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Is Donald Trump ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon?
Nature & Environment

Is Donald Trump ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon?

...System and other regulations. In April 2016, BSEE issued a new well control rule that required standards for design operation and testing of blowout preventers, real-time monitoring and safe drilling pressure margins. Prior to the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the oil industry had effectively blocked adoption of such regulations for years. About-face under Trump President...
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Article 5 mins
Birth of the Welfare State
History & The Arts

Birth of the Welfare State

