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Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...community in planning decisions and improvements. What processes do we go through in making these decisions about different possible courses of action? Are they the same every time? Are they the same for everyone? Just as there are different types of decision, there are also different approaches to decision making that are relevant in different circumstances. Some...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...community. By the end of this week, you should be able to: recognise specific elements of lifelong learning understand adult professional learning in the primary school develop skills to encourage children to be lifelong learners...Session 8: Adults and lifelong learning in the primary school: 1 A headteacher talks about lifelong learning - For this final session,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Our sense of balance
Science, Maths & Technology

Our sense of balance

...communicated to the otolithic membrane (for the otoliths) and cupula (for the semicircular canals) respectively causing deflection of the hair cell bundles. In other words: this deflection is the sensory signal. Deflection of the hair cells results in an electrical signal in the nerve cells connecting to them. This information is relayed in a bundle of these nerves,...
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Article 10 mins
Hajj 2015: Balancing pilgrimage with consumerism
History & The Arts

Hajj 2015: Balancing pilgrimage with consumerism

...community. Most significant of all has been the inception of air travel, which enables Muslims from around the world to make the journey safely in a matter of hours rather than months. The Saudi Arabian regime has also developed facilities to support pilgrims – and to control them. Massive building projects, rapid transport services and even air-conditioned walkways...
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Article 5 mins
Charity begins at Homeland: The screen spies the CIA should love
Society, Politics & Law

Charity begins at Homeland: The screen spies the CIA should love

...community has been heavily criticised over the last few years, Hollywood appears remarkably willing to come to their aid with films and television series such as Homeland, Zero Dark Thirty and Argo – the latter two made with the CIA’s cooperation. Perhaps it’s just a matter of time until Supreme Court Justices and US intelligence officials cite Homeland instead of...
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Article 5 mins
How can authorities plan for an unexpected terrorist tactic?
Society, Politics & Law

How can authorities plan for an unexpected terrorist tactic?

...communications to official bodies were routed exclusively through the plane cockpits. No one in authority had realized that tech developments made ordinary passengers a useful source of information. Yet in the end, it was the passengers on United 93 who alone pieced together what was going on, by talking to their families and loved ones, and took the actions that saved...
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Article 5 mins
No Pause for Thought? Brexit, Bias and Political Manipulation
Health, Sports & Psychology

No Pause for Thought? Brexit, Bias and Political Manipulation

...communications. We start from the position that the UK appears woefully underprepared for the Brexit negotiations and a world outside the EU. There is a shortfall of civil servants to address the myriad of loose ends that need to be tied up during and after the Brexit negotiations. Industries are already relocating to Europe. Recruitment of skilled workers is becoming...
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Article 10 mins
Should we be worried about the US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we be worried about the US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement?

...community have added their voice too. The commitment to action on climate change shows no signs of stopping. Even if political leadership from the world’s largest economy is hard to come by, action on climate change looks set to continue at the grassroots. While the political process has been disappointingly slow and frustrating – with flip-flopping on
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Article 10 mins