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Safer battery could spark investment in renewables
Nature & Environment

Safer battery could spark investment in renewables

...Climate News Network...[Some solar panels and a personal wind turbine] High-capacity batteries will make wind and solar power into more viable user generated energy sources. Researchers have developed a battery that uses a common food additive to enable abundant solar and wind power to be stored cheaply and safely in homes and offices. The dream of a home battery –...
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What makes near-future Sci-Fi especially scary?
History & The Arts

What makes near-future Sci-Fi especially scary?

...changes, such as the artificially intelligent operating system Samantha (voiced by Scarlett Johansson) in the film Her, or the thought-controlled contact lenses that appear in various forms in episodes of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror. These near-future fictions offer prescient alternatives to other science fiction set in the far future. Consider, for example, the...
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Learn 40 hand signals used by the Aboriginal people of the Western Australian Desert
Languages

Learn 40 hand signals used by the Aboriginal people of the Western Australian Desert

...climate, the Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia can be a challenging place to live. For those carving out a life in this sparsely populated region, the vast distances of Australia's second largest desert can also prove to be challenging for those wanting to communicate with neighbors. Hand signs have traditionally served as a way of communicating for the Aboriginal...
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Studying Darwin
Nature & Environment

Studying Darwin

...Changing climate: island life in a volatile world What impact will global warming really have? This course examines the potential problems faced by the people of the Pacific Island of Tuvalu as a result of rising sea levels. Where would you go if your island is only a few feet above sea level? Who would you blame?...Studying Darwin: 3 Studying mammals - A winning design...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Beaghmore Stone Circle
OpenLearn Ireland

Beaghmore Stone Circle

...climate became a little wetter and a little cooler and the peat bog began to grow. And bit by bit the land just became unusable and people had to move away, and all of the remains of the farms and the tombs that had existed in the landscape became covered in peat. Video with transcript Transcript DARRYL GRIMASON: Claire, what are these bamboos actually telling us here?...
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Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...climates, the temperature can change abruptly and often unpredictably. In fact, both the localities featured on Figure 1 are on coasts, where the sea keeps the climate much more equable. Further inland, fluctuations in temperature are even greater. Polar organisms are thus adapted both to the extreme cold and to abrupt fluctuations in temperature. The Arctic Circle (66°...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Wild Weather Kitchen Experiments: Floods
Science, Maths & Technology

Wild Weather Kitchen Experiments: Floods

...climate, but human activity modifying drainage or irrigation can have a strong influence locally. Excess rainfall in a river catchment area is one common cause of flooding. Rivers have always flooded, but increased development in the catchment area can exacerbate the problem. This video demonstrates some of the issues in building on flood plains and in catchment areas,...
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History offers Britain an important lesson on shutting down immigration
Society, Politics & Law

History offers Britain an important lesson on shutting down immigration

...climate of frustration and debate about Britain’s changing position in the world. In the 1960s, Britain was coming to terms with its loss of colonial power and its changing place in the Modern Commonwealth. The 1960s saw a move from a Commonwealth-focused Britain to one which looked more towards Europe. Now we are seeing a Britain that is again changing its position...
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