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How to manage the digital-related stress of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to manage the digital-related stress of technology

...2: Set yourself clear smartphone social usage boundaries [couple eating dinner] Many of us use our phones when we’re with our friends and family, watching television, and eating; dividing our attention between our phones and our real life experiences. However, research has shown that being more mindful and generally being more present is good for our wellbeing. So set...
Studying Darwin
Nature & Environment

Studying Darwin

...2 Animals at the extremes - The desert environment Animal life has adapted to survive in the most unlikely and inhospitable habitats. This course looks at the surprisingly diverse desert climates throughout the world and mammals, birds, lizards and amphibians that survive there. It splits these animals into three groups according to their strategy for survival: evaders,...
Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
How we can all tackle our digital carbon footprints
Nature & Environment

How we can all tackle our digital carbon footprints

...2: Cross-cutting Our digital activities influence and impact our emissions across other categories, including emissions associated with housing and travel. Reason 3: Empowering As mentioned in the remote working article (linked below), some of the actions we can take to reduce our personal digital carbon footprints are small, yet impactful. These easier-to-implement...
Engaging with our environment: what are the benefits?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Engaging with our environment: what are the benefits?

...or not, the website will provide inspiration for engaging with your environment. 2. If you prefer to engage with nature on your own, Dr Yoseph Araya, Senior Lecturer in Ecology and Environmental Sciences, recommends an approach that also helps you actively learn using citizen science platforms such as iSpot (www.ispotnature.org). iSpot keeps a store of photographic records of animals and plants by location and even helps......
Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Education & Development

Reparations for slavery in Barbados

...2, 233-255. Hoyos, F.A. (1978) Barbados, A History from Amerindians to Independence, Macmillan Publishers, Oxford. Morgan, J. (2004) Laboring Women: Reproduction And Gender In New World Slavery, University Of Pennsylvania Press. Steckel, R.H. (1979) ‘Slave Mortality: Analysis of Evidence from Plantation Records’, Social Science History, vol. 3, no. 3/4, pp. 86-114....
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...2 Experiencing complexity Next, presented with a situation you experience as complex, you will be offered powerful systems-thinking tools for devising systems of interest that will support you in making sense of the situation. Part 3 Understanding systems approaches to managing complexity You will then be invited to consider your own role in becoming a systems...
Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?

...2 diabetes, but the amputation site had stubbornly refused to heal. An infection had eaten away flesh and left tendon and bone exposed, streaks of off-white against the angry, red, weeping wound. Several of his other toes had developed gangrene, turning black and slowly dropping off. If unchecked, diabetes leads to damaged nerve endings, meaning small injuries can go...
Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...2, pp. 86–100. Kelley, R. (1997) 'Nap time: historicizing the afro', Fashion Theory, 1, pp. 339–52. King, V. and Niabaly, D. (2013) 'The politics of Black women's hair', Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato, 13. Opie, T.R. and Phillips, K.W. (2015) 'Hair penalties: the negative influence of Afrocentric hair on ratings of Black...