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Sharpening Your Critical Thinking
History & The Arts

Sharpening Your Critical Thinking

...research, we’ll decide that the premise is true; or perhaps we won’t. It isn’t obvious whether Your Argument passes the first test. In contrast, My Argument does pass the first test. At time of writing, Williams has won the most Grand Slam singles titles since tennis professionalised. But does it pass the second test? Well, you might reasonably wonder why I am...
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How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?
Nature & Environment

How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?

...research. One trend that isn’t debated is the rate of growth in digital technologies. This has been growing exponentially since the commercialisation of the transistor, and continues to, despite global events. Digital technologies are responsible for carbon emissions from their creation, through to their use and disposal, and their sustained exponential growth will...
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An expert’s take on AI
Digital & Computing

An expert’s take on AI

...research and computing power are being put into making better AI systems, but there's a sort of ‘artificiality’ at the moment to both the text that is generated by AI, and the sound that AI can generate or the images it produces. So, if you read AI-generated text, it's very fluent, it's usually grammatically correct, but it's boring! It doesn't take strong opinions...
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Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support
Health, Sports & Psychology

Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support

...research had investigated the intersections of these two critical aspects of disadvantage. So, two of our Black tutors interviewed a sample of Black students studying one of the Access modules. As a result, we elicited a rich seam of (often unheard) Black student voices. Following analysis, and to preserve anonymity, we merged the findings into a series of personas which...
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Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change

...Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and School of Public Policy, University College London He is an economist, writer and consultant on climate change policy and strategy. From 2004-10 he was special adviser to Gordon Brown, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister, with responsibility for environment, energy and...
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Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...researching global harms and global perpetrators identify the central features and contributions of a Green Criminology...Criminology beyond crime: Within and beyond criminology - In 1983, the Australian criminologist Richard Harding asked ‘what do criminology and criminologists do to decrease the chances of the extinction of mankind and the destruction of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Introduction to adolescent mental health Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to adolescent mental health

...Research indicates that throughout the world, young people’s mental health and wellbeing is at risk. Indeed, media headlines warn of a global mental health crisis. In 2020, the Children’s Society reported that one in six children aged between 5 and 16 years of age globally suffer from a mental health problem. 50% of all mental health problems begin by the age of 14...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Animals at the extremes: the desert environment
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: the desert environment

...researchers suggest that Rüppell's foxes are particularly efficient at reducing either cutaneous or respiratory water loss. Mean field water flux (FWF) per day in the six foxes was 123 ml day−1 with 26.1 ml water day−1 provided from catabolism. Comparison of mass-adjusted values for water flux in Rüppell's foxes with values obtained for swift foxes living in grass...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs