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Why not ‘World Religions’?
History & The Arts

Why not ‘World Religions’?

...educated elites, especially those who wished to portray India as a unified, modern nation on the international stage. Even today, religion in India is presented in introductory textbooks as a single, albeit multifaceted, tradition, ignoring literally hundreds of millions of people’s beliefs and practices. Judaism – is not a good fit with the World Religions model. It...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...technology is increasingly being used to extract energy from food waste...Waste management and environmentalism in China: Strategy 3: Improving technology - Burning or incinerating MSW dramatically reduces the volume of waste to be dealt with and is an important way of dealing with the waste problem in China. However, a modern plant should not be designed just with mass...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Dolly The Sheep: What happened next?
Science, Maths & Technology

Dolly The Sheep: What happened next?

...technology as well as to pursue new concepts in stem cell research. The endgame was never meant to be armies of genetically identical livestock: Rather, researchers continue to refine the techniques and combine them with other methods to turbocharge traditional animal breeding methods as well as gain insights into aging and disease. Not the usual sperm + egg Dolly was a...
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Article 10 mins
Promoting equality through the Arts
History & The Arts

Promoting equality through the Arts

...technology companies from both India and China have opened UK bases in the city that have attracted workers from overseas. The diversity of participants, and the variety of ways in they made the Democratic Set their ‘home’, inspired us to think about the meaning of home in a fast-paced, globalised world. What does it mean to have, to create, to be, or to feel at home?...
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Article 20 mins
Pushing through the speed barrier: trailblazing women in motorsport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Pushing through the speed barrier: trailblazing women in motorsport

...technology in 2019. Depending on the type of racing, track and series, with improved support, training, and equality in opportunities, this gap can certainly close over time and the likes of Sells and Carrasco have already proved they can set the pace. Now is the time to jump on board as this unstoppable wave of talent and opportunity continues to build, promising a...
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Article 10 mins
Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Education & Development

Reparations for slavery in Barbados

...Technology transfer Debt cancellation The (brief) arguments For: Slavery created vast amounts of wealth for the colonisers, the planters and the white elite (see Williams, 1944) Continuing legacy of slavery (inequality of land distribution and wealth distribution) Compensation paid to slave owners Slavery is endemic in economic and political structures Against: Source of...
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What is Planetary Protection?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is Planetary Protection?

...technologies, the possibility of finding life remains. If found, life beyond Earth would be a very big claim with society-wide implications, so it is critical to be sure that the evidence is robust, reliable and irrefutable. That is, there must be confidence that the evidence found originates from the environment being explored and has not been taken there from Earth. We...
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How do empires work?
History & The Arts

How do empires work?

...technology. Its sheer density of industrial development meant Europe was now always one step ahead. In the First Anglo-Chinese War, the paddle steamer Nemesis blew Chinese junks out of the water, and Chinese matchlocks were no match for European flintlock guns. By the late nineteenth century, Europeans were introducing rifled guns (lined with ridges that increase...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr