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‘Resilience isn’t enough’: why the growth of women’s football could lead to player burnout
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Resilience isn’t enough’: why the growth of women’s football could lead to player burnout

...manage childcare, training, travel and recovery with little institutional support. Maternity policies remain inconsistent, and many players face intense pressure to return quickly to peak form after pregnancy. Extraordinary resilience Despite these enormous challenges, female players continue to demonstrate extraordinary resilience, paving the way for the next generation....
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Reducing digital carbon footprint through responsible procurement
Nature & Environment

Reducing digital carbon footprint through responsible procurement

...manage the waste. [Pile of retired computer processors with gold plated pins] Beyond CO2e emissions, eWaste contains materials that can, when disposed of without proper care, cause significant long-term harm to humans, the environment and biodiversity. From a human health perspective, these noxious emissions cause birth and growth defects including lung, cardiovascular,...
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Simple coding
Digital & Computing

Simple coding

...Introduction - Software makes the world go round. Cars and TVs have software that controls how they work, and global commerce and finance are impossible without software that control the stocks, carry out payments, find the best transport route, etc. Coding (or programming) is the construction of software. Coding involves writing a ‘recipe’, which in computing is...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision

...Project My name is Ade Thomas and I am the founder of Green.TV which is an online platform for publishing sustainability, clean tech and conservation video content. This is what I do So, Green.TV’s mission is to communicate conservation, clean tech and sustainability issues. We do that via what we call a multichannel publishing platform; that means a system of channels...
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Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...Project Wildscreen, 20th – 23rd October 2014 My name is Caroline Underwood and I’m now a senior producer at the CBC’s science series called The Nature of Things with David Suzuki. How I got started I was one of those unlikely little girls that actually did like to play out of doors and my father liked to walk and we did a lot of walking in the woods. When I went to...
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Attention
Society, Politics & Law

Attention

...manage to single out sounds and images that require attention and how easy is it to distract someone and why...What does 'attention' mean to you? This free course, Attention, will help you to examine how we 'pay attention'. How do we manage to single out sounds and images that require attention and how easy is it to distract someone and why....Attention: Introduction -...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
What do literary agents do?
History & The Arts

What do literary agents do?

...manage the careers of writers throughout their life, but really, it’s half business and it’s half creative, editorial, psychological. PHILIP SEARGEANT: Could you say something about the criteria you look for in identifying new talents and possibly to what extent the market these days is a factor in that? JONNY GELLER: Well, the market is always a factor in the choice...
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‘Rule Britannia, Britannia Rules the Waves’: From fishing patriotism to pragmatism
Nature & Environment

‘Rule Britannia, Britannia Rules the Waves’: From fishing patriotism to pragmatism

...managed fairly is through co-operation between the different nations who fish them. It’s easy to understand why UK fishermen resent the EU and the Common Fisheries Policy. The quota shares that the UK government agreed to on entering the EU were less favourable compared to the French, for example. The way that the UK government allocated its share of the EU total catch...
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