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Global diets
Health, Sports & Psychology

Global diets

As the range of different restaurants serving different culture's cuisines suggests, the world does not approach each food stuff with a single mind. Discover how different foods are approached differently in different countries with our global diet map...If you'd prefer to read the information in a standard webpage, you can choose to see Global diets: Just the facts.
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David Bowie and science fiction
History & The Arts

David Bowie and science fiction

...World’ and ‘Life On Mars?’ He is a key figure in the relationship between science fiction and pop music, most obviously for two pieces of work. First is his 1969 single ‘Space Oddity’, a response both to Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the US Apollo programme, which reached its climax in July 1969 with the Apollo 11 landings on the...
Past-Time Lover: Amelia Earhart
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Amelia Earhart

...world has enthralled me! I spent much of my childhood exploring, climbing trees, hunting vermin and investigating the world with my younger sister Pidge. My first exhilarating experience of flight was when I burst out of the crushed box that remained of my broken sled, which had flown from the ramp I had built from my tool shed as a child. After a few back-and-forths we...
Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist
Science, Maths & Technology

Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist

...world affect his scientific theories? And how widespread is his influence today? This album looks at Darwin's rich and complex legacy. Ruth Padel, one of his direct descendants, offers a series of unique insights into Darwin the man, through recollections of childhood conversations with her grandmother, readings from family letters and her own cycle of biographical poems....
Blockchain in Education
Digital & Computing

Blockchain in Education

...world of finance. Will education see similar changes? Read this article by Professor John Domingue and Doctor Alexander Mikroyannidis to start exploring the possibilities of blockchain in education...The challenges of traditional education models The centralised education model of the present is no longer sustainable: learning happens increasingly outside the...
Signposts for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Signposts for Work

...World You may have heard the term ‘VUCA’ (or VUCA World), which stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, and originated to describe complex military and security contexts. This is now used to illustrate the unpredictable modern business world, where organisations no longer operate in a steady, unchanging local environment but are subject to new...
How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...world. Restoration efforts in China, Zambia and other countries seek to reverse this trend...[Tongwei County] Tongwei County, part of the Loess Plateau in China Around 3,000 years ago, farmers settled on the fertile Loess Plateau in western China, a region about the size of France. By the 7th century, the rich soils were feeding about one quarter of the Chinese...
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...world. My hope is, through interacting with the unit and asking yourself questions about your experiences, you will discover at least some of these characteristic ways of seeing the world. If you have previously studied Systems courses, you will already have experienced forms of systems thinking and perhaps ‘caught’ it in some way. You may even have developed your own...