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An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...become a vital part of everyday life. It is almost inconceivable that you could spend a day without at least one event being influenced by a computer. Perhaps the word ‘computer’ automatically conjures up the image of a personal computer sitting on a desk, but in fact it is the computers you cannot see that influence your life the most. Typical examples of common...
Bill Hare - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill Hare - Stories of Change

...become fair within the range of scientific literature. RH: And what’s your assessment so far? BH: Well what we see is that most of the major emitters, developed and developing, are very far away from doing their fair share, whether you’re the United States or China, whether you’re the European Union or India, more can be done by all of those big emitters to close...
Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...become one of the world’s best known and respected cameramen. He specialises in natural history, expeditions and science documentaries in some of the wildest and most remote places on our planet, particularly the polar zones working for the BBC, Discovery, National Geographic and many others, filming for series like The Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Human Planet, Frozen...
Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...become painfully aware that something appalling has happened,” he recalls. “You go through the description, they offer commiserations and a booklet, and then they leave. And that’s it. Suddenly you are staring into the most appalling abyss you can ever imagine.” The next time Mallen heard his son play the piano, the music filled Holy Trinity Parish Church, a mile...
Understanding different research perspectives
Money & Business

Understanding different research perspectives

...become an ‘insider-researcher’. For example, if you want to conduct your research project with HR managers and you are a HR manager yourself you will have a common language and a common understanding of the issues associated with doing the same job. While, on one hand, the insider perspective allows special sensitivity, empathy and understanding of the matters, which...
Evolution through natural selection
Nature & Environment

Evolution through natural selection

...become an Anglican clergyman. Soon after the voyage of the Beagle (1831-1836), during which he was gentleman companion to Captain FitzRoy, Darwin became convinced that biological evolution had occurred and saw how it could have been brought about by natural selection. Despite having gathered massive amounts of supporting evidence, Darwin refrained from publishing his...
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Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...become recognised as a distinct stage of life, and puberty was recognised as a significant ‘cause of insanity’. Maxime Durand-Fardel (1889), another doctor who was a pioneer in psychiatry, highlighted the existence of suicide in children. 1919–1930: educationists such as sisters Rachel and Margaret McMillan (1919) and Susan Isaacs (1929), who were pioneers in...
Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...becomes more intensive which means those areas that are dry today already will become dryer, and therefore the risk of drought and water scarcity will increase; whereas on the other side, where you are in zones of already abundant precipitation, we will experience more rainfall and a higher risk of flooding. So that's the first resource to which humankind and ecosystems...