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Using data visualisation to track climate change
Nature & Environment

Using data visualisation to track climate change

...management.” The team focused on the climate action plans until 2030. The tool allows users to toggle between 163 intended and actual climate plans, thus noting any changes in the two documents for a particular country. Nicholas Ozor, executive director of the Kenya-based African Technology Policy Studies Network, tells SciDev.Net that the tool could improve...
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Hallowain't III: Thorny devil
Science, Maths & Technology

Hallowain't III: Thorny devil

...its forelegs, leaving the false head where its real head used to be. Transcript Maybe having a spare head does manage to make the thorny devil quite an apt creature to bring the curtain down on our Hallowain't beastiary. Have a wonderful, safe halloween and perhaps we'll see you again next year for more horrors that, on closer inspection, turn out to not be horrors....
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Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit

...manage to secure a substantial 34% of the vote. These recent political developments illustrate the demise of well-established and taken-for-granted political frameworks such as, for example, the fundamental distinction between the ‘left’ and the ‘right’ which for a long time constituted a key ideological anchor for politics. Another example is offered by the...
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Float or sink?: Explore your child’s ideas about the physical world
Education & Development

Float or sink?: Explore your child’s ideas about the physical world

...managed to float a needle, for example, you probably found the idea that ‘it stays down once it’s sunk’ is different from ‘it comes up again if it’s pushed down’. Talking to your child about finding good explanations is also going to be helpful to them when they get involved in science at school. You’re probably used to your child asking you ‘why?’, but...
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Business Bursts: Supply chain
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Supply chain

...and the paper is printed and produced in Brazil. So in trying to actually create shorter supply chains and therefore greater value for these kinds of companies is a bigger management, but also marketing challenge particularly because of concerns about sustainability of the goods they sell and the energy input into producing them and where they come from. 3’52”...
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Is ‘fake news’ still a problem for society?
Society, Politics & Law

Is ‘fake news’ still a problem for society?

...The issues of how reliable information gets pushed out by false information, of how news reporting can be corrupted by propaganda, of how we manage the outsized role that social media and digital technologies now play in our lives. These are all going to continue as pressing issues that society needs to address, whatever term we might decide to use to describe them....
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The Eagle has landed within the OpenLearn community
Money & Business

The Eagle has landed within the OpenLearn community

...Managers understand their local and national ecosystems, so they can connect startups and scaleups with specialists, corporates, and investors. National network of incubators Eagle Labs operate a network of business incubators across the UK, designed to complement their local ecosystem and create a hub at the heart of their community. Founders can work from, and connect...
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5 tips on financially thriving
Money & Business

5 tips on financially thriving

...taught how to calculate and solve equations but we are not necessarily taught how to manage our moeny. Most adults have never had credit ratings, mortgages or interest rates explained to them but it's never too late to learn anything. Below are some of the free courses and articles to help you continue your journey. Start your financial learning journey on OpenLearn...
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