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The planet as the stakeholder
Money & Business

The planet as the stakeholder

...world is ruled from towns [cities] where men [and women] are cut off from any form of life other than human, the feeling of belonging to a (natural) ecosystem is not revived. - Fritz Schumacher, p.44 It is this disconnect that permeates through business management philosophy and in stakeholder identification. Although there is work ongoing in this area, there is not yet a...
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Ten commandments of research
History & The Arts

Ten commandments of research

...World War One. You might not be able to read every single newspaper for four years. You might need to take key events or to do a systematic search, say taking different months at random or looking at key events. What are the advantages of your particular method of investigation? Oral history, for example, can make history come alive but it can be biased, inaccurate or...
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Why is East Africa experiencing such a terrible drought?
Nature & Environment

Why is East Africa experiencing such a terrible drought?

...World crops such as maize. Maize was introduced in 1608 and since then it has largely replaced more traditional and drought-resistant crops such as cassava or sorghum. Maize provides excellent calorific returns in good years, but it often fails and has challenges around infestation and storage during drought years. Further lessons from history show us that pastoral...
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The physical impacts of ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

The physical impacts of ADHD

...world and the risks they take. It is not uncommon for me to find that I have bruises of ‘unknown origin’ as I can’t remember what caused them, and they can take a while to heal. Working in familiar places tends to help as I have learned how to manoeuvre my body in those spaces and can take care of regular trip or bump hazards. Sore muscles and joints – as either...
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What can you do with leftover coffee grounds?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can you do with leftover coffee grounds?

...world and, once we brew it, an awful lot of waste is created. The vast majority ends up in landfill. [Coffee beans] There's gold in them there beans. Or polyhydroxyalkanoates, at least. Researchers in South Korea, however, have discovered a way of using waste coffee grounds as a fuel in a far more literal sense. In a study in Nanotechnology, they report using coffee waste...
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A very brief history of AI
Digital & Computing

A very brief history of AI

...world a group of psychologists wrote: Further work must be done before the program will be ready for clinical use. If the method proves beneficial, then it would provide a therapeutic tool which can be made widely available to mental hospitals and psychiatric centers suffering a shortage of therapists. Because of the time-sharing capabilities of modern and future...
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The trouble with teaching physics
Health, Sports & Psychology

The trouble with teaching physics

...world based on their everyday experiences. For example, students sometimes mistakenly think that light and electricity flow like water or that cold is not the absence of heat, but a substance with a physical location that can flow from one place to another. The trouble is that students’ incorrect ideas can lead them to reject what they are taught. Even when teachers...
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Racial inequities in health: The impact of COVID-19 in Wales and beyond
Health, Sports & Psychology

Racial inequities in health: The impact of COVID-19 in Wales and beyond

...world are responding to the pandemic via creative and artful resistance to marginalisation. It exploits the creative potential of smartphone tools for digital ethnographic research. Migrants share pandemic experiences in poems, songs, music, photos, short videos, written testimonies, diaries, artworks and blogs. Learn more with OpenLearn [Open Talks from The Open...
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