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Climate change’s costs are still escalating
Nature & Environment

Climate change’s costs are still escalating

...working outdoors in countries such as Malaysia The massive economic and health losses that climate change is already causing across the world are detailed in six scientific papers published on the 19th July. Perhaps most striking is the warning about large productivity losses already being experienced due to heat stress, which can already be calculated for 43 countries....
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Article 10 mins
Lighting the Industrial Revolution
History & The Arts

Lighting the Industrial Revolution

...work round the clock...Power cuts force us to rely on more primitive methods of illumination, such as candles, gas or oil-lamps. Candles and flame lamps were in fact the main source of illumination for millennia, up until the late Victorian era. It was many years before electricity was harnessed to provide a new form of lighting both homes and businesses. Why did it take...
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Article 5 mins
Five Inspiring Black Trailblazers from across Europe
History & The Arts

Five Inspiring Black Trailblazers from across Europe

...worked for a while as children's TV presenter - she was the face of Sweden's local variant of Disney Club - but moved on to producing and presenting current affairs. She studied political science at Stockholm University, fitting her studies around media work and a role at Sweden's industrial giant Skandia. She also held positions of responsibility in the Church, and sat...
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Article 10 mins
My digital life
Digital & Computing

My digital life

Everything is becoming digital - what does this mean for your life?...[Business person working on keyboard against a technology background] As part of Make it Digital Season we have curated some content around the digital world and how it affects our daily lives:
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Activity 1 hr
Detecting Deception: Can you spot a liar?
Society, Politics & Law

Detecting Deception: Can you spot a liar?

Some money has been stolen - everyone denies taking it but some people are lying. Can you work out who is telling the truth and who is being dishonest? Find out in our interactive...[Detecting Deception image] Select the image to start detecting!
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Activity 20 mins
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...working within an organisation. For example, you may have come across the story of the architect Christopher Wren when he was surveying the rebuilding of St Paul’s Cathedral after the Great Fire of London in 1666. Paraphrased, on encountering three stonemasons working on the rebuilding, he asked each the same question: ‘What are you doing?’ The reply from the first...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision

...work both in the UK and Europe. Her background is at the BBC and Red Bee Media, spending almost 10 years as a Creative, and then as acting Creative Head for CBeebies working across the BBC’s portfolio and commercial brands. She has created trailers and promotions for Deadly 60, Horrible Histories, Octonauts and beyond. She lives and breathes unique, creative ideas and...
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Video 30 mins
Everyday maths 1 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Wales)

...work, study and everyday life. The course has four sessions, which cover the following topics: numbers, measurement, shapes and space, and handling data. There will be plenty of examples to help you progress, together with opportunities to practise your understanding. A Welsh-language version of this course is also hosted on OpenLearn Cymru. Everyday maths 1 was written...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs