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How to manage the digital-related stress of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to manage the digital-related stress of technology

...work and home life [email and afternoon tea] With email in our pocket it’s important to set boundaries in terms of when our working day begins and ends. Try turning off your email notifications and only check your emails at certain times of the day. Decide on the last time you will allow yourself to check your email, and send out any last minute replies… and then let...
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28 July 2005: 4 o'clock and all is well
OpenLearn Ireland

28 July 2005: 4 o'clock and all is well

...working together Irish republicans can achieve our objectives. Every Volunteer is aware of the import of the decisions we have taken and all Oglaigh are compelled to fully comply with these orders. There is now an unprecedented opportunity to utilise the considerable energy and goodwill which there is for the peace process. This comprehensive series of unparalleled...
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Fossil evidence for evolution
History & The Arts

Fossil evidence for evolution

...work has more than borne out his theories, explains Peter Skelton...[An ammonite fossil embedded in rock.] We tend to think of Charles Darwin as a kindly-looking old man with a big beard, but let's wind the clock back to the vigorous 22-year old embarking in 1831 on the voyage of a lifetime around the world on the survey ship, HMS Beagle. Recently down from Cambridge, his...
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Getting started with a Password Manager
Digital & Computing

Getting started with a Password Manager

...work computers. Fortunately, there is a solution – a password manager; a program that creates and securely stores passwords on your computer. Rather than remembering lots of passwords, a password manager means you only need a single password to unlock the manager itself. As a bonus, password managers can create enormous, complex passwords far too complex for humans to...
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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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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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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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