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Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...systems: the water system; where Consolidated Edison was getting its oil and things for the power system; on and on. And the impression that it left me with was that the world was a more physical place than I’d realised. I grew up in a suburb, like most Americans, and suburbs are, kind of, devices for hiding the operations of the planet, so I didn’t really have a...
Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction
Education & Development

Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction

...System. This can include a pre-arranged check in with a colleague before and after the interview, where the colleague has a process to follow if you do not check in with them as planned. Remote interviews can offer more convenience, but they are reliant on the chosen technology (internet connection, phone signal, devices) working well for the duration of the interview....
Diversity and inclusion in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace

...systemic changes to the way we operate, and we need to explain why we’re making those changes and why it’s good for everyone. And so if we’re making a tweak to a process, we need to bring people on board with why we’re making the tweak, test it, make sure that it works within our organisation, then roll it out, and we re-affirming why we’re doing it, and then be...
Physical and mental health for young children
Education & Development

Physical and mental health for young children

...systems. Bronfenbrenner developed his theory to explain how you must look at the child and their immediate and wider environment, to identify the factors that affect their development. However, the different influences can’t be neatly separated out because the interaction between the different systems influence development and health. [This is a diagram with a set of...
Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...system that was devised by a German physician in 1796. Homeopathy was based on two ideas: firstly, that a substance that causes certain symptoms can also be used to cure those same symptoms, in other words ‘like cures like’, and secondly, that diluting a substance to minuscule levels increases its effectiveness. In the late eighteenth century, mainstream medical...
Some merits of Manchester
History & The Arts

Some merits of Manchester

...system of parks, public gardens, and playgrounds, unusual in their number and variety, had a sympathetic allure in the gray, cool light, even to the spectator passing in a hurried hansom. They have not the unity of the Boston or Chicago parkways, and I will own that I had not come to Manchester for them. What interested me more were the miles and miles of
Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing

...Systemic and family psychotherapy Arts and play therapies Humanistic and integrative psychotherapies All of these talking therapies are designed to help people to overcome stress, emotional and relationship problems or troublesome habits. Different therapies are used for different types of problems. Depending on the nature of the issues therapy can also take place with...
Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...systems in the World. But perhaps her best memorial is in her writings. In 1843 Ada was wondering if a machine could be intelligent: “ It is desirable to guard against the possibility of exaggerated ideas that might arise as to the powers of the Analytical Engine. In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be...