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What is a digital carbon footprint?
Nature & Environment

What is a digital carbon footprint?

...accounted for 2.44 billion, and Russia contributed 1.58 billion tonnes. The road to renewables A quarter (25%) of global carbon emissions come from electricity generation and the internet uses a great deal of electricity. Exactly how much is, again, still an open debate. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sixth report cites the combined electricity use...
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Does fiction make people more empathic and is that a good thing?
History & The Arts

Does fiction make people more empathic and is that a good thing?

...accounted for differences between texts statistically, which can lead to false positive results. And it’s not only important to consider different effects between narrative texts, but also differences across media. Viewing, versus reading, versus interacting with a story could have different and dissociable effects on empathy skills, such as interpreting facial...
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The science of genetics
Nature & Environment

The science of genetics

...account for the transmission of eye colour in humans. However, not until 1953 was the structure of DNA deduced by Watson and Crick. By the end of the 20th century, many thousands of genes had been discovered and their sequences determined, including many that have roles in disease. These genes are scattered throughout the genome. Our genetic structure Every cell of a...
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Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view
History & The Arts

Virtual reality, 19th Century style: The history of the panorama and balloon view

...accounts. Those trying to describe their airborne experiences found the panorama and its related devices to be a useful point of comparison. Before its appearance in 1792, authors of balloon accounts struggled for analogies to describe their experience. “I can find no simile to convey an idea of it”, wrote Vincent Lunardi of his elevated view of London. Thomas Baldwin...
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Looking at population data
Society, Politics & Law

Looking at population data

...account for the increase). [World Population Prospects Bahrain Line 2] Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2013). World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision. The increase in 15-64s between 1970 and 2000 may in part relate to the longer life expectancy and improved child mortality rate as children move from the 0-14...
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Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...accounts for a good deal of most households’ spending, it is important to make the most appropriate decisions about where to live, what kind of home to choose and whether to rent or buy it. Furthermore, in many countries, housing is seen not just as a place to live but as a store of wealth. This means decisions about housing are important at the household level in...
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Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...accounting matters, they are of key relevance to the subject of risk management. This is because investors and other stakeholders will examine the disclosures made under IFRS 7 to help ascertain how exposed an organisation is to financial risks. Additionally, the very fact that these disclosures have to be made places a requirement on the managers of organisations to...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...accounts, demonstrating how our stories resonated with, complicated, and deepened theirs. As Jones (2021, p. 217) writes: ‘We are living in a time and space in which the personal – our sense of selves, safety, health, and well-being, and our relationships with others and the planet and our work – is urgently and globally political.’ Addressing the critics Critics...
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