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Assistive technologies and online learning
Education & Development

Assistive technologies and online learning

...thinking about how assistive technology can facilitate access to learning resources or teaching material, the focus is on providing access to technologies that will bridge the ‘access gap’ between the teaching material and the student. The material itself may not have to be altered if appropriate assistive technologies can be utilised. For students in further and...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...think the issue with environmental programmes is that unless they engage and make people want to do something about it, they’re often programmes that are preaching to the converted. I remember one film which I think is important for the general environmental debate and actually the general debate of the role of filmmaking in the environment, which is called Age of...
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Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...think the issue with environmental programmes is that unless they engage and make people want to do something about it, they’re often programmes that are preaching to the converted. I remember one film which I think is important for the general environmental debate and actually the general debate of the role of film making in the environment, which is called Age of...
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How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?

...systems with drugs leaves cancer cells with no way of repairing DNA damage, so they die. Transcript As we’ve written about on the Cancer Research UK blog, this idea forms the basis of an entirely new class of drugs for treating cancer, known as PARP inhibitors. PARP – or poly-ADP ribose polymerase, to give it its full name – is a protein found in all our cells, and...
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Bill Hare - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill Hare - Stories of Change

...thinking in those days?’ Are you happy for all those things? BH: I’m happy! RH: OK. So we’re starting all the interviews with the question, when did you first get interested in energy? BH: I guess in the mid-1980s I got interested in the issues to do with energy and climate actually, I was already became aware as a consequence of a US Department of Energy...
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The Borders of Astrobiology
Science, Maths & Technology

The Borders of Astrobiology

...think we are from showing the space environment humility and respect? Should we be confident/positive about the future of space governance? [Portrait of Andrea Owe]Andrea Owe, environmental philosopher with the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute: The short answer is, quite far. It depends, of course, on who you ask – who is ‘we’? In the end, however, what matters in...
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The Legacy of Nuclear Power, Part 2
Society, Politics & Law

The Legacy of Nuclear Power, Part 2

...think you are making a very strong point at the end of your book when you take a critical, when you are critical of the currently favoured approach to dealing with nuclear waste, which is deep geological disposal and you are kind of advocating a slightly more short-term perspective, as you’ve just said. Andrew Blowers: Well let me say when I wrote the policy, which the...
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SecureDrop
Society, Politics & Law

SecureDrop

...system...[Secure Drop logo] SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower submission system that media organizations can use to securely accept documents from and communicate with anonymous sources. It was originally created by the late Aaron Swartz and is currently managed by Freedom of the Press Foundation. It was initiated by a non-governmental organisation/charity and...
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