- Agroforestry
Growing trees and crops together deliberately.
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- Finance
Pricing money across time and risk.
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- Philosophy
Careful argument about the questions other subjects assume answers to.
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- Agronomy
Field crops: soil, rotation, yield.
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- Animal husbandry
Keeping livestock healthy and productive.
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- Aquaculture
Farming fish and shellfish.
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- Baking
Bread and pastry, where process matters more than recipe.
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- Beekeeping
Keeping bees for pollination and honey.
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- Brewing and distilling
Fermenting and concentrating alcohol, including for non-drinking uses.
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- Butchery
Breaking down a carcass without waste.
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- Cheesemaking
Preserving milk as a stable food.
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- Composting
Turning waste into soil.
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- Cooking
Turning ingredients into meals, reliably.
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- Dairying
Managing milk from animal to product.
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- Fermentation
Controlled microbial transformation of food and drink.
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- Fishing
Taking fish, from a line or a net.
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- Food preservation
Making food last without refrigeration.
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- Food safety
Not poisoning people.
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- Foraging
Identifying wild food, and what will kill you.
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- Forestry
Managing woodland for timber, fuel, and continuity.
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- Horticulture
Growing plants intensively, at garden scale.
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- Hunting
Taking wild animals for food, lawfully and cleanly.
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- Irrigation
Getting water to crops without wasting or salting the land.
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- Milling
Turning grain into flour at usable scale.
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- Permaculture
Designing food systems to need fewer inputs each year.
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- Pest management
Losing less of the crop, without poisoning the field.
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- Plant propagation
Making more plants from the ones you have.
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- Seed saving
Keeping a crop reproducible without buying in.
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- Acting
Performing a character convincingly.
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- Animation
Motion built frame by frame.
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- Architecture
Designing buildings and the spaces between them.
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- Calligraphy
Writing as a deliberate visual craft.
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- Ceramics
Forming and firing clay.
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- Cinematography
Telling a story with a camera.
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- Musical composition
Making new music.
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- Dance
Movement as form and as social practice.
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- Drawing
Putting down what you see, or what you mean.
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- Fashion design
Designing clothing as object and as signal.
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- Game design
Designing rules and systems people choose to inhabit.
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- Graphic design
Arranging type and image so a message lands.
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- Illustration
Images made to accompany or explain.
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- Industrial design
Designing objects to be made and used.
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- Interior design
Designing the inside of buildings for use.
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- Landscape architecture
Designing land for people and for water.
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- Music performance
Playing an instrument or singing, well.
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- Music theory
How music is constructed and notated.
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- Painting
Colour, surface, and image.
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- Photography
Making images with light and a lens.
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- Printmaking
Reproducing an image many times by hand process.
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- Screenwriting
Writing for the screen.
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- Sculpture
Form in three dimensions.
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- Sound design
Constructing what a thing sounds like.
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- Textile arts
Making and decorating cloth.
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- Theatre
Live performance, from text to staging.
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- Typography
Letterforms, and setting text so it can be read.
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- Accounting
Recording what a business owns, owes, and earned.
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- Advertising
Paid persuasion at scale, and how to recognise it.
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- Auditing
Independently checking that the numbers are true.
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- Banking
How deposits, lending, and payment actually work.
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- Business strategy
Choosing where to compete and what not to do.
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- Cooperatives and mutual organisation
Owning and running things collectively.
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- Corporate finance
How firms raise and allocate capital.
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- E-commerce
Selling online, and the platforms that mediate it.
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- Entrepreneurship
Starting something that pays for itself.
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- Hospitality management
Running places that feed and house people.
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- Human resources
Hiring, paying, and dismissing people lawfully.
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- Insurance
Pooling risk, and reading what is excluded.
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- Investing
Deploying savings, and understanding what you are charged.
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- Logistics
Moving and storing physical things at scale.
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- Management
Getting work done through other people.
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- Marketing
Finding and persuading buyers.
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- Negotiation
Reaching agreement without leaving value or dignity behind.
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- Operations management
Running a process that produces reliably.
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- Organisational behaviour
Why institutions behave unlike the people in them.
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- Personal finance
Running your own money deliberately.
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- Project management
Delivering something finite with a deadline.
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- Real estate
Land and buildings as an asset and an obligation.
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- Retail
Selling to the public, in person and at margin.
