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How we can all tackle our digital carbon footprints
Nature & Environment

How we can all tackle our digital carbon footprints

...working article (linked below), some of the actions we can take to reduce our personal digital carbon footprints are small, yet impactful. These easier-to-implement actions can help overcome some of the hesitation and hopelessness many experience when trying to comprehend how their individual actions can begin to make a dent in the global challenge, and therefore help...
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Article 5 mins
Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Education & Development

Reparations for slavery in Barbados

...worked together to ensure vast financial success for those who were invested in the island. With this boom in the demand for sugar came the use of slavery (Knorr, 1944, p. 12). Operation of Slavery Owing to its geographic location, a large number of those arriving in Barbados came via the Middle Passage (the route from West Africa across the Atlantic Ocean). The horrors...
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Article 5 mins
Citizen science and global biodiversity Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and global biodiversity

...works. In his book Citizen Science, Alan Irwin considers the role that scientific expertise can play in bringing the public and science together and building a more scientifically active citizenry, empowering individuals to contribute to scientific development (Irwin, 1995). Rick Bonney also used the term citizen science in 1995 to describe the growing number of research...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Human use of animals
History & The Arts

Human use of animals

...work of philosophy, marking the birth of the modern animal rights movement – though its author spoke not of rights per se, but, as a utilitarian, in terms, put crudely, of maximising interests or happiness. The Australian author is now at Princeton and arguably the world’s most famous philosopher. He argues that some animals have a higher moral status than some humans...
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Audio 15 mins
Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...work, in education and in society in general. Lurraine Jones looks at the politicisation of Black hair and microaggressions experienced by Black women. ...Google ‘Unprofessional Hairstyles for Women’. Now have a look at ‘Professional Hairstyles for Women’. Notice anything? In a popular magazine article about the understudied relationship between Black women and...
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Article 5 mins
Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy
History & The Arts

Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy

...works of Coleridge and Wordsworth. More recently, the role of the imagination in empathy has been stressed: the ability to identify with our fellow human beings and with fictional characters being regarded as crucial in accessing other minds, enriching our own experience and developing our moral sense. In fact, in the history of western thought, the imagination has been...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...work describe some basic techniques relating to reading, for example, highlighting, note-taking and the processing write in your own words using references and quoting sources...Reading and note taking – preparation for study: Introduction - This course is about the very basic study skills of reading and taking notes. You will be asked to think about how you currently...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Myths in law
Society, Politics & Law

Myths in law

...works? If you have, then this free course is for you. You will be looking at some of the biggest myths around criminal law and criminal courts to see how accurate a picture they are painting. You will see whether it is true that all criminal cases are tried by jury and whether convicted criminals are really let off without prison sentences. Just don’t expect any gavels!...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs