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Simplistic models for understanding Coronavirus: Helpful or harmful?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Simplistic models for understanding Coronavirus: Helpful or harmful?

...think it is doing. Footman 477 uses a bucket and a plastic bottle with a hole to explain how allowing a trickle of people to become infected and pass through the health service avoids a greater flow of people through the health service later. From a systems perspective, this demonstration is a simple system process that has two stages: The population (Bucket 1, which is a...
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What's up with Whatsapp - and should we weaken its security?
Digital & Computing

What's up with Whatsapp - and should we weaken its security?

...systems provide government with a backdoor to listen in. But how does Whatsapp keep users' secrets - and should we be telling them to stop?...[Whatsapp] A battle between national security and privacy is brewing. Governments and secret services are asking encrypted messaging services such as WhatsApp to allow them access to users’ data. Most recently, in the wake of the...
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What counts as professional learning?
Education & Development

What counts as professional learning?

...think and act? How do practitioners know about professional learning opportunities, and how can we facilitate them to lead their own professional learning interests? How can professional learning spaces be strengthened as site for connectivity and belonging, to strengthen their role in promoting wellbeing? [Professional learning - Current Experiences. Slide from the...
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Was British business always planning for Brexit?
Money & Business

Was British business always planning for Brexit?

...Systems, Govan] Is there gold at the end of the BAe rainbow? Always good to start with a confession: we are what Brexiteers call Remoaners. As Michael Bloomberg says, “it is really hard to understand why a country that was doing so well wanted to ruin it.” Anti-immigration sentiments, a feeling of being left behind by many voters, an uninspiring campaign by the Remain...
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Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education
Education & Development

Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education

...systemic racism in the classroom? Christina Collins reflects on her experiences as a teacher and what needs to change...Let me introduce you to a mentoring vignette. It is 2010. I am an eye-poppingly keen Newly Qualified Teacher. I have recently been observed by my mentor Brian with my favourite class. We smashed it, I love them and this meeting is going well. Until....
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Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...think most people regard as rather messy systems that went before? RH: OK, so there are two things that you might have thoughts on, one is the contraction of the VED incentives, so now there’s no incentive if you have a Porsche, there’s no incentive to buy a Prius in terms of VED. And the other one is the taxation, addition to tax renewables with a tax designed in...
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The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation

...system (ANS), is highly responsive to stress, and most of the communication is automatic and unconscious. The goal of the autonomic nervous system is to maintain homeostasis, and it does so by utilising its two subsystems – the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and the parasympathetic nervous system (PSNS). If a stress response is triggered, it sends signals to the...
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The machine that is still changing the world
Science, Maths & Technology

The machine that is still changing the world

...systems, entitled “The Machine that Changed the World”[i]. The book presented the findings of a thorough comparative study of the productivity of automotive manufacturers. The authors demonstrated the ways in which manufacturers such as Toyota had moved the paradigm of how cars should be made from the Ford-based mass production system to one of lean production. The...
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