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Can we overcome cyber-fatigue to secure ourselves online?
Digital & Computing

Can we overcome cyber-fatigue to secure ourselves online?

...public resource and a public trust whose security and stability are not to be subverted to the service of private special interests. As customers and users, when evaluating new technologies, systems, products and services, we must look beyond the attractive benefits, conveniences or cost savings they might offer. We must assess their potential risks, vulnerabilities,...
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Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...public lecture in Oxford in the early part, I think from memory it was January of 2006. So we’d been working for three or four months and I then stood up and shared with academic communities in the world, ‘This is where we’re going.’ Lots of working papers if you look at the acknowledgements in the front of the Stern Review, tremendous interaction with – RH: But...
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Panic buying and how to stop it
Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic buying and how to stop it

...health workers and the elderly and vulnerable can shop. However, this might also amplify the perception of scarcity. The perception that a norm has been violated is based on subjective judgement. Accurately assessing whether the availability of food and other items is threatened is difficult to do without more information. Images shared by trustworthy friends on social...
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Leaving no stone unturned in the pursuit of female athletic performance
Health, Sports & Psychology

Leaving no stone unturned in the pursuit of female athletic performance

...ensure that we record the athlete’s menstruation. Having a period is a vital sign of health and in athletes it is a great indication that they are getting their fuelling right. If a female athlete doesn’t balance her training load with her nutritional intake then, over time, her body will shut down her menstrual cycle: the body will prioritise other physiological systems over and above getting pregnant (which is what the ......
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Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...public expenditure on energy research and if you correlate it with oil prices, miraculously the correlation is almost one-to-one. RH: How surprising! JS: Well, I don’t think the link is absolutely direct, but you know given that prices have fallen again, you see the sense… there’s more fossil fuels coming onto energy markets with the shale...
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Forth Road Bridge
History & The Arts

Forth Road Bridge

...public transport alternatives and reducing the number of single occupancy cars and HGVs. You may wish to share these thoughts with fellow learners by posting your ideas in the Comments section below. Click to view the video extract (8 minutes). NEIL OLIVER Edinburgh reaches over the Firth of Forth with two great bridges. While the famously robust Victorian rail bridge is...
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Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author
History & The Arts

Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author

...health Susannah Cullen died in 1796 (Lovejoy, 2006). Her death was followed by Equiano who died in London in March 1797 and their eldest daughter Anna Maria after she contracted measles age four years in July 1797 (Downs, 2020). [Sculpture of Olaudah Equiano, the Queen's House, Greenwich]Sculpture of Olaudah Equiano (Photo by ©JRennocks)Show description The commemorative...
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Lying and politics: a brief primer
Society, Politics & Law

Lying and politics: a brief primer

...public at a meeting or on the radio television or whatever it is. So it's not quite the same thing as lying specifically in the House of Commons. So that I would that's where I would draw a distinction. And of course it can sometimes become a grey area because you can say something what you mean but which perhaps you're not able to fulfil. Now this is where the the...
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