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Hip Hop and the Institution
History & The Arts

Hip Hop and the Institution

...systems and educational practices or amplifying oppressed voices) and articulate political critique and push for social justice and decolonisation. With rising social inequalities, global threats like the resurgence of fascism, genocides and the climate collapse, the relationship between Hip Hop and the Institution will only become thornier, and so the conference has laid...
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Article 5 mins
Job Change and the Grief Cycle: The effects of losing our job or changing work role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Job Change and the Grief Cycle: The effects of losing our job or changing work role

...systems. The final stage of acceptance happens when they can see no more hope, leading to reconciliation with reality. If the individual can be motivated and seek new horizons and experiment at this stage, they will not continue to stay in the negative cycle of frustration, anger and disbelief. The grief that workers can feel, if they accept the situation, then accept and...
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Article 10 mins
Active Citizenship in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Active Citizenship in Wales

...system to keep you up to date your MP’s activity. Full Fact An independent fact checking organisation that can help confirm the validity of news coverage and social media stories. Snopes.com A useful reference source for researching global urban legends, folklore, myths, rumours, and misinformation. More OpenLearn collections The Open University supports the Sustainable...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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Article 12 mins
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...
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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...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs