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Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system
Science, Maths & Technology

Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system

...determine the costs of housing and food. We need new strategies that simultaneously address basic needs and the planetary health threats with which we live, including global heating, biodiversity loss and pollution, which all risk human health. Through living systems design we can, for example, use multiplying, leveraging and amplifying design strategies. In combination,...
From boom to bust: the AI winter
Digital & Computing

From boom to bust: the AI winter

...determinations. Quietly, AI began to make significant progress in many areas; including diagnosing diseases, exploring scientific and engineering data, and driving ever more sophisticated robots. These rule-based systems proved to be highly effective and useful in specific domains; they proved to be as good, or even better than humans in making decisions within specific...
Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman
History & The Arts

Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman

...determined and carefully planned campaign for a location, with the support of local councillors and several MPs, Manchester City Council finally agreed the use of the Ardwick site. The search for development funding was long and hard. Finally, in 1989, Cariocca Enterprises was established and building began at Hellidon Close. Louise Da-Cocodia was the first Chair and...
Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model
Science, Maths & Technology

Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model

...helped NASA to put humans into space. But as an African-American woman, her legacy is perhaps even greater. She has given us a role model, showing that if we have the determination, our skills and talents can take us as high as we wish to fly.[The Conversation] This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article....
Sibling rivalry: An important ingredient in sporting success?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sibling rivalry: An important ingredient in sporting success?

...determined not to be outdone by her big sisters … Because of that early rivalry, she has always had a competitive streak.’ It appears that trying to win favour with parents or getting noticed/recognised is a motivating factor in these gold medal winning athletes. Victoria Pendleton admits to being competitive with her twin brother Alex as a child in order to win...
Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis
Society, Politics & Law

Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis

...determination to punish Greek voters by putting into action German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble’s plan to push Greece out of the eurozone, redenominate Greek bank deposits in a currency that was not even ready, and even ban the use of euros in Greece. These threats, independently of whether they were credible or not, did untold damage to the European Union’s...
Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...determine the possibilities for political action. In the following three sections you will examine examples from each of these different social psychological approaches – i.e. personality, social identity, and social constructionist approaches – and how they can be used to help better understand the political. Each of these approaches is also covered in the Open...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Astronomy with an online telescope Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy with an online telescope

...determine when it is safe to open the telescope dome. There are also webcams showing views of the site and of the telescopes inside the COAST and PIRATE domes. [Described image] Figure 6 The All-Sky camera. Stars that are visible are marked in green. The red circles indicate stars that are not visible, perhaps because of cloud or mist towards the northern and eastern...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs