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What can emoji teach us about human civilization?
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What can emoji teach us about human civilization?

...health issues[2] to helping people speak out about child abuse.[3] In education contexts, their visual appeal and intuitiveness as a communication system has made them especially useful with learning for younger, or more vulnerable, children.[4] For adults also they can serve an educational purpose. The fact that they’ve evolved from similar basic practices as all other...
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Article 15 mins
How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri
Health, Sports & Psychology

How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri

...health and well-being” with “universal appeal”. The discipline was popularised in Britain through the hard work and dedication of a diverse group of unusual individuals. There were competing ideas of yoga, different forms of practice, and many different points at which yoga entered British culture, as my book Yoga in Britain explores. But there are two women whose...
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Article 10 mins
Digital carbon footprints and remote working
Nature & Environment

Digital carbon footprints and remote working

...health, safety and growth opportunities are the employer’s responsibility, no matter where their staff are located. We now find ourselves at another juxtaposition of two forces – climate change, NetZero strategies, and the global energy crisis. The ramifications of these are still unfolding, however there is an important realisation that is yet to become widespread...
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Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online

...public about potential computer security risks. This one, released in March 2014, lists six vulnerabilities in this family of Siemens PLCs, which could allow attackers to interrupt or stop their operations. It also highlights that this family of PLCs are used in a range of critical sectors. This PLC isn't just vulnerable, it is also quite likely to be working in an...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis

...Health and our Changing Climate: Impacts, Implications, and Guidance. Washington D.C.: American Psychological Association and ecoAmerica. Gen Dread (2023) ‘Post-traumatic growth after touching death: A conversation with climate activist Charlie Hertzog Young’, Gen dread, 25 May. Available at: Post-traumatic growth after touching death - Gen Dread (substack.com)...
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Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...public key cryptography, sidesteps the key distribution problem because each user creates their own keys: the private key, which they keep safe and never distribute the public key, which can be sent to anyone with whom they want to exchange encrypted information. Unlike with symmetric encryption, the two keys behave differently: the public key is the only key that can...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introduction to operations management
Money & Business

Introduction to operations management

...public, reassurance of the public, and preventing and detecting crime. So the output is that we do those things, that we protect the public, the public feel reassured by what their police force is doing, and that we prevent and detect crime. So, everything we do is designed to do one of those things. They expect us to respond to their phone call. So, when they ring us, we...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST) Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST)

...public may not be aware of the number of incidents because almost three-quarters (72%), on average, of the insider incidents are handled internally without legal action or the involvement of law enforcement’ (CERT Insider Threat Center, 2010). The estimate of 1,000 attacks per hour is based on the BIS Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2014. We took the number of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs