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Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...human population growth and levels of resource consumption of those populations. The Earth Overshoot Day website reminds us about the relation of resource consumption to what the Earth can provide on a sustainable basis. This is called ‘ecological overshoot’. Humanity is using nature 1.8 times faster than our planet’s biocapacity can regenerate. The massive increase...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Artificial intelligence: implications for social work writing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Artificial intelligence: implications for social work writing

...resources. Widespread use of new tools such as Magic Notes are now common with the aim of reducing the time needed and improving the quality of writing. Technological support in recording can be helpful but there are some challenges. Research shows that AI is not yet reliable in predicting risk or reflecting the nuances of language and context that are essential within...
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Article 5 mins
Studying mammals: Food for thought
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Food for thought

...humans related? And where does the extinct Homo erectus fit into the puzzle? In this free course, Studying mammals: Food for thought, we will examine culture, tool use and social structure in both apes and humans to gain an understanding of where we come from and why we behave as we do. This is the tenth course in the Studying mammals series...Who were our ancestors? How...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Heritage in war
History & The Arts

Heritage in war

...resources; any resource a commander puts into protecting cultural property is a resource that cannot be used for mitigating risks to soldiers, or protecting civilians. What kind of value is the value of the cultural property? How do we balance the value of the cultural property against other values – such as ameliorating risk to life? Secondly, article 4.2 above says...
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Article 10 mins
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...resources; and the global efforts to combat international terrorism. You will come away with an insight into how to analyse and understand international affairs...In this free course you will be introduced to the subject of International Relations (IR). Drawn from the undergraduate module D228 Exploring international relations: actors, issues, perspectives, it will give...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Do animals have sex for fun?
Nature & Environment

Do animals have sex for fun?

...humans are the only animal to experience sexual pleasure; that we approach sex in a way that is distinct from others. As with many questions about sex, this exposes some interesting facts about the way we discuss the subject. [Snails having sex] On one level, the question of whether humans and nonhumans experience sex in the same way is fairly simply dismissed: how would...
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Article 5 mins
60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence
Digital & Computing

60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence

...human intelligence. However, even the best modern AI is nothing like the “general” intelligence that humans possess. It is more like a hugely complicated descendent of those early automatons. So How Does Modern AI Work? Modern AI systems mimic the connectivity of the human brain. They combine the results of millions of simple computations in a specific way to react...
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Video 10 mins
World Archaeology
History & The Arts

World Archaeology

...human race. This album provides an introduction to archaeology and its methodologies for excavation of sites that can be more than 12000 years old. Like piecing together a jigsaw puzzle but without a picture guide, archaeologists can establish how cities and civilisations developed, why humans started farming, and how empires formed and collapsed. This material forms part...
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Audio 1 hr 6 mins