that sea levels will rise one metre in the next fifty years. |
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fortunately, malaria has decreased in recent years, and the decrease is due to the use of nets and pesticides. |
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when a major charity appealed for donation to help the deaf, their record was broadcast mainly via radio. |
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bonnie tyler recorded her song Total eclipse of the heart in 1983, and in 2008 it set a record for the most popular karaoke track ever. |
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tourists in a well-known site were given permit to take photos, but they were not permitted to take in their cameras. |
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which country imports more japanese used cars than any other? canada, brazil or russia? |
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in india, which colours are unlucky to wrap a birthday present in? black and white, red and green or purple and yellow? |
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which fruit do some plant experts suspect was the earth's first? the apple, the banana or the pear? |
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which is the largest subtropical desert? the arabian, the kalahari or the sahara? |
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research shows what percentage of hommade dinners in the usa include vegetables? 43%, 63% or 93%? |
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how old was michael jackson when he recorded his first hit, i want you back? seven, nine or eleven? |
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which of these products is not among italy's top ten exports? machinery, pasta or furniture? |
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how many grams of honey does a worker bee produce in its lifetime? 50%, 80% or 95%? |
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how long did the shortest war on record last? 38 minutes, 38 hours or 38 days? |
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what is the aim of the organisation? how does it want to achieve it? |
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which of these ideas 1 - 8 are connected to the environment and which are connected to personal and social development? |
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in 2004, a small london-based community organisation called we are what we do published a book, change the world for a fiver. |
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it contained fifty simple actions which ordinary people could do to make the world a better place. |
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now it's a global movement with a lively website, millions of active participants and more than 130 ideas for actions. |
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its motto is: small actions x lots of people = big change. |
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use a biro from start to finish. |
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smile and smile back. |
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do sth you think you're unable to do. |
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buy fairly traded products. |
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remember people's names. |
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turn off the tap when you brush your teeth. |
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say "no" to plastic bags whenever possible. |
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learn one good joke. |
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in the 2008 olympics, usain bolt set three world records including the 100 metres. |
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if you stay in spain for more than ninety days you need to apply for a resident's permit. |
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cctv cameras have been successful, with a huge decrease in incidents of violence. |
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police have launched a nationwide appeal for help to find a missing sixteen-year-old. |
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the national gallery is planning to project gigantic images of picasso paintings onto the outside of the building. |
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the water for you scheme is a project to give hundreds of people access to clean water. |
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researchers have recorded South American river turtles talking to each other underwater. |
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the amount of ice at the south pole has been decreasing significantly over the last ten years. |
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students are permitted to work and study in this country. |
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environmentalists appeal to supermarkets to reduce the amount of food waste. |
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have you read this article? which one? |
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this is really shocking. this, look, look at this about surveillance techniques, on page three. oh yeah, yeah i did have a look. |
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there's gonna be absolutely no privacy for anyone. |
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what you mean like C, the CCTV camera bit? yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly that. |
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well i'm glad they're there actually. why? |
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well, not long ago a friend of mine he was, um, he was robbed at a bus stop, and, and they got the guy because of CCTV, they captured his image and um all the people who did it were arrested. ok. so i think it's, i think it's a good thing. |
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weel it's good if it's used for that, but don't you feel nervous about the fact that whatever you do, wherever you go, whatever you're doing, someone is watching you and recording what you're doing. |
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but i haven't got anything to hide so it's not really a problem. |
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anyway, that's not the point though is it, it's an invasion of privacy. |
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look, i think statistically more crimes are solved because of cctv than not. |
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right, what about that, that look - this one on page two -- cctv facial recognition did you see that bit there at the bottom? yeah, i didn't really get that bit. |
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right ,so basically, just imagine you're walking down the road and the camera, a cctv camera takes your picture, yeah. |
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and then a computer programme can then find your name, all your personal information, based on recognising your face. |
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so where you shop, where you live, what you, what you like, what you buy, who your friends are. |
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and there's nothing you can do about it. |
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that can only be a good thing, 'cos it's gonna catch criminals, isn't it? |
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and if you've got nothing to worry about then you know it's never really gonna be an issue for you. |
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if it's for that, yeah i get your point. but.. if you haven't done anything wrong. |
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no, no, absolutely, but.. |
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the thing that really bothers me though is, is the way that marketing, marketing companies can target you, um, because of microchips in, in food packaging and stuff. |
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so people get an idea of, of your shopping habits. |
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i don't want to be sent adverts from companies that i don't know. |
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but we're being sent stuff all the time anyway, from companies, that we don't know. |
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i wouldn't mind being sent adverts from, you know uh companies that i don't know if it's sth that i want to buy. |
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yeah, it's a little confusing really the way, i feel about the whole thing. |
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because you know on the one hand i'm pro using the technology to you know catch criminals or whatever. |
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i mean serious criminals. but then on the other hand i occasionally drive a little bit over the speed limit. |
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occasionally. and you know i've been given quite a few fines over the years because my number plate gets recognised. |
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and i you know i think more money should be spent elsewhere to be honest. |
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i take your point, but i do actually think, although i'm really anti the amount of kind of you know filming and information they have. |
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when it comes to speeding, i do actually think that's quite sensible that they can clock what people are doing. |
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you're going to read about a course that trains people to be spies. |
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despite recent developments in surveillance technology, a camera is no substiture for the human eye and there will always be a need for that most secretive of professions, the spy. |
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in the bbc3 series, spy, a group of eight volunteers took a two-month crash course in spying. |
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their trainers were former spies and experts in fields such as psychology and body language. |
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before they joined the course, the would-be spies were allowed to tell only one person what they were really doing. |
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for everyone else, they had to invent a believable cover story to explain their two-month absence. |
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a couple of them immediately got into trouble when their story of a two-month job in new york resulted in friends promising to visit them. |
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as soon as they arrived at headquarters and before they had time to unpack, the eight 'spies' faced their first challenge. |
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they had just ten minutes to talk their way into the flat of a complete stranger and be seen by their trainers drinking a glass of water on the balcony. |
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it's a great task and one often used by real spy agencies to test their spies' abilities to act under pressure and think up plausible reasons to gain access to places. |
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the recruits learnt about surveillance techniques including how to 'go grey' and dissapear into a crowd and also how to organise a surveillance operation on a house. |
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this meant breaking into a property, planting secret cameras and bugs and fixing tracking devices to cars. |
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another week, the recruits had to go undercover, adopt new identities and take temporary jobs in a gym, a clothes shop and a barber's. |
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they had to convince their co-workers that they were genuine, gain their trust and finally persuade one of them to do sth wrong, for example to lie or to sign a false document. |
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at the end of experience, what qualities did they think were important for being a spy? |
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a spy needs to be a quick thinker, work well under pressure and be able to blend in. |
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it helps to be a woman: "sandy, our female trainer, loved to remind us how women made better spies." |
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so if you're a tall male it's probably not worth applying. |
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and were any of the participants keen to become a spy? |
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