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James Smith - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Smith - Earth in Vision

...communities, specific areas of the world where there’s a real crisis for certain species, I think it would be immeasurably powerful. I think people in the Himalayas for example, who will sell a snow leopard pelt because it means food for their family for a month, if they knew a bit about the behaviour, if they fell a bit in love with that animal to a certain degree, and...
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Video 30 mins
Can comedy change your life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can comedy change your life?

...communal thing; it’s a release.” Perhaps, she says, because audiences tend to be squeezed together in comedy clubs, acts get to be accidental anthropologists and observe at close quarters how individuals interact when exposed to jokes or funny tales. “You [might] see a couple,” Higgins says, “and you can tell that they’re checking each other’s responses....
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Article 10 mins
Biofuels
Science, Maths & Technology

Biofuels

...community in Northern Canada where my father is a veterinarian so I spent a lot of time on farms and I worked on farms during the school holidays and then when I went to university I worked in the forest service for five years, actually while I was an undergraduate, fighting fires. I So what did you do when you did your first degree - what subject was that in? CS Well I...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...community-based fault lines (for example, in the case of Northern Ireland)...Week 1 Brexit as symptom: understanding the political geography of the vote: 3 Mapping the divisions - The outcomes of the referendum have been powerfully represented in maps. The process of mapping highlights the more complex patterns of the vote. Three maps are presented in Figure 2. The one in...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...communication provided to convince others of the quality of your work. Figure 1 showed various designs for a telephone. Differences might not only arise in the form of the product, though. There may also be differences in the physical or scientific principles that different designs exploit. Figure 2, for example, shows a conventional light bulb and a light-emitting diode,...
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Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...communication within the marriage might be triggering some of their problems. [LAUGHTER] But I was also struck by the burdensome nature of such mutual secrecy. Depression is so exhausting. It takes up so much of your time and energy, and silence about it really does make the depression worse. And then I began thinking about all the ways people make themselves better. I'd...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...Communities, [online] available from: http://eur-lex.europa.eu (accessed 20 September 2011). Week 3...Week 2: Solar energy for heating and daylighting: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Godfrey Boyle from Chapter 3 of Renewable Energy (Boyle, G. (ed) OUP, 2012)), originally authored by Bob Everett, and updated in 2017 by Sebastián Tyrrell. Except for...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...communicate, usually electronically, instead. For example, it is possible to set up a wiki and add suggestions over a period of a few days. Brainwriting is attractive because it can overcome some of the problems associated with brainstorming but another big advantage it offers is that people can participate remotely...Successful IT systems: 4.2 Identifying stakeholder...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs