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Lawrence Breen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lawrence Breen - Earth in Vision

...Researcher, shares his insights on the technical and creative issues surrounding the use of archive for natural history and environmental broadcasting. ...Lawrence Breen Lawrence started working for the BBC Natural History Unit in 1988 as a Library Clerk, after gaining a degree in American Studies from Hull University. Following a series of successful attachments...
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Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...research positions at University College London, McGill University (Montreal), Columbia University (New York) and University of Hawai'I (Honolulu). Since 1993 he is Professor of Climate and Environmental Physics at the University of Bern. From 2008 to 2015 he co-chaired Working Group I "The Physical Science Basis" of the IPCC, the United Nations Inter-governmental Panel...
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Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?
Languages

Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?

...researchers are finding a swathe of health benefits from speaking more than one language, including faster stroke recovery and delayed onset of dementia. Could it be that the human brain evolved to be multilingual – that those who speak only one language are not exploiting their full potential? And in a world that is losing languages faster than ever – at the current...
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Training for endurance in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for endurance in sport and fitness

...research for years. However, more recent research has added anaerobic power and/or capacity as a fourth key determinant of endurance exercise. Research suggests that power tests (that is, vertical jump and 50 m sprint test) correlated relatively better with 5–10 km performance than VO2 max (Baumann et al., 2012; Blumkaitis et al., 2016). Middle-distance races (1500 m to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression

...researched across a range of psychiatric conditions in the 1950s and 1960s (Rucker et al., 2016). While these substances were found not to be useful for psychotic disorders, those 'suffering from so-called "neurotic" disorders, characterized by constrained, entrenched and often negative patterns of thought, feeling and behaviour, often reported new insights [and...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Sure, I know how to talk to people!
Money & Business

Sure, I know how to talk to people!

...research into rapport, much of which has been carried out in a policing context. As soon as two people are in a room together, they are communicating in some way, albeit perhaps non-verbally. Imagine the following scenario: you and your colleague, Jim, are in a meeting room at work together, the first two people to arrive for a meeting. You are busy trying to answer...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...Research Councils UK Energy Strategy Fellow and Professor of Sustainable Energy at Imperial College is interviewed by Roger Harrabin for 'Stories of Change'...[Jim Skea] Jim Skea has research interests in energy, climate change and technological innovation. He has been RCUK Energy Strategy Fellow since April 2012 and a Professor of Sustainable Energy at Imperial College...
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The gut microbiome: balancing the body
Science, Maths & Technology

The gut microbiome: balancing the body

...research is increasingly showing the importance of these microbiomes for the correct functioning of the human body and for maintaining health. In fact, disruption to these microbiomes can lead to a number of long-term health conditions, such as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, some cancers and some mental health disorders. The gut microbiome is the largest and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs