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Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...Institute 1998-2004. He has operated at the interface between research, policy-making and business throughout his career. He is President of the UK Energy Institute. He is also a member of the UK Committee on Climate Change and Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group III for the 6th assessment cycle. He was awarded a CBE for services to sustainable energy in 2013 and an OBE for...
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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?

...Institute – the researchers came at the problem from a different angle. In this case they noticed that certain ovarian tumours had unusually high levels of PolQ, particularly those that also had a faulty homologous recombination toolkit – for example, a missing BRCA1 gene. And when they got rid of PolQ in cells carrying these faults, the cells died. Together, both...
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A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list
Society, Politics & Law

A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list

...institutions and mainstreaming homophobia and anti-Semitism, would be thrilled by Rousseau’s warnings about the “cosmopolitans who go on distant bookish quests for the duties which they disdain to fulfill in their own surroundings.” Pitilessly ostracizing Mexicans and Muslims, Donald Trump may find much philosophical backup in “Émile; or, On Education.”...
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The gut microbiome: balancing the body
Science, Maths & Technology

The gut microbiome: balancing the body

...et al. (2022) found that processed or animal-based foods were associated with increased numbers of opportunistic pathogenic bacteria which reduced microbiota diversity. Conversely, plant-based foods, fish and fermented foods increased the number of healthy bacteria which helped to reduce the number of pathogenic bacteria. Some of the common signs and symptoms of dysbiosis...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...Institute and IC24. This product, basically, it brings mothers closer to their sick or premature babies. It is the ability to have a camera on an incubator, which links to an iPad that the mother receives upon the birth of her baby, where they cannot go down to the special care unit and see their baby for themselves. People interested in this product is anybody who has...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The psychology of cybercrime
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of cybercrime

...et al., 2014), or explanations of intentions such as being ideological, non-ideological, religion driven, grief driven, fun driven, or political (Fichman & Sanfilippo, 2016). However, as Coles and West (2016) argued, beyond the broadness of the term ‘troll’ and the many subtypes, it is important to look at the term as having variable meanings, intentions, and varied...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...institutional factors played a decisive role in shaping the very nature of French art during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The huge history paintings on display today in the Daru and Mollien rooms would not have come into existence without the state as actual patron or potential buyer: they are mostly too large to go anywhere but a museum or other public...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...institutions, notably the state, but also other powerful institutions including the media. Many of these newer criminological perspectives noted how the state and other institutions focus attention on less powerful groups, such as certain neighbourhoods, social classes and age groups, and brought them into the criminal justice system. It was argued that states and others...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs