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So, you want to work in the video gaming industry
Science, Maths & Technology

So, you want to work in the video gaming industry

...thing would be: make games, learn what you like, and focus on that. Has your industry changed much in the last 5/10 years and if so, how? Transcript. The games industry is always evolving. What do you see as the future of your industry? Transcript. I think hopefully we’ll see the birth of more indie studios, smaller teams making interesting things, not just Triple-As....
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Rio+20 - United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
Nature & Environment

Rio+20 - United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development

...thinking and ecology in regard to how design may redefine the nature of production and consumption. From Awareness to Action Professor Godfrey Boyle evaluates the change in attitudes towards the issue of the environment over the last 40 years. Humanity’s impact on the planet Dr Graham Harvey discusses the negative impact humans have on the planet. Global Sweden – no...
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Could President Trump do what Candidate Trump promises in the struggle against Islamic State?
Society, Politics & Law

Could President Trump do what Candidate Trump promises in the struggle against Islamic State?

...think it can be helpful to examine in a nonpartisan way the legal aspects of Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric on the use of force against the Islamic State, or ISIS. [A photograph of 2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump in a residential backyard near Jordan Creek Parkway and Cody Drive in West Des Moines, Iowa, with lights and security cameras.] A Trump For...
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Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It
History & The Arts

Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It

...thinks that ‘more than most of Shakespeare As You Like It has slipped over our horizon; it has too much to say about what was once intimately interesting and now is not’ (Kermode, 2001, p. 82). James Shapiro notes that none of Shakespeare’s contemporaries is known to have praised the play and speculates that this may have been because ‘it was not only of its time...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
The life of Mama Elouise Edwards
History & The Arts

The life of Mama Elouise Edwards

...system of communal saving based on trust. A group would join together to pool their regular savings. The money was kept by a trusted “banker” and the members took it in turn to have access to the lump sum. This enabled many families to put together the down payment on a house. As Elouise’s husband, Beresford described it: I used to throw what is called ‘pardner’...
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Explainer: how do you read an election poll?
Society, Politics & Law

Explainer: how do you read an election poll?

...think. If you polled 2,000 people instead of 1,000, for instance, then (other things being equal) the margin of error would go down only from about 3% to about 2%. A mug’s game? Much more of a problem is that even a perfect set of poll results wouldn’t tell you the election result. To this extent it stops being like the soup. If you did eat the whole panful, you...
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Using digital tools to save languages
Languages

Using digital tools to save languages

...systems, and their work allows us today to discover many fascinating stories from those cultures. While it is interesting and advantageous to know more than one language, our native language is particularly important, as it is the tool in which we most easily encode and decode our emotions, our stories, and our secrets. If we don’t start documenting languages...
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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

...think, you could try setting up an auto-reply explaining when you will be checking your emails. This is becoming an increasingly common practice that people are using to manage their wellbeing. 4: Audit and curate your social media feed [social media icons] Next time you are on social media, look at the different posts on your feed and be honest with yourself about how...
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