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Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change

...systems. The emergence of anthropogenic global warming as a major threat steered her research to focus on biological impacts of climate change in natural systems. Her research spans from field-based work on butterflies to synthetic analyses of global impacts on a broad range of species across terrestrial and marine biomes. She works actively with governmental agencies and...
Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud
Nature & Environment

Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud

...systems, but just at an incredible scale. This scale multiplies the cloud’s impact, both good and bad. Our job at an organisational IT level is to know how to recognise and minimise the negative, while promoting and accelerating the good. This article looks at just some of the ways cloud contributes to our digital carbon footprints from processing workloads to the...
Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One

...system is to denounce or condemn particular actions and to try to prevent them from happening again, then imprisonment is not the most efficient means of achieving these goals. Prison environments are full of power imbalances, racial and sexual violence, discrimination and hierarchical social relationships. All of these elements of the prison environment can, therefore,...
Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...systems used in the UK – The Système Internationale (SI) or International System, on which the metric system is based, and imperial. Both of these will be covered over the next two weeks, and this week will look in particular at measuring length. Watch the course author Maria Townsend introduce Week 1: Maria Townsend: This is my height measured in books, not a common...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change

...system, not principally for climate reasons but for air pollution reasons. Fossil fuels are both climate pollutants but they are also the main cause of localised air pollution and China’s cities are choking under diesel from cars and coal from nearby coal-fired power stations and China’s air quality is terrible, it has awful health effects. Many millions of people...
Algorithmic Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Algorithmic Design

...system and keep dialysis machines running. When we are online, the algorithms from companies such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook/Meta let us find information, recommend products and provide news based on what we like and who we are. But why should designers care about algorithms? Well, today design can’t be separated from computation. Algorithms can be used creatively...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...system. There is irony in democracy’s popularity. Only just over 200 years ago, to be a ‘democrat’ was to be on the political fringe, perhaps a dangerous radical. At the time of the American and French revolutions – often taken to be the twin birthplaces of modern democracy – ‘democracy’ still largely meant what we would call ‘direct democracy’. Direct...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...system (e.g.: the personal, the team and the wider organisation). They noted that the boundaries between levels are not always clear, particularly if people are trying to work in flexible and fluid ways. But they also noted that taking a multi-level view of inclusive leadership was an important consideration point within the literature. [Diagram of a circle cut into four,...