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- Sales
Getting agreement to an exchange.
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- Supply chain management
Getting inputs to where they are needed, on time.
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- Taxation
What is owed, to whom, and on what basis.
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- Adult education
Teaching people who have jobs, habits, and fear.
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- Assessment
Finding out what someone actually knows.
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- Curriculum design
Deciding what is taught, in what order.
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- Early childhood education
The years that set the trajectory.
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- Educational psychology
How learning works, empirically.
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- Instructional design
Building learning materials that work without you present.
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- Teaching literacy
Getting a person from not reading to reading.
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- Pedagogy
How to teach so that people actually learn.
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- Special education
Teaching where the standard approach fails.
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- Aerospace engineering
Flight, inside and outside the atmosphere.
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- AI safety and alignment
Making capable systems do what was intended.
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- Appropriate technology
Solutions matched to local materials, skills, and repairability.
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- Artificial intelligence
Systems that perform tasks previously requiring human judgement.
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- Automotive engineering
Vehicles and their drivetrains.
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- Biomedical engineering
Devices that go in or on bodies.
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- Chemical engineering
Running chemistry at industrial scale.
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- Civil engineering
Roads, bridges, dams, and the built environment.
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- Computer architecture
How a processor is actually built.
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- Computer graphics
Producing images by computation.
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- Computer networks
How machines talk, from cables to protocols.
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- Computer vision
Getting machines to interpret images.
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- Cryptography
Making messages unreadable to everyone but the recipient.
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- Cybersecurity
Defending systems against people who want in.
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- Databases
Storing data so it can be queried and trusted.
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- Distributed systems
Coordination when no single machine knows everything.
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- Electrical engineering
Generating, moving, and using electrical power.
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- Electronics
Circuits that compute, sense, and control.
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- Embedded systems
Software running inside physical devices.
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- Environmental engineering
Water treatment, air quality, and waste.
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- Geotechnical engineering
What the ground will bear before it moves.
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- Human-computer interaction
Designing systems around how people actually behave.
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- Heating, ventilation and air conditioning
Keeping indoor air liveable.
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- Industrial engineering
Making processes and workplaces work better.
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- Machine learning
Fitting models to data so they generalise.
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- Manufacturing and production
Making many of something, repeatably.
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- Marine engineering
Ships, propulsion, and staying afloat.
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- Mechanical engineering
Machines that move, and the forces inside them.
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- Mechatronics
The junction of mechanical, electronic, and software design.
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- Metallurgy
Extracting, alloying, and heat-treating metals.
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- Natural language processing
Computation over human language.
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- Nuclear engineering
Reactors, fuel cycles, and containment.
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- Operating systems
The layer that manages hardware for everything else.
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- Power systems
Grids: generation, transmission, and keeping frequency stable.
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- Programming
Instructing a computer precisely.
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- Quantum computing
Computation exploiting superposition and entanglement.
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- Refrigeration
Moving heat out of things, which is how food keeps.
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- Renewable energy technology
Capturing energy from sun, wind, water, and heat.
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- Robotics
Machines that sense, decide, and act.
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- Signal processing
Extracting information from noisy measurements.
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- Software engineering
Building software that survives contact with other people.
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- Structural engineering
Making sure buildings stand up under load.
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- Surveying
Establishing where things are, precisely.
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- Systems engineering
Managing complexity when the parts must work together.
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- Telecommunications
Carrying signals over distance.
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- Water treatment
Making water safe to drink and safe to return.
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- Web development
Building things people use in a browser.
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- Biodiversity
What is being lost, and why it matters instrumentally and otherwise.
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- Circular economy
Designing so that outputs become inputs.
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- Climate change
The physical basis, the projections, and the uncertainty.
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- Disaster risk reduction
Reducing what a predictable disaster costs.
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- Energy systems
Where energy comes from, and what it costs to move.
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- Environmental monitoring
Measuring what is happening to air, water, and soil.
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- Environmental science
The biosphere studied as an interacting system.
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- Land management
Using land without destroying its capacity.
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- Renewable energy systems
Building an energy supply that does not burn carbon.
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- Sustainability
Meeting present needs without foreclosing future ones.
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- Waste management
Dealing with what is thrown away.
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- Water resources
Allocating a finite and unevenly distributed supply.
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- Abstract algebra
Groups, rings, and fields — structure stripped of content.
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- Algebra
Reasoning about quantities you do not yet know the value of.
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- Algorithms
Systematic procedures, and the cost of running them.
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- Arithmetic
Counting, the four operations, fractions, and percentages.
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- Bayesian inference
Updating beliefs in proportion to evidence.
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- Calculus
Rates of change and accumulation.
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- Category theory
Structure-preserving maps as a language for mathematics itself.
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- Combinatorics
Counting arrangements, and proving you have counted them all.
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- Complex analysis
Calculus over the complex numbers.
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- Computability theory
What can be computed at all, and what provably cannot.
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- Computational complexity
What can be computed in reasonable time.
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- Control theory
Keeping a system on target despite disturbance.
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- Mathematics of cryptography
The number theory and algebra that make secrets keepable.
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- Data structures
How data is arranged so it can be found again.
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- Differential equations
Describing systems by how they change.
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- Differential geometry
Curvature and manifolds; the language of general relativity.
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- Dynamical systems
How systems evolve, and when small differences stop being small.
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- Formal languages and automata
Grammars, machines, and what each class of machine can recognise.
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- Game theory
Decisions where the outcome depends on what others choose.
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- Geometry
Shape, distance, angle, and proof.
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- Graph theory
Networks of nodes and edges, and what can be computed on them.
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- Information theory
Quantifying information, compression, and the limits of communication.
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- Linear algebra
Vectors, matrices, and the mathematics behind most computation.
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- Mathematical logic
Formal systems, validity, and the limits of proof.
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- Number theory
The integers, primes, and the arithmetic that secures modern cryptography.
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- Numerical methods
Getting usable answers when exact ones are unavailable.
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- Operations research
Mathematics applied to logistics, scheduling, and allocation.
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- Optimization
Finding the best option under constraints.
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- Probability
Reasoning quantitatively about uncertainty.
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- Real analysis
The rigorous foundations under calculus.
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- Set theory
The standard foundation on which the rest of mathematics is built.
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- Statistics
Drawing conclusions from data, and knowing when you cannot.
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- Topology
Properties preserved under continuous deformation.
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- Trigonometry
Relating angles to lengths; the basis of surveying and navigation.
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- Type theory
Formal systems where every term carries a type; the basis of proof assistants.
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- Addiction medicine
Dependence, withdrawal, and what actually helps.
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- Clinical medicine
Diagnosis and treatment of disease in individuals.
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- Clinical psychology
Assessment and non-pharmacological treatment of mental distress.
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- Dentistry
Teeth, and the systemic consequences of neglecting them.
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- Emergency medicine
Acute care when time is the binding constraint.
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- First aid
Keeping someone alive until help arrives.
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- Geriatrics
Medicine for old bodies, which fail differently.
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- Herbalism and traditional medicine
Plant-based treatment as historically practised, and what evidence supports it.
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- Medical ethics
Consent, autonomy, triage, and the limits of intervention.
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- Midwifery
Care through pregnancy, birth, and after.
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- Nursing
The continuous care that determines whether treatment works.
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- Nutrition
What food does in a body over years.
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- Occupational health
Illness and injury caused by work.
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- Paediatrics
Medicine for growing bodies.
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- Palliative care
Care when cure is not the goal.
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- Pathology
What disease does to tissue, and how it is identified.
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- Pharmacology
What drugs do, at what dose, and what they interact with.
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- Physiotherapy
Restoring movement after injury or illness.
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- Psychiatry
Medical treatment of mental illness.
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- Public health
Health at the population level: water, vaccines, surveillance, policy.
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- Reproductive health
Fertility, contraception, pregnancy, and sexual health.
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- Sanitation and hygiene
Separating people from waste, which saves more lives than medicine.
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- Sleep science
What sleep does and what its absence costs.
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- Sports science
Training, load, recovery, and performance.
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- Surgery
Treating by physical intervention.
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- Veterinary medicine
Animal health, including the animals people eat and work with.
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- Aesthetics
Beauty, taste, and what art is for.
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- Ancient history
The earliest societies with written records.
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- Art history
What was made, when, and what it meant then.
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- Classical languages
Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Classical Chinese and their kin.
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- Classics
Greek and Roman language, literature, and thought.
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- Comparative literature
Literature read across languages and traditions.
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- Creative writing
Making things out of language deliberately.
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- Epistemology
What knowledge is and when belief is justified.
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- Ethics
What we owe each other, and how to reason about it.
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- Film studies
Cinema as form, industry, and record.
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- Historiography
How history is written, and by whom.
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- History
What happened, how we know, and why accounts differ.
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- History of science
How knowledge was actually established, mistakes included.
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- History of technology
How tools and processes developed, and what depended on what.
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- Language learning
Acquiring a language you were not raised in.
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- Library and information science
Organising knowledge so it can be found again.
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- Writing systems and palaeography
Scripts, their decipherment, and reading old hands.
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- Literature
Reading closely and reading widely.
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- Medieval history
The long middle of the recorded past.
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- Metaphysics
What there is, and what kind of thing it is.
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- Military history
War, and the institutions built around it.
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- Modern history
The last few centuries, which produced the present arrangement.
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- Musicology
Music studied as history, structure, and practice.
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- Mythology
The stories cultures tell to explain themselves.
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- Oral history
Recording testimony before the people holding it die.
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- Philosophy of mind
Consciousness, intentionality, and the mind-body relation.
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- Philosophy of science
What makes an explanation scientific, and what science cannot settle.
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- Poetry
Language used for compression and effect.
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- Political philosophy
Legitimacy, justice, liberty, and the grounds of authority.
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- Religious studies
Religions described from outside, comparatively.
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- Rhetoric
How persuasion works, from both sides of it.
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- Theology
Religions reasoned about from inside.
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- Translation
Carrying meaning between languages, and what is lost.
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- World history
The past told without assuming one region is the centre.
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- Archives and preservation
Keeping records readable across centuries.
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- Bioethics
Moral questions raised by biology and medicine.
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- Bootstrapping technology
The dependency chain from hand tools to industry.
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- Cartography
Making maps, and the choices a map conceals.
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- Cognitive security
Defending populations against manipulation at scale.
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- Complexity science
Systems whose behaviour is not readable from their parts.
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- Digital humanities
Computational methods applied to cultural material.
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- Disaster response
Coordinated action when normal services have stopped.
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- Existential and catastrophic risk
Threats that would end or permanently diminish humanity.
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- Futures studies
Thinking rigorously about what has not happened yet.
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- Indigenous knowledge systems
Long-tested local knowledge held outside academic institutions.
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- Innovation studies
How new things actually get adopted.
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- Nanotechnology
Engineering at the scale of molecules.
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- Network science
Structure and dynamics of connected things.
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- Science communication
Explaining findings honestly to people outside the field.
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- Space settlement
Living off Earth, and what it would require.
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- Standards and interoperability
Agreeing on specifications so things fit together.
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- Synthetic biology
Engineering organisms to specification.
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- Timekeeping and calendars
Measuring time and agreeing on it.
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- Administrative law
Challenging decisions made by public bodies.
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- Civil procedure
How a dispute actually moves through a court.
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- Constitutional law
The rules that constrain the state itself.
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- Contract law
When a promise binds, and what happens when it breaks.
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- Criminal law
What is prohibited, and what the state must prove.
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- Diplomacy
Managing relations short of force.
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- Electoral systems
How votes become seats, and why the rule matters.
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- Employment law
Rights and duties between employer and worker.
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- Environmental law
Legal constraints on damage to the commons.
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- Law of evidence
What a court may consider, and why.
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- Family law
Marriage, separation, children, and money between them.
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- Human rights law
Claims held against the state by virtue of being a person.
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- Intellectual property
Copyright, patents, trademarks, and licensing.
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- International law
Rules between states, and their limits.
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- Jurisprudence
What law is and where its authority comes from.
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- Legal reasoning
How legal arguments are built and tested.
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- Parliamentary procedure
Running a meeting so decisions are legitimate.
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- Property law
Ownership, possession, and the difference.
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- Public administration
Running the state's machinery.
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- Regulation
Rule-making for industries, and who captures it.
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- Tort law
Civil wrongs and compensation for harm.
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- Anatomy
The structure of bodies and where everything is.
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- Animal behaviour
What animals do and why.
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- Bioinformatics
Computation applied to biological data.
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- Biotechnology
Engineering living systems to do useful work.
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- Botany
Plants: identification, structure, and function.
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- Cell biology
The unit all living things are built from.
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- Conservation biology
Keeping species and habitats from disappearing.
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- Developmental biology
How one cell becomes an organism.
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- Ecology
How organisms interact with each other and their surroundings.
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- Entomology
Insects, including the ones that pollinate and the ones that destroy.
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- Epidemiology
How disease moves through populations, and how you would know.
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- Ethnobotany
What particular peoples know about particular plants.
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- Evolutionary biology
Descent with modification, and why it explains so much.
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- Genetics
Inheritance, variation, and the molecule that carries them.
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- Immunology
How bodies distinguish self from threat.
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- Marine biology
Life in the sea.
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- Microbiology
Organisms too small to see, most of which matter enormously.
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- Molecular biology
How DNA becomes protein, and how that is regulated.
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- Mycology
Fungi: decomposition, fermentation, medicine, and poison.
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- Neuroscience
The nervous system, from ion channels to behaviour.
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- Parasitology
Organisms that live at the expense of others.
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- Physiology
How the parts of a living body actually work.
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- Toxicology
Dose, exposure, and harm.
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- Virology
Viruses, their replication, and their spread.
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- Zoology
Animals: diversity, anatomy, and behaviour.
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- Argumentation and debate
Holding a position, and changing it when you should.
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- Attention
Defending your own focus from things engineered to take it.
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- Cognitive biases
Systematic errors your own mind makes.
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- Collaboration
Working with people who are not like you.
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- Creativity
Producing options nobody handed you.
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- Critical thinking
Evaluating claims and arguments on their merits.
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- Decision-making
Choosing well under uncertainty and time pressure.
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- Design thinking
Starting from the person who will use the thing.
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- Epistemic humility
Knowing the shape of what you do not know.
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- Giving and receiving feedback
Saying the useful thing, and hearing it.
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- Forecasting
Making calibrated predictions and scoring them.
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- Goal setting
Choosing what to aim at, and noticing when to stop.
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- Habit formation
Changing what you do by default.
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- Working across disciplines
Talking to specialists outside your own field.
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- Leadership
Taking responsibility for a group's direction.
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- Learning how to learn
Spacing, retrieval, difficulty, and what does not work.
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- Logical fallacies
Named ways arguments go wrong.
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- Memory techniques
Deliberate methods for retaining things.
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- Mentoring
Developing someone over years.
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- Note-taking
Capturing what you will need later.
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- Problem solving
Getting from stuck to unstuck methodically.
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- Reading strategies
Reading hard things without stalling.
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- Research methods
Finding out something nobody has told you.
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- Statistical literacy
Reading a number in the news without being fooled by it.
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- Systems thinking
Seeing feedback, delay, and unintended consequence.
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- Teaching others
Transmitting what you know without losing it in transit.
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- Analytical chemistry
Determining what a sample actually contains.
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- Astronomy
Observing what is beyond the atmosphere.
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- Astrophysics
The physics of stars, galaxies, and what they are made of.
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- Biochemistry
The chemistry that living things run on.
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- Classical mechanics
Force, motion, and energy at everyday scales.
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- Climatology
The atmosphere over decades and centuries.
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- Condensed matter physics
Why solids and liquids have the properties they do.
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- Cosmology
The origin, structure, and fate of the universe.
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- Electromagnetism
Charge, current, fields, and light.
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- General chemistry
Atoms, bonds, reactions, and stoichiometry.
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- Geology
Rock, structure, and the history written in them.
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- Geomorphology
How landscapes are shaped and reshaped.
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- Hydrology
Where water goes, and how much of it there is.
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- Inorganic chemistry
Everything carbon-based chemistry leaves out, including most industry.
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- Materials science
Why materials fail, and how to choose one that will not.
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- Meteorology
Forecasting the atmosphere over days.
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- Metrology and measurement
Defining units and making measurements that agree.
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- Mineralogy
Identifying minerals and knowing what they are good for.
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- Nuclear physics
Binding, fission, fusion, and radiation.
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- Oceanography
The physics, chemistry, and biology of the sea.
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- Optics
How light behaves, and how to bend it deliberately.
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- Organic chemistry
The chemistry of carbon, and therefore of life and materials.
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- Paleontology
Life before records, read from what it left behind.
