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Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...resources and waste. Taking account of environmental factors in decision making can be both complex and challenging. This free course, Introducing environmental decision making, considers decisions in their broader contexts and advocates a systems approach to environmental decision making...Many of the decisions we make have implications for our environment, particularly...
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity

...human beings, before examining a first-order pattern in the distribution of biodiversity on Earth and evaluating hypotheses that have been proposed to explain it. We then revisit the course taken by the Golden Globe sailors, and by looking again at the voyage made by own sailor Antoine Cousot, we investigate the biodiversity of islands, which are special and often...
Ethics Bites
History & The Arts

Ethics Bites

...Warnock about the ethics dilemmas of having children. Find out more about Mary, and ethics, at www.open2.net/ethicsbites. Human Use of Animals Peter Singer, possibly the most famous philosopher in the world, sparked the birth of the animal rights movement. Discover his take on the human use of animals. Find out more about Peter, and ethics, at www.open2.net/ethicsbites....
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HeadStart Classical Studies
History & The Arts

HeadStart Classical Studies

...humans human?’ and ‘should we eat animals?’. You will discover how Ovid’s mythical stories help us to answer these big questions by reading them alongside texts from ancient Pacific Islander myths to poetry by the contemporary British-Nigerian poet Patience Agbabi, and images like ancient vase paintings and modern Brazilian art. By exploring Ovid’s influence...
Ageing well by connecting and learning about nature outdoors
Science, Maths & Technology

Ageing well by connecting and learning about nature outdoors

...resources you can access from home for those days when one is not out. They will not only help you engage better and learn before you go out, but they also encourage sharing of ideas/observations with other like-minded people. From live wildlife cameras available on the web to various environments (e.g. Explore live cameras), to many learning resources which are to be...
Studying natural sciences bilingually
Science, Maths & Technology

Studying natural sciences bilingually

...resources – and so developing the ability to communicate with people who are involved in managing the natural environment is a really important thing to ensure that environmental policies are developed and supported by the general public, land managers and politicians. Studying the natural sciences in Welsh means that you have better opportunities of employment because...
Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage
Society, Politics & Law

Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage

...human often the category of human is defined via the creation and use of a signifying (arbitrary) language. Language is the human interface when it comes to external communication and also possibly contributing to shaping consciousness and selfhood (whether one subscribes to Lacanian theory or not, the ‘inner voice’ is partly linguistic). My practice focuses on...
Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited
OpenLearn Ireland

Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited

...human intelligence. The human psyche. The deviousness of the mind. As opposed to being shot by an arrow or a bullet (p.50) According to Gallagher’s nephew Daniel, his uncle had a cynical attitude towards the music industry and – in the same vein as a hardboiled detective – saw it as a ‘villain/mob type which he ha[d] to duck and weave in and out of to survive’....