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Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...world, depending on the cloud cover and surface characteristics. The planetary albedo is the combined figure for the Earth as a whole: on average, it has a measured value of 31% (31 units). The remainder (69 units) is absorbed by the atmosphere and materials at the Earth's surface (the oceans, soils, vegetation and so on). SAQ 2 What is the rate per unit area at which...
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Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
The power of infographics in research dissemination
Education & Development

The power of infographics in research dissemination

...World Wide Web (WorldWideWebSize, 2017). This plethora of information ranges from commercially generated websites and adverts intended to sell us things (or persuade us to believe things) through to information that may be relevant, valuable and deeply interesting to the researcher but which may be obscured by more attention-grabbing web pages. Tim Wu’s The Attention...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Digital thinking tools for better decision making Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...director of the US Office of Scientific Research and Development during the Second World War; Figure 3), mused that: Then, on beyond the strict logic of the mathematician, lies the application of logic in everyday affairs. We may some day click off arguments on a machine with the same assurance that we now enter sales on a cash register. (Bush, 1945, p. 5) Today, there is a wide variety of digital tools for mapping ......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Modern slavery
Society, Politics & Law

Modern slavery

...world and affects millions of people worldwide. Modern slavery takes various forms, e.g. trafficking in human beings (THB), forced labour and bonded labour. THB is a complex issue, which poses a challenge to legal regulation, particularly in a human rights context. It is an excellent and timely example of modern slavery, which is likely to challenge existing...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America

...heritage, described the mainly Presbyterian Irish arrivals as ‘Wilde Irish’ and criticised them for their propensity for drunkenness, blasphemy, and violence (Dwyer-Ryan, 2013). Pennsylvania, dominated by a more tolerant Quaker elite, proved to be more welcoming. According to Kevin Kenny, over 100,000 people of Ulster origin lived in this recently established state in...
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Article 5 mins
Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support
Health, Sports & Psychology

Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support

...heritage, or from the wider community in or around West Birmingham who are recovering from mental ill health or are at risk of developing mental ill health. https://www.sacmhf.co.uk/ North East Sharing Voices Bradford Sharing Voices Bradford (SVB) aims to reduce mental health and related inequalities through community development in partnership with Black Minority Ethnic...
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Video 10 mins
The Push - Shove Effect: what Good Friday Agreement has to do with it
Society, Politics & Law

The Push - Shove Effect: what Good Friday Agreement has to do with it

...world headlines. Nixon had Irish Quaker roots but he wasn’t about to become entangled in the root causes of the growing violence in his part-ancestral homeland. At one point, his Secretary of State, William Rogers, went so far as to describe as “outrageous” a suggestion by Senator Edward Kennedy that the U.S. could act as a mediator in Northern Ireland. Had Kennedy...
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Brady’s Rogue Reagent?
Science, Maths & Technology

Brady’s Rogue Reagent?

...world over now causing such a fuss? Well, problems may arise due to the mishandling, inappropriate storage and poor documentation and management for the requirement that DNPH is kept wet at all times. The issue of concern for DNPH is that the molecule has an inherent level of structural instability that puts it in the explosives risk category, indeed its storage is...
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