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Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud
Nature & Environment

Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud

...courses Cloud technologies continue to be an accelerating factor in digital transformation and innovation, but as the ‘cloud’ is out of sight, the term can portray cloud computing as a lighter-than-air panacea for both computing and the environment – this, though, it is not. Cloud technologies still rely on the same fundamental resources as all computing systems,...
Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One

...course, a grave concern for any society. The reduction of violence (in all its forms), harm and unnecessary human suffering sit at the centre of abolitionist thought. Placing people in prison to punish them for what they have done has been repeatedly proven NOT to work and, in fact, frequently stimulates rather than calms violence. If heightened public protection and...
The Science of Fear
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Science of Fear

...course there are some things that Darwin couldn't quite explain - for example, why people cover their mouths or the top of their heads when startled, although he did note that "the hand being placed over the mouth or on some part of the head has been observed in so many races of man that it must have some natural origin". It's possible that placing the hand over the mouth...
Religion and Violence
History & The Arts

Religion and Violence

...course was open but that which our country has taken.’ Such principles can also be used to justify violent opposition to oppressive regimes, as in the decision of the leading Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer to support the planned assassination of Hitler, and in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. However, because Christians take their inspiration from...
5 things you need to know about sepsis
Health, Sports & Psychology

5 things you need to know about sepsis

...concentrating or sleeping. Friends, relatives and carers may also have worries. Some people may have life-changing physical after-effects, such as Stella whose story is shown in the video There are resources and organisations that offer support for those who have experienced sepsis. The UK Sepsis Trust website Recovery After Sepsis brochure Like this? Try a FREE course...
Why we allow comments - and what we expect from you if you share your views
Get Started

Why we allow comments - and what we expect from you if you share your views

...courses, the ability to comment on material they published was removed from the site and the policy on comments no longer applies to their content. On the remainder of the site, normally the commenting opportunity is as close to the content as possible. In most cases, you'll find a comment box at the foot of a page. In some cases - for example, where we publish a sequence...
Migrant parenting
Health, Sports & Psychology

Migrant parenting

...courses and qualifications. The end of the twentieth century was marked by significant political and ideological changes in Europe. The fall of communism in the late 1980s, so vividly represented by the crumbling Berlin Wall, ushered the Eastern and Central European countries into an era of democracy and brought with it the capitalist values which started to replace the...
The rural dimension – rundale in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

The rural dimension – rundale in the West of Ireland

...course, small farms all over the world, and in many parts of Europe and Britain as well as all over Ireland. In that sense, what we see in the West of Ireland is part of a widespread distribution of this system of agriculture. It is the process of their establishment in the West of Ireland that is distinctive, representing a clash between the remnants of a particular...