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- Particle physics
The current inventory of fundamental constituents.
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- Physical chemistry
Chemistry approached through thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
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- Physical geography
The distribution of natural features and why it matters.
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- Planetary science
Worlds as physical objects with histories.
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- Quantum mechanics
The physics of the very small, and the basis of modern electronics.
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- Relativity
Space and time as one thing, deformed by mass and motion.
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- Seismology
Earthquakes, and reading the Earth's interior from waves.
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- Soil science
What soil is, how it is built, and how it is destroyed.
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- Thermodynamics
Heat, work, entropy, and why engines cannot be perfect.
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- Password and account security
Not losing control of your digital identity.
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- Addiction and substance awareness
Risk, dependence, and harm reduction.
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- Using a bank account
Accounts, payments, fees, and disputing a transaction.
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- Claiming benefits and welfare
Finding out what you are entitled to and obtaining it.
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- Boundaries and consent
Saying no, and hearing it.
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- Budgeting
Knowing what comes in, what goes out, and what is left.
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- Childcare
Looking after children safely, including other people's.
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- Cleaning and household hygiene
Keeping a home from making you ill.
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- Community organising
Getting a group of people to change something.
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- Conflict resolution
Getting past a disagreement without destroying the relationship.
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- Consumer rights
Refunds, faulty goods, and complaining effectively.
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- Reading a contract
Understanding what you are agreeing to before you sign.
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- Credit and debt
Borrowing, interest, and what compounding does against you.
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- CVs and applications
Presenting your work credibly on paper.
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- The administration of death
Registering, notifying, and closing a life's paperwork.
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- Digital privacy
What is collected about you and what you can do about it.
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- Supporting disabled people
Access, adjustment, and not speaking over someone.
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- Driving
Operating a vehicle safely in traffic.
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- Caring for older people
Supporting someone whose independence is declining.
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- Emergency preparedness
Water, light, heat, medicine, and a plan.
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- Manners and social convention
The local rules nobody writes down.
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- Exercise and fitness
Keeping a body capable across a life.
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- Fire safety
Preventing fire, and what to do when there is one.
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- Freelancing and self-employment
Pricing, invoicing, and chasing payment.
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- Gardening
Growing things at domestic scale.
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- Grief and bereavement
Surviving loss, and supporting someone who is in it.
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- Navigating healthcare
Getting seen, getting referred, and advocating for someone.
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- Home maintenance
Keeping a dwelling dry, warm, and safe.
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- Immigration and residency processes
Visas, status, and the paperwork of belonging somewhere.
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- Verifying information
Checking whether a claim, image, or source is what it says.
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- Job interviews and applications
Getting hired.
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- Jury service
What is asked of you, and why it matters.
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- Clothing care and repair
Making clothes last.
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- Listening
Understanding what someone actually means.
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- Local government
The tier of the state that decides most of your surroundings.
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- Meal planning and food budgeting
Eating well on limited money and time.
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- Media literacy
Reading news as a produced artefact with interests behind it.
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- Looking after your mental health
Recognising decline, and knowing what helps.
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- Mortgages and buying a home
The largest contract most people ever sign.
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- Navigation and map reading
Knowing where you are without being told.
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- Everyday nutrition
Eating in a way that does not quietly harm you.
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- Online safety
Harassment, doxxing, and protecting others online.
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- Parenting
Raising a child day to day.
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- Animal care at home
Keeping a dependent animal well.
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- Public speaking
Saying something to a room without falling apart.
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- Relationships
Building and maintaining close relationships deliberately.
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- Remote and distributed work
Working well without a shared room.
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- Renting a home
Deposits, repairs, notice, and eviction.
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- Recognising scams and fraud
How you are targeted, and what the tells are.
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- Self-defence and personal safety
Avoiding, de-escalating, and if necessary escaping violence.
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- Sexual health and consent
Contraception, infection, and negotiating consent.
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- Sleep
Getting enough, and what happens when you do not.
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- Swimming
Not drowning, and helping someone who is.
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- Filing your taxes
Getting a return right and on time.
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- Time management
Deciding what not to do.
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- Using hand and power tools
Working safely with the basic kit.
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- Volunteering and mutual aid
Contributing labour where money is not the mechanism.
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- Voting
Registering, and knowing what you are actually choosing.
