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Here's how we can save the car – and the planet at the same time
Science, Maths & Technology

Here's how we can save the car – and the planet at the same time

...system? If car travel is going to remain common, perhaps we need to be smarter about how we build and use them. Our cars currently spend 92% of their time parked – and, when driving, most of their weight is used only to carry one person most of the time. Cars could be produced in fewer numbers, to be smaller, longer-lasting and shared by more people. And instead of...
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Article 10 mins
What do we need to know about our memory?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we need to know about our memory?

...thinking skills? This article explores...Ageing brings about age-related decline to all our organs and that includes our brain. Our brain is in a sense a central computer where everything that is happening in our bodies and minds gets processed (read more in our article The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'). We do not know exactly how our organs, including the brain,...
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Article 15 mins
Could volunteering be bad for our health?
Society, Politics & Law

Could volunteering be bad for our health?

...systems should create opportunities for citizens to help shape decision about health-care, and that citizens should take them up. Volunteering suffers from similar definitional uncertainty but one excellent overview places it within “a cluster of ‘helping’ activities”. It is this subtle distinction between an empowered and change-oriented model of participation,...
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Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help

...system (heart, veins, arteries, circulation of blood), immune system (how our body protects itself from infection and how it is supported to recover after illnesses and injuries), respiratory system (clearance of lungs, chronic coughs, breathing), hormonal changes and musculoskeletal systems (bones thinning, loosening muscles, weaker joints, tendons and decreasing...
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Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...thinking. You will also think about barriers to inclusion and the difference between integration and inclusion. In addition, you will consider some of the key documents, such as the Salamanca Statement and the Additional Learning Needs Code, that underpin current thinking in this area. This Badged Open Course is part of a collection of training resources for school...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
What is a scientific model?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a scientific model?

...system of simple equations or perhaps quite complex equations into a computer programme and you can then set the programme to go to watch the interplay of the various factors that you’ve teased out as being important. So, for example, if you were trying to understand how the planets in the solar system move, then you would need to put in a mathematical description of...
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Is democracy a good thing?
Society, Politics & Law

Is democracy a good thing?

...thinking that democracy is unequivocally a good thing. But is it? Even Winston Churchill, who frequently spoke in favour of the system, stigmatized it as the worst form of government (apart from all the others that have been tried). The great Greek philosopher, Plato, was no fan of democracy. There are a couple of arguments he had against it which have a particular...
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Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...systems. The process of globalisation has disseminated free market capitalist orthodoxy – generally allied to democratic systems of government – throughout the world. With these processes has come growth in the environmental and social movements. Conventions on climate change, biodiversity and trade agreements, shaped by, among others, global rather than national...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs