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Belfast - healthy city
Society, Politics & Law

Belfast - healthy city

...course K311 Promoting public health: skills, perspectives and practice... Belfast - healthy city A short introduction to this album. Healthy Cities: the idea Ilona Kickbusch on how the Healthy Cities Movement began in the mid nineteen eighties as a European initiative. Healthy Cities: the reality Ilona Kickbusch on how the initiative spread out from Europe to the rest of...
Do music lessons help with children's other classes?
Education & Development

Do music lessons help with children's other classes?

...course, even if music does not improve cognitive abilities and educational outcomes, it is still one of the main ways human beings express their feelings and creativity. It is a universal language everybody can understand and enjoy – so there are still plenty of good reasons to teach, perform, and listen to a variety of music.[The Conversation] This article was...
Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...course of five consecutive assessments, starting with the assessment in 1990 and now with the most recent one in 2013, an integral element of our communication was uncertainty. And we have spent hours, days and weeks to assess very carefully the uncertainty. This time around we even produced at the beginning of the assessment cycle a document that laid out how uncertainty...
More or Less: interview with Tim Harford
Science, Maths & Technology

More or Less: interview with Tim Harford

...courses and articles about maths and statistics Learn how to read and interpret social data with our Postcode Patterns interactive 1) What's changed on More or Less over the years? Are there less statistical mistakes in the news these days? Transcript: "I hadn't noticed that, but you're probably right. And if that's true, why is it true?" KEVIN MCCONWAY: Thanks for...
Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision

...course. What films first inspired me I think the first natural history film that really moved me emotionally was the story of Solo and it was Hugo van Lawick’s film that he made with Jane Goodall and it was the story of a wild dog. Solo was the runt of the litter, I mean the classic underdog and the whole question of whether or not this particular individual was going...
What does the US election mean for Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the US election mean for Europe?

...course of retrenchment. Despite the EU’s June publication of its Global Strategy report, it has steadily embarked on being less of a global player in the course of the last three years. Pressured by Russian belligerence and unprecedented migration flows, the EU has slowly but perceptibly abandoned its ‘out-of-area’ commitments in favour of guarding its borders on...
Stephen Hawking: The tributes
Science, Maths & Technology

Stephen Hawking: The tributes

...course, brilliant. — errolmorris (@errolmorris) March 14, 2018 Australian reaction There have been reactions too from the world of Astronomy in Australia. Alan Duffy, Associate Professor and Research Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology Professor Stephen Hawking was an inspiration to me to become not just a scientist but a communicator of that science. His work as...
Chinese education: How do things work?
Society, Politics & Law

Chinese education: How do things work?

...courses and qualifications. [Market street in China displaying Chinese flags.] The People's Republic of China was founded in 1949. It has an area of 9.6 million square kilometres with two thirds of the country covered in highlands or hill regions. A nation of geographical and cultural diversity, China’s population in 2005 was 1.314 billion. Over the last decade China...