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- Wills, probate, and inheritance
Arranging what happens to what you leave.
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- Workplace rights
What your employer may and may not do.
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- Writing clearly
Being understood in writing the first time.
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- Anthropology
Human ways of living, studied by immersion and comparison.
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- Archaeology
The human past reconstructed from material remains.
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- Behavioural economics
How real decisions depart from the rational model.
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- Cognitive science
Mind as an information-processing system.
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- Communication studies
How messages are constructed and received.
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- Computational social science
Studying societies through large-scale behavioural data.
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- Criminology
Crime, punishment, and what actually reduces harm.
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- Demography
Births, deaths, migration, and the shape of populations.
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- Development economics
Why some places are poor and what changes that.
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- Developmental psychology
How minds change from infancy to old age.
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- Economic history
How present arrangements came to be, empirically.
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- Economics
How societies allocate scarce things.
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- Gender studies
Gender as a social structure and an analytic lens.
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- Geopolitics
Power read through geography and resources.
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- Human geography
How people organise themselves across space.
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- International relations
How states and other actors deal with each other.
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- Linguistics
The structure of language, described rather than prescribed.
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- Macroeconomics
Inflation, unemployment, growth, and the levers over them.
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- Media studies
How media industries shape what gets said and seen.
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- Microeconomics
Choices of individuals and firms, and prices as their result.
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- Peace and conflict studies
Why violence starts, and what ends it.
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- Political science
How power is acquired, held, and constrained.
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- Psychology
Mind and behaviour studied empirically.
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- Public policy
Designing and evaluating what governments do.
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- Science and technology studies
Science as a human institution with interests and politics.
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- Social psychology
How the presence of others changes behaviour.
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- Social work
Practical intervention in people's crises.
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- Sociolinguistics
How language marks class, region, and identity.
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- Sociology
How groups, institutions, and inequalities work.
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- Urban planning
Deciding how cities grow, and who benefits.
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- Appliance repair
Fixing rather than replacing household machines.
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- Basketry
Weaving containers from what grows nearby.
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- Bicycle repair
Maintaining the most efficient machine there is.
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- Blacksmithing
Shaping hot metal by hand.
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- Boatbuilding
Building craft that float and handle.
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- Bookbinding
Assembling pages into something that survives.
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- Cabinetmaking
Furniture built to last generations.
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- Carpentry
Building structures and fittings from timber.
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- Charcoal and fuel production
Making fuel that burns hot enough to work metal.
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- Electrical installation
Wiring buildings safely.
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- Electronics repair
Diagnosing and fixing circuits and devices.
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- Foundry and casting
Melting metal and pouring it to shape.
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- Glassblowing
Forming glass while it is molten.
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- Glazing
Fitting glass, and making buildings warm.
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- Joinery
Fine timber work: doors, windows, stairs, furniture.
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- Knitting
Making fabric from a single yarn.
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- Leatherwork
Making durable goods from hide.
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- Locksmithing
Locks, keys, and lawful entry.
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- Machining
Cutting metal to tolerance — the trade that makes other machines.
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- Masonry and bricklaying
Building in brick, block, and mortar.
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- Metalworking
Cutting, forming, and joining metal.
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- Papermaking
Making a surface to write and print on.
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- Plastering and rendering
Finishing walls and protecting them.
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- Plumbing
Water in, waste out, without leaks.
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- Pottery
Vessels from clay, thrown or built.
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- Roofing
Keeping weather out of a building.
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- Ropemaking and knots
Making cordage, and using it correctly.
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- Sewing and mending
Making and repairing cloth goods.
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- Shoemaking and repair
Making and mending footwear.
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- Small engine repair
Keeping pumps, generators, and saws running.
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- Soap and candle making
Basic chemistry for hygiene and light.
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- Spinning
Turning fibre into thread.
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- Stonemasonry
Cutting and setting stone.
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- Tailoring
Making clothes that fit a specific body.
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- Tanning
Turning skin into leather.
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- Thatching
Roofing with reed or straw.
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- Toolmaking
Making the tools other trades depend on.
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- Vehicle maintenance
Keeping a vehicle safe and running.
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- Watchmaking
Precision mechanism at small scale.
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- Weaving
Making cloth on a loom.
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- Welding
Joining metal permanently.
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- Well digging and water sourcing
Finding and reaching groundwater.
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