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Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...analysis of the modern airport. Using a lively mixture of videos, interactive exercises and readings, the course explores how the social world of the airport is made and maintained. In particular, it investigates how the processes that constitute this world - queuing, check in, security clearance, moving around and so on - depend on relations between people and material...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Climate change is triple risk to Europe
Nature & Environment

Climate change is triple risk to Europe

...data from 4,200 river-measuring stations in 38 European nations across a 50-year timespan. They also collected information on soil moisture, rain and snowfall and temperature. In western Europe, 50% of the stations recorded a shift towards earlier floods – up to 15 days earlier – and in northeastern Europe, half of all hydrometric stations recorded an advance in the...
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Article 5 mins
Soil could save Earth from overheating
Nature & Environment

Soil could save Earth from overheating

...Data availability “Too long they have been overlooked as a means to tackle climate change. Too often have problems of accurate measurement and reporting stymied progress towards climate-smart soil management. “With the surge in availability of big data on soils around the world, alongside rapid improvements in understanding and modelling, the time has come for this...
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Article 10 mins
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...analysis, can be applied to assess and weigh the net benefits of such intervention...The economics of flood insurance: Learning outcomes - After studying this course you should be able to: begin to understand and confidently use some economic concepts and terminology break down the issue of flood risk into some essential elements and apply appropriate economic theory and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
How you can be more secure than the President
Digital & Computing

How you can be more secure than the President

...data files and security updates’ if they are not already selected. Unlike Microsoft, Apple does not have a regular schedule for delivering updates. On occasion, Apple has forced security updates on machines to fix the most serious problems. These updates are entirely automated and do not require restarting your machine. Apple iOS (iPhone and iPad) Updates for Apple’s...
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Article 5 mins
Trump - an appeal for enlightenment
Society, Politics & Law

Trump - an appeal for enlightenment

...data driven communication by social media companies. These target Facebook users based on psychological profiling from Facebook. Data driven communication ensures that political messages are targeted to the people most likely to be influenced by them. It is through this process that social media not only gave a voice to the frustrations of a downtrodden US population but...
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Article 10 mins
Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?
Nature & Environment

Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?

...data for species-rich floodplain meadows. Missed hay cuts mean rising soil nutrients and falling botanical diversity. [hay in a field.] But is later-cut hay really of lower nutritional value? And is the delay really critical for long term conservation goals? There is a need for more data about how the nutritional content of hay changes during the growing season between...
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Article 10 mins
Tracing your family history
History & The Arts

Tracing your family history

...data, and the best way to keep track of where you are is to organise it in a highly visual fashion by compiling a family tree. This is a diagram that shows how all your family members are related to one another - essentially, it's a map of your roots. Start with yourself; if you are married, place your partner's name alongside yours and connect them with the symbol '=' or...
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Article 10 mins