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How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...think it is impossible,” he says, adding that severely degraded systems could still surprise with natural recovery if managed well. “Number two, don’t come in with a solution in the back of your head before you know what’s going on in the ground.” Pre-existing underground conditions are important. Cutting-edge technologies such as microfertilisation, in which...
On a Wing and a Prayer: A case study
Society, Politics & Law

On a Wing and a Prayer: A case study

...think is interesting because you are looking at different journeys and how these different journeys run parallel - the journey to the tunnel, the journey through the legal system, and also the journeys along the River Thames. There are so many different layers and relationships, ways in which the relation of the subject to the law, and the relationship of the subject to...
We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?
Science, Maths & Technology

We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?

...think of as robots: autonomous machines that can sense their surroundings, respond, move, do things and, above all, interact with us humans. We all recognise R2-D2, WALL-E and scores of their lesser-known kin. The unnerving thing is that their nonfictional counterparts are extremely close at hand. Some press stories are exotic – those about ‘sexbots’ being among the...
Business operations
Science, Maths & Technology

Business operations

...systems Fuller's brewery: Management The day to day management of the brewery and the challenges it presents Introducing the case studies The importance of operations management to business and how the principals remain the same regardless of the business involved Summing up the case studies The importance of good operations managers in all industries and services Vue:...
Patterns of Life
Science, Maths & Technology

Patterns of Life

...systems, leading him to declare long term weather forecasting is utterly impossible. Alan Turing and Morphogenesis What makes tigers striped and cheetahs spotty? World War II code-breaker and father of computing, Alan Turing, has a simple explanation… Warren Weaver and Complexity Theory In 1948, Warren Weaver identified what he called complex systems. These are systems...
How COVID-19 challenges our notion of a good death
Health, Sports & Psychology

How COVID-19 challenges our notion of a good death

...think their deaths should reflect a notion of their individuality. But there are certain cultural scripts for how we societally evaluate some deaths as being relatively good, and these can vary between cultures. And COVID-19 is challenging a lot of those scripts, especially in countries like the UK and the USA. [stages of live vector] Firstly, a timely death is often part...
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...System 1 and System 2 thinking: System 1 operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control System 2 allocates attention to the effortful mental activities that demand it, including complex computations (Kahneman, 2011, pp.20–21) Figure 4 Daniel Kahneman System 1, in other words, is your intuition at work.......
My career goal: digital
Science, Maths & Technology

My career goal: digital

...systems critically and effectively. The range of free courses below give you some grounding knowledge in these areas. Development and coding Computing code is the building blocks of software systems and websites. There is an increasing demand for workers skilled in this area to design and develop software systems. The free courses below look at some of these finer skills....