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Bill Hare - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill Hare - Stories of Change

...Institute for Climate Impacts Research RH: This interview is for some documentaries I’m doing for the BBC on the radio and also some other radio pieces and also for a bank of interviews to act as a historical reference, so when people look back, historians look back from 20 years’ ago they’ll say, ‘What were they thinking in those days?’ Are you happy for all...
Does prison work?
Society, Politics & Law

Does prison work?

...Institute of Criminology, Cambridge; Tim Newell Governor of Grendon Open prison; Eric Cullen head of Psychology at Grendon Prison; David Wilson head of operational training for the Prison Service. Activity 1 After listening to the audio programme bear in mind the following questions: How has the programme added to your knowledge of the prison system? What do you now think...
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Law and change: Scottish legal heroes Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Law and change: Scottish legal heroes

...institutions have effected change. You explore how law has been used to respond to developments in society and whether it should influence them. You consider how words and concepts such as principled, conscience, duty, justice, rights and fairness are often associated with law and their relevance in Scotland today...This free course, Law and change: Scottish legal heroes,...
The New Union Flag project: from an object of agitation to a space for communication
Society, Politics & Law

The New Union Flag project: from an object of agitation to a space for communication

...institution, and I would like to see it, in the words of Jacques Rancière, as an object of dissensus. Nonetheless, looking at the reaction of migrants and refugees, who participated in various ways in the project over the last two years, I do acknowledge that seeing traditional textile designs from their cultures woven into the UK’s flag, has had an empowering effect....
Throwing light on research by South & Central American scientists
Science, Maths & Technology

Throwing light on research by South & Central American scientists

...institutions experience. In fact, in the last decade, there have been substantial improvements in investigative capacities and indicators in the majority of countries in the region. Almost all of Latin America has increased its scientific production year after year. Brazil, for example, leads the region in the raw numbers, both in the size of its budget dedicated to...
Are robots about to take jobs from the poor?
Science, Maths & Technology

Are robots about to take jobs from the poor?

...Institute of Development Studies (IDS), the World Wide Web Foundation and the UK innovation foundation Nesta - fret about the effects of automation on the developing world. They fear that poor countries will find an abrupt closure of the traditional path to prosperity: export-led manufacturing. This “premature deindustrialisation”, as the Summit organisers called it,...
Hallowain't III: Woodfrogs
Nature & Environment

Hallowain't III: Woodfrogs

...Institute of Arctic Biology which discovered the little critters' approach to staying alive in a hostile climate: To see how these frogs were surviving the winter in the extreme Alaskan environment, the researchers used super glue to attach small radio transmitters about the size of a nickel to the backs of 16 frogs over two years. The radio transmitters allowed the...
The German language zone
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The German language zone

...institution promoting tourism in Germany and runs this site. This page is about the Berliner Mauerweg, a hiking and cycling trail along the former wall around West Berlin. Download the Spaces:1 tasks and ideas pdf Spaces:2 Der Weltstadtplatz Tagesspiegel.de is the online edition of the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, a daily published in Berlin. Here, you can read an article...