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Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...Health Service (England and Scotland), Nissan Motoring Manufacturing UK, O2 Germany, Renault and Telefonica. The malware was of a type known as ransomware, which locks the data files of an infected computer using encryption and demands a ransom payment for unlocking them. In the UK, the worst-affected organisation was the National Health Service (NHS): around 50 health...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
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Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...health, education, mining, and gas and electricity. The global value of the agricultural drones dedicated to spraying was estimated at 1.8 billion USD in 2020 and is expected to reach 3.2 million USD by 2031 (Fact.MR, 2021). In this course, you will focus on how to develop business opportunities for the use of drones in different contexts. The examples from the ICAERUS...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Retirement planning made easy
Money & Business

Retirement planning made easy

...mental health in later life. Making the distinction can help if you need to make savings as you usually have more options to cut costs on non-essential spending. Your spending pattern will change in retirement Some spending items are likely to change in retirement – perhaps your mortgage will be paid off by the time you retire? Some travel costs may go down if you have...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation
History & The Arts

Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation

...mentally impaired by the gas, but overstimulated beyond the reach of words themselves: as Davy himself put it, ‘I have sometimes experienced from nitrous oxide, sensations similar to no others, and they have consequently been indescribable’. James Thompson, one of the volunteers, captured the magnitude of the task precisely: ‘We must either invent new terms to...
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Article 5 mins
How I wrote Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How I wrote Frankenstein

...mental vision, —I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion. Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the...
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Article 5 mins
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...health, mental well-being and gender equality. Finally, the central pillar of degrowth scholarship: Economic democracy. Democratise workplaces. Democratise public services. Democratise the media. We know empirically that when people have democratic control over production, they choose to use resources more wisely, they focus on what is required for human welfare, and they...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...health and treatment of diseases. One of the most important tools for drug discovery is molecular modelling. Before high-speed computers became commonplace, medicinal chemists could only build physical models of possible drugs. However, the development of both hardware and software has meant that the medicinal chemist can: create visual images of a drug and manipulate...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
The global pursuit of equitable football coaching legacies from Africa and The Caribbean to the UK
Health, Sports & Psychology

The global pursuit of equitable football coaching legacies from Africa and The Caribbean to the UK

...health-sports-psychology/sport-fitness/qatar-2022-must-impart-positive-coaching-legacy-africa-and-the-caribbean-member-associations Fadoju, O (2020) Black lives matter in sport too what is the racially minoritised experience of sport in the UK. Available at:
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Article 10 mins