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Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems
Nature & Environment

Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems

...humans are having on the environment...What is ecology and why is it important to our understanding of the world around us? This free course, Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems, looks at how we can study ecosystems to explore the effect that humans are having on the environment....Introducing the environment: ecology and ecosystems: Introduction - This...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The role sustainable chemistry plays in shaping the planet's future
Science, Maths & Technology

The role sustainable chemistry plays in shaping the planet's future

...humanity. Achieving sustainability involves many challenges, from preserving resources to tackling pollution arising from plastics, persistent organic pollutants and gaseous emissions. These pollutants are ubiquitous in the environment and have been found in the planet’s waters, land and air. The chemical sciences will be instrumental in developing novel solutions to...
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Article 5 mins
If a pig gives you a new liver, do you give the pig rights?
History & The Arts

If a pig gives you a new liver, do you give the pig rights?

...human-animal chimera creatures. Ethicists need to keep up to be ready for them, says Joshua Shepherd...[A pig] If you needed an organ transplant, would you mind if it had been grown in an animal from human stem cells? Or would you do it but deep down find it frighteningly unnatural? This may all sound like science fiction, but scientists recently managed to implant human...
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Article 5 mins
Cyborgs and cybernetics
Science, Maths & Technology

Cyborgs and cybernetics

...human advances or a Hollywood-style nightmare in which human beings have become a sub-species? Could we one day download our minds? This album gives an insight into the development of cybernetics and how it is used to fuse technology and humanity. The interfaces that communicate between man and machine are developing rapidly and to Prof. Kevin Warwick at Reading...
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Audio 12 mins
Being heard
Education & Development

Being heard

...resources. My digital presence within wider society. Adolescent mental health. I spent over twenty years teaching adolescents in Secondary and Higher Education. The air of each classroom was dense with hormones and possibility, but it is also a hugely challenging time of life. I feel I shall always have more to learn about mental health in this time of change and growth....
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Article 5 mins
Modern slavery
Society, Politics & Law

Modern slavery

...human rights protection in relation to modern slavery, but also encourage an appreciation of the influence of International Human Rights Law on the development of the domestic system of human rights protection...This free course, Modern slavery, is designed to develop an understanding of the international system of human rights protection in relation to modern slavery,...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Displaced children of our time
Education & Development

Displaced children of our time

...human crisis of forced migration is one of the greatest political and social issues of our time. The effects of war, poverty and climate change have led millions of people across the world to flee their homes, in search of a safer, better life elsewhere: 65.6 million people are displaced from home today (UNHCR). Developing countries in fact host 80% of the world’s...
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Article 10 mins
Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment
Nature & Environment

Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment

...human, animal and plant motifs in red, green, black and white glass beads and outlined with small metal staples.] Three-legged carved wooden stool with circular seat “My philosophy in development, is like the traditional African stool, which is comprised of seat and three legs. The first leg represents democratic space, where rights – whether human, women’s,...
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Article 10 mins