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Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...think that climate change is all natural. How are you certain that it's not? TS: Well, just look at the measurements that many societies, the World Metrological Organisation, but every reasonable Met service of every country around the world is taking. I have in particular a paleoclimatic perspective where we see how much the earth's atmosphere, every composition has...
Business Bursts: Failure
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Failure

...system and the banking system, governments all round the world had to intervene and you now have a fiscal crisis, whereby there’s rising public debts, rising public deficits and governments have limited room for manoeuvre for boosting the economy. In particular, they're limited in their room for manoeuvre for creating opportunities out of, or new phoenixes out of the...
Birth of the Welfare State
History & The Arts

Birth of the Welfare State

...system of compulsory insurance. Every worker, by contributing to a scheme of national insurance deducted through the weekly or monthly pay packet, would be helping to build up a fund that would pay out weekly benefits to those who were sick or unemployed or who suffered industrial injury. The scheme would pay pensions at the end of a working life to employees and the...
How can education contribute to sustainability?
Education & Development

How can education contribute to sustainability?

...system respond? How might you expect your local education system to respond given your awareness of constraints on it? How can local education systems respond to the wider, global environmental challenges? How do your responses to these questions connect with any of the three models for education introduced in week 2 of the course? [Photo 75901918 © Stepan Popov |...
Does cancer treatment increase the risk of severe COVID-19 and why?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does cancer treatment increase the risk of severe COVID-19 and why?

...system, so what happens if patient undergoing treatment comes into contact with COVID-19?...Cancer treatments including chemotherapy, radiotherapy, targeted therapy or surgery can compromise a patient´s immune system. Therefore, the risk of becoming seriously ill with SARS-CoV-2 could be higher. How does chemotherapy impact a cancer patient's response to COVID-19? Many...
Embarking on a career in cyber security
Digital & Computing

Embarking on a career in cyber security

...systems as well as some of the techniques and technologies that can be used to keep these systems safe from attack. As online systems become an ever important part of our daily lives, they are going to be increasingly attractive targets for a range of cyber attackers. This makes cyber security an important and exciting discipline to work in, with a variety of career paths...
Expert insight: Amazonian challenges and policy responses
Nature & Environment

Expert insight: Amazonian challenges and policy responses

...System and the challenges it faces...The Amazon has a long history of survival, why is it now threatened? Below you’ll find a series of articles that explore the Amazon System and its natural resources in more detail. Read about the interdependencies of these resources, and the effects of the actions taken by man. Is it too late to reverse the decline? What does the...
How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?
Education & Development

How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?

...systemic racism directly. What is being done now? What can be done moving forward?...After the Race Relations Act of 2000 and the MacPherson Report (1999), a national target to increase racial and ethnic diversity among the UK’s police forces was enacted. Such actions are founded on the belief that increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of the police would help...