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How are drones keeping track of songbirds?
Nature & Environment

How are drones keeping track of songbirds?

...technology for monitoring songbird populations. Although the method currently has some pitfalls, it has the potential to become an important scientific tool. Surveying bird populations is crucial for environmental management, but it is inherently challenging. Some types of terrain are difficult to access, and human observers introduce the element of human bias. The use of...
Innovation Design: Sustainable Communities
Science, Maths & Technology

Innovation Design: Sustainable Communities

...technological experiment. In our world of finite resources and massive over-consumption, “breathing” walls, earth-shelters, composting toilets, "living machines" to deal with wastewater – are just some of the technologies which we may all have to get used to. These eco-communities are all breaking new ground by demonstrating how implementation of innovative...
How does an MRI scanner work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How does an MRI scanner work?

...technology plays in modern medicine...MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanners are one of the most advanced diagnostic tools in use today. They are used to create detailed images of the inside of the human body - without the need for surgery or X-rays. In this video, experts at Neath Port Talbot College’s Academy of Sports explain how MRI technology works, how it helps...
Economic incentives for countries to decarbonise
Money & Business

Economic incentives for countries to decarbonise

...technologies does not always come at a price – the benefits may outweigh the costs. Think of Roosevelt’s ‘New Deal’, when government spending was used to create jobs which brought the USA out of the Great Depression. New technologies are now developing rapidly. The growth of a new technology starts slowly. It’s likely to be expensive at first, and perhaps...
The Four Generations of Computers
Science, Maths & Technology

The Four Generations of Computers

...technology changed throughout these years. Visiting locations such as The National Museum of Computing in Milton Keynes and The Centre for Computing History in Haverhill, we see an array of fascinating machines and learn about them along the way. This material forms part of The Open University course TU100 My digital life... Colossus: The World's First Electronic Computer...
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...technologies’, Policy Futures in Education, 19(4), pp. 478–492. (Read from p. 483 – p. 489 starting at: Research methods.) As you read make notes about: The competing values which are at play. The necessity to compromise to achieve goals. The ways in which voices are silenced. The fears you might have in working in a way that subverted what was being expected of you...
What can emoji teach us about human civilization?
Languages

What can emoji teach us about human civilization?

...educational purpose to the little pictures used to communicate?...Despite their popularity, emoji are still often viewed as a frivolous form of communication. For some, they seem to be a huge step back for civilization.[1] Is it really the case that five and a half thousand years after the Egyptians invented hieroglyphics we’re once again resorting to communication via...
Vikings - just misunderstood?
History & The Arts

Vikings - just misunderstood?

...technology, urban trading, and international economics which have come to define modern living are nothing new. Back in the first millennium AD, the Vikings were experts at exploring these very issues. Between the 8th and 11th century (the Viking Age), Europe saw significant technological advances, not all of them Scandinavian – the Anglo-Saxons, Frisians and Franks...