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Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...articles has made it harder to communicate climate change successfully. What do we mean by successfully? We mean communication in a way that makes it feel real and as momentous as it is, so that it moves people – emotionally – to engage in some way, rather than avoid, that reality. You may well recognise many features of these reactions to climate change in your own...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
An introduction to artificial intelligence
Education & Development

An introduction to artificial intelligence

...article on COMPAS (Angwin et al., 2016) is commonly cited in this connection, that variables such as race, nationality and even skin colour have been used previously as input into such procedures for assessing the risk of recidivism etc. Even if such overtly discriminatory variables are not used, such algorithms reveal themselves to be nevertheless discriminatory on the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role

...et al. (2021, p.20) cite the seminal work of Caspersen et al. (1985) who define physical activity in terms of three elements: movement of the body produced by the skeletal muscles resulting energy expenditure, which varies from low to high a positive correlation with physical fitness. It is important to note that physical activity and exercise are not quite the same...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Using data visualisation to track climate change
Nature & Environment

Using data visualisation to track climate change

...database which details information from national to continental level,” Ozor says. The tool offers opportunity for policymakers, scientists and other actors to gain insights into the status of African countries, sub-regions and the continent as a whole with regards to climate actions, Ozor adds. This article was originally published by SciDevNet under a CC-BY licence...
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Sands of time
Science, Maths & Technology

Sands of time

...at the end of the last Ice Age as the glaciers melted. If you look carefully amongst the muddy debris, you may even be able to find small pieces of broken bones and teeth, the remains of woolly rhinos, mammoths and other mammals that roamed the frozen edges of this ancient icy landscape. This article was originally published Summer 2005 as part of the Coast Postcards pack...
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Activity 5 mins
Practice supervision and assessment in nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Practice supervision and assessment in nursing

...et al., 2018) which you completed in Section 2 or SWOT analysis (Carlson, 2016) are useful tools to encourage students to reflect and identify strengths, learning needs (weaknesses), opportunities and threats. It provides a baseline from which learning objectives can be established. Activity 16 Read Morrison’s (2011) article ‘SWOT analysis for Nurses and Health care...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
How can Wikipedia Activism restore diversity to science?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Wikipedia Activism restore diversity to science?

...be invisible. We still need them. The Wikipedia page for Beth Brown, an African-American astrophysicist, could be expanded. Here are some places to start. Are you interested in mathematicians? I’ve gathered some materials to improve the page for Alice Bache Gould on the article’s talk page: have a go! This article originally appeared on the PLOS blog network...
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Why do Taylor Swift & Sylvia Plath have more in common than you might think?
History & The Arts

Why do Taylor Swift & Sylvia Plath have more in common than you might think?

...Me Do” is anything to go by, it’s even bigger things. Having clapped back to her haters with this self-reflexive single, she’s now got the ticket touts in her sights. [The Conversation]They would do well to heed the lines from Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” – “Beware / Beware”. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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