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

How we can all tackle our digital carbon footprints

...courses Shrinking footprints Climate change presents humanity with a series of enormous challenges. Unifying these is a single imperative: to avoid catastrophic climate change impacts by capping global temperature rises to 1.5℃. Achieving this is a monumental challenge, and requires every corporation, government and citizen to make swift, significant changes to our...
A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast
OpenLearn Ireland

A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast

...courses. Episode 1: The role of the Arts in a post-conflict society Episode 1 host and guests [Photograph of our host, Jordan Keeny.] Host: Jordan Kenny, BBC Radio 1 Jordan Kenny’s a TV and radio presenter/reporter, normally heard on BBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat programme. Originally from Dromore in County Down, he worked for BBC Northern Ireland for four years before...
Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology
Society, Politics & Law

Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology

...course the very concept of ‘public health’ has multiple meanings. A relatively uncontroversial starting definition is that public health is: …the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts of society This definition contains the idea of collective efforts furthering the health of a population and that...
What is a scientific model?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a scientific model?

...courses, and he wrote the essence of being a physicist is knowing which approximations to make. And so whenever we’re seeking to understand something, you need to tease out what are the important things that are influencing this. Because you can’t possibly hope to create a replica of the whole universe because you’d need the whole universe to do it and you...
‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining

...free to download and use these poster images from the project as educational resources, but please include our OU reference. Always ASK about food allergies [An illustration on allergy awareness in food service with tips and checklists.]Show descriptionThis illustration guides how to handle customers with allergies in a restaurant setting. The image is divided into three...
Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?

...freeing up more of their time to focus elsewhere, thus reducing the workload, stress and pressure of the role. It was also suggested that this might have the knock-on effect of making the coaching role appear more attractive to others – thus recruiting more people into the profession. ‘AI can be used for session planning and annual planning’. Coaches also talked...
Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing
History & The Arts

Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing

...free of that is actually to deliberately play around with the rhythms of the characters. Think of some people having a slow, quite mellow way of expressing themselves, and other people being quite spiky and quite sharp. Even listen to different types of music for each character. So say this character reminds me of this piece of classical music, and this character reminds...
The life of Mama Elouise Edwards
History & The Arts

The life of Mama Elouise Edwards

...free movement of people. In 1960, Beresford came to work in England and to study lithography. The following year Elouise came to join him bringing their young son. It was Beresford Junior’s third birthday when their ship docked at Plymouth. They then had a train journey to London. Elouise remembers it vividly: It was June when I arrived and it was freezing cold. I...