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Challenge: Make paper and ink
Science, Maths & Technology

Challenge: Make paper and ink

...Forest by Lynn Cherry, pub 2000 Voyager Books; ISBN: 0152026142 El Gran Capoquero: UN Cuento De LA Selva Amazonica by Lynn Cherry, translated by Alma Ada, 1994 Harcourt; ISBN: 0152323201 This page was updated in April 2017 to remove some dead links, include the video tutorials, and to redraft the text to make better sense outside of the context of the original programmes....
Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...communities or whole societies may be subjected to. These encompass consideration of the activities of not just individuals, but also of local and national states and corporations, political regimes and ideologies, and social institutions (including criminal justice systems). Hillyard and Tombs have critiqued aspects of ‘mainstream’ criminological enquiry for failing...
Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...community level, Mark was chair of the Board of Westmill Wind Farm Co-operative from 2006 to 2015, which generates more than enough electricity to supply the demand of all the co-op’s 2500 members. Mark and Alice also recognise that there are environmental issues that can be tackled only at government levels, such as local and regional planning and national energy, and...
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...communicates social and cultural messages, a practice that has been present in tangible form since ancient times, a symbol ideologically fundamental to the Christian, and particularly the Catholic, vision of womanhood and piety, and a vehicle for resistance in Islamic societies, and is currently the center of scholarly debate on gender and women in the Islamic East. In...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...communication skills are bad. Their understanding of relations in the world are bad. If you can think about the bumps they’ve got to get over in terms of the typical pathway to creating experiences of learning, he’s helped solve them. He’s done two amazing things. He, one, makes exoskeletons for these babies, so they can sit stably. That means they can hold … they...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...communicated, and contested, by the language and imagery used to refer to and represent other animals...Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?: 2 Nonhuman victims of harm - The experience of being physically and/or psychologically harmed is unavoidable for all animals, whether human or nonhuman, but for criminologists, an increasing area of concern is avoidable harm...
Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...communication technology (ICT) industry consumes massive amounts of power. However, in the absence of the large smoking chimneys that traditional industries have, this fact gets easily overlooked. The UK’s Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (2008) predicts that ICT will be responsible for 3% of global emissions by 2020. Just keeping the data available that...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?

...Community Medicine, surveying the torn flesh on Bhuvan’s neck. “I’ve seen far more severe bites.” That morning, Narayana spends hours calling suppliers for two doses of the crucial treatment: rabies immunoglobulin, a concentrated solution of rabies antibodies. Two vials arrive just after noon. Bhuvan is placed on a clinic bed, where an attendant holds him down as...