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Foreign interference?
Digital & Computing

Foreign interference?

...world’s second-largest maker of mobile phones and a major supplier of telecommunications products to companies such as BT. As part of its expansion in the UK, Huawei is obliged to work with government agencies and telecom operators to prove the security of its hardware and software at a specialised facility near Banbury in Oxfordshire. Are Huawei and ZTE spying on us?...
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Goddess Preconceptions: Beyond Fertility, Sexuality and Motherhood
History & The Arts

Goddess Preconceptions: Beyond Fertility, Sexuality and Motherhood

...world as much as its creator. Lakshmi may look more beautiful than Durga, but people approach her for help with finances more than fertility. Her beauty has more to do with purity than sexuality. But there is even more to her than this. Although she is a Goddess of wealth and prosperity, she has four hands to point to dharma, kama, artha and moksha. If you are unfamiliar...
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Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...worlds, unsurprisingly we get better predictive power. RH: A group of scientists who call themselves the Lukewarmers say that actually when you base your predictions on observations rather than on the very complicated global circulation computer models, that actually it looks like warming will be less than we thought when we double CO2, we might get away with perhaps...
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Jack Perks - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Jack Perks - Earth in Vision

...world Well it’s kind of stereotypical to say it but I’ve done it since I can remember, since I was a child catching sticklebacks and tadpoles in a jam jar, that kind of Huckleberry Finn sort of thing. And then a few years later cameras came into it, so photography, stills photographer and then that spiralled out of control and I got into the filmmaking side of it and...
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The impact of technology on children's physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of technology on children's physical activity

...World Health Organization (WHO, 2016) reported that 81 per cent of adolescents aged 11–17 years were insufficiently physically active in 2010. Health professionals and organisations are implementing many interventions aimed at increasing levels of physical activity to address childhood obesity and general health. [Described image] Figure 1 Family interacting with...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...world. Therefore, it does not say anything one way or another about the creation of the world. [Fish] The Arguments: Dr Anne Campbell [Anne Campbell] Dr Anne Campbell is a Reader in the Psychology Department, University of Durham. Dr Campbell is an evolutionary psychologist who thinks that you can't have a full understanding of the human mind without looking at how the...
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Supporting children’s learning in primary education today
Education & Development

Supporting children’s learning in primary education today

...world, politicians, policy makers, academics, educationalists, parents and children alike all grapple with this question in different ways and for different reasons. The way you think about education is influenced by your own values and beliefs, the values and beliefs of others, political ideologies, socio-economic climate, religion, culture, acquisition of knowledge or...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...world a better place means picking up litter and not killing whales.” Where does children’s rights come in there? This is called an inaugural lecture and I suppose the idea came from a youngish professor inaugurating or instituting a program of work over the next 20 years or so. Well, I haven’t got that long time ahead of me, so instead I hope that the Institute...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs