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AI without borders: balancing productivity and privacy in agriculture
Science, Maths & Technology

AI without borders: balancing productivity and privacy in agriculture

...human civilisation. From hunting and foraging, it evolved into farming, sparking the Neolithic Revolution. Since then, agriculture has transformed through ancient, medieval, and industrial eras, and today is being reshaped by technology and artificial intelligence...Feeding the world Agriculture is a combination of science and skill. It refers to cultivating seeds,...
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What are the challenges and opportunities of urban artificial intelligence and robotics?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are the challenges and opportunities of urban artificial intelligence and robotics?

...human ones have arrived...The recent AI Safety Summit and press coverage suggest we need to think carefully about these new urban technologies. On one hand, the benefits of these new automated technologies such as driverless cars and delivery robots may be significant. For example, these new technologies may improve accessibility to essential food supplies for older...
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Can microplastics find their way onto your plate?
Nature & Environment

Can microplastics find their way onto your plate?

...human health and can they get into our food? Joanna Jesionkowska, a research student at The Open University, looks into this here...Find out more about The Open University's Environment qualifications. “Only One Earth” is the motto of 2022’s World Environment Day . It will focus on the need to live sustainably in harmony with nature, and our possibilities for...
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The planet as the stakeholder
Money & Business

The planet as the stakeholder

...resources are largely omitted and may only be heard through specialist lobbying groups. In my own experience, as an Open University tutor and business consultant, I’ve conducted many stakeholder analyses, often classified by the following dimensions: Power – those able to marshal the means to impose their will. Legitimacy – those who have little input in the...
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Neither land nor sea
Nature & Environment

Neither land nor sea

...Human beings are as much a part of this environment and landscape as are the sea and the mountains. This Learning Journey explores the multiple interrelationships between the coast and the people of the archipelago. It does this through supporting text, images and other materials. It focuses on the residents of one small island, Nain Pulau (Nain Island), providing some...
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Activity 6 hrs
Is Anthropology of Religion Racist?
History & The Arts

Is Anthropology of Religion Racist?

...humanity’s earliest ancestors. As throwbacks to the stone age, their religious practices indicated patterns of thought and cognition that, according to the white, European standards of the day, were irrational and fatally enmeshed in “primitive” and mystical causalities. The origins of religion lay, according to these anthropologists and sociologists, in these...
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Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds
Society, Politics & Law

Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds

...human world of science and politics, and the non-human world of material objects and other living things like plants, in a way that only a subject like Geography can do. So we start in Syria, a place which has been the site of intense armed conflict and political and social instability. The immediate human cost of war is something we often see in the news. But far less...
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Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...human rights be applied across borders or are rights culturally specific? Is it realistic, or even desirable, to aim at an international system based on universal principles of justice? This free course, Rights and justice in international relations, takes a critical view of the assumption that 'rights are a good thing' and looks at the problems that arise when they are...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs