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Climate change and alternative living: issues of adaptation and sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change and alternative living: issues of adaptation and sustainability

...technological advancements are needed for advancing civilisation. At the same time, this is causing a crisis in natural resources due to misuse and excessive use, e.g., deforestation for economic benefits. Climate change affords the opportunity to explore an alternative living option. One such option is a return to indigenous habitation. Indigenous refers to the natural...
Creativity and artificial intelligence
Languages

Creativity and artificial intelligence

...technological challenges involved in the development of such capabilities are two issues related much more to the human side of the equation than the machine side. That’s to say, they’re better addressed by the humanities than the sciences. The first of these, which is the focus of the video above, is what exactly we mean by creativity, and how our definition...
Business Bursts: Failure
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Failure

...technologically driven, to develop. At the moment we don’t seem to be seeing that. James Fleck There are a number of factors that can lead to business failure. The most straightforward I guess is simple lack of cashflow, that the firm doesn’t have enough money to pay ongoing bills or wages, and we've seen quite a lot of that with the credit crunch, where it’s been...
Multiple cause diagrams
Science, Maths & Technology

Multiple cause diagrams

...technology and food supply in farming Diagram guidelines Purpose The purpose of this type of diagram is to consider events, and states of things (i.e. states of things like low morale in the workforce, or poisoned water in the pond), and to explore the causal connections between them – for example, why a given event happened or why a certain class of events or states...
The hidden world of everyday coding
Digital & Computing

The hidden world of everyday coding

...technology more accessible for everyone Voice assistants, like Siri or Alexa, might feel like magic but behind the scenes they rely on AI coding. They are programmed to understand speech patterns and accents, and inclusive design helps them respond to people of different ages and abilities. Spot the code in your day Now that you’ve seen some examples, why not try...
A Buen Puerto: Fast Forward in Spanish
Languages

A Buen Puerto: Fast Forward in Spanish

...technology, trade and employment and the environment. The course includes face-to-face or teleconference tutorials. This material is taken from The Open University course L314 A buen puerto: advanced Spanish... Introduction Introduction to the series of programmes Radio Programme 1: Astronomy in Colombia A radio-style programme about astronomy from Cali in Colombia...
The 'what now Wednesday' after the Super Tuesday before
Society, Politics & Law

The 'what now Wednesday' after the Super Tuesday before

...Technology In 2015, political pundits universally agreed that Donald Trump could not win the Republican nomination. Following Super Tuesday’s results, it appears that everything we know about presidential nominating contests is wrong – Trump appears on the verge of becoming the Republican nominee. Trump is not the unifying figure his party needs. While the polls were...
Beaghmore Stone Circle
OpenLearn Ireland

Beaghmore Stone Circle

...technology, the stone axe. And this is an example, a very good example, of a porcelanite axe which is probably from either the Tievebulliagh factory on the Antrim Coast or the Brockley factory on Rathlin Island. PRESENTER: Clearly, a major technical innovation at that time. CLAIRE FOLEY: Oh clearly, I mean you could actually compare it to the invention of the tractor in...