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Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...Project’. While the impacts of the climate crisis have been experienced across the Global South for many decades, the setting of a global climate agenda tends not to reflect these experiences and remains dominated by powerful countries in the Global North. The first part of the video highlights the work of the CVF, which first met in 2009, just ahead of COP 15, and The...
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Article 5 hrs
Psychological research, obedience and ethics
Society, Politics & Law

Psychological research, obedience and ethics

...project...Psychological research, obedience and ethics: Task: Is it ethical? - On the following pages you will find a brief description of a psychological research study. Your task is to imagine you are on a research ethics panel that has been asked to consider the research being proposed. In each case, read the description and decide whether you think the study described...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...project, called Zero to Eight, illustrates just how pervasive technology is becoming for younger children. The project report identified a significant increase over the previous five years of children under nine years old using the internet (Holloway et al., 2013). In particular it noted a growing trend for very young children (pre-schoolers) to use tablets and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...management kit that includes the anaesthetic lidocaine, an antiseptic applicator, a hypodermic needle, a syringe and non-latex gloves. Not all these products are approved for sale in all regions. There’s nothing experimental about putting an RFID chip in your hand, says Hannes Sjöblad. Alongside his role at BioNyfiken, he is also Chief Disruption Officer at Epicenter,...
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Article 10 mins
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...managing your money online or over the phone, or using an ATM – the machines involved are connected via a network to a central computer, which has records of your account in an electronic filing system known as a database. Financial services have undergone huge changes in recent years as a result of developments in the digital technologies driving them. The examples...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Energy resources: solar energy
Nature & Environment

Energy resources: solar energy

...managed to renew carbon consumed by using vegetable matter as an energy source, the natural balance of the carbon cycle can be sustained. About 6% of the total biomass that grows annually - containing about 7.5 × 1012 kg of carbon content - would meet all humanity's current demands for energy. However, such a perspective has nightmarish overtones because its production...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Personality: A user guide
Health, Sports & Psychology

Personality: A user guide

...you might want to challenge yourself to experience the rewards of greater spontaneity and exchange; if you are an extreme extravert, you might want to teach yourself to undertake a long and lonely project that will ultimately be very rewarding. As human beings, we have the unique ability to look in at our personality from the outside and decide what we want to do with it....
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Article 10 mins
James Honeyborne - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Honeyborne - Earth in Vision

...Project Wildscreen, 20th – 23rd October 2014 My name is James Honeybourne, I am an Executive Producer at the BBC Natural History Unit. Wildlife television: What got you started? I have always had a passion for wildlife and I was very lucky, when I was 18 I went to Africa to see my uncle, who was living there and he introduced me to a film crew and I just thought it was...
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Video 10 mins