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Planetary Protection of Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

Planetary Protection of Mars

...future robotic missions) may be led by non-governmental organisations. These missions may also choose to land close to sites where water is available for life support or fuel. This all presents a further challenge for Planetary Protection, with a need to maintain Mars as an unspoilt and uncontaminated environment and ensure the health of those humans who visit the planet....
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Embodied Intersectionality and British South Asian Muslim Women
Society, Politics & Law

Embodied Intersectionality and British South Asian Muslim Women

...health advice to wear a mask to limit the spread of Coronavirus becomes a matter for political debate, with politicians and public alike slow to accept the advice that face coverings are a necessary part of the prevention strategy (Ahmad, 2020; Mueller, 2020). Given the vilification of the niqab as symbolic of oppression and subjugation, not only in the UK but across...
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Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?

...health, infrastructure, public transport, and many other sadly neglected domestic priorities. Eisenhower’s military/industrial complex has not gone away The extreme power of the military/industrial complex which President Eisenhower warned of so eloquently in 1961, now far greater than he could have imagined then, has in the meantime ensured that congressmen who...
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Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare
History & The Arts

Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare

...HEALTH from the direct dictation of the Deity; yet in England nearly forty years ago Orton had a huge army of devotees and incorrigible adherents, many of whom remained stubbornly unconvinced after their fat god had been proven an impostor and jailed as a perjurer, and today Mrs. Eddy's following is not only immense, but is daily augmenting in numbers and enthusiasm....
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Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...health, demographic change and wellbeing food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy secure, clean and efficient energy smart, green and integrated transport climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials Europe in a changing world – inclusive, innovative and reflective societies...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
The ethics of cultural heritage
History & The Arts

The ethics of cultural heritage

...wellbeing of their own citizens than those of other nations. Given this, a state may be morally permitted to spend its funds meeting the needs of its own people, even when there are needier people elsewhere. However, even accepting this, the French state is still faced with an ethical dilemma. France, like any other nation, has humanitarian problems within its own...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...health, particularly to the wellbeing of children, and is a national problem uniting citizens across the land – environmental problems are increasingly scrutinised by watchful Chinese ‘netizens’ (Grano, 2016). Demanding more transparency from government on environmental issues is not perceived as a direct threat by the leadership, and is largely, although not...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...health issues. That’s definitely going to be the future.” [Sketch of a cyborg] The concept of enhancement is what distinguishes cyborgism from other medical implantation, or from the ordinary fact of having to wear corrective glasses. This is not about therapeutics or repair, but about augmenting human senses beyond the norm. Despite the distinct gap between cyborg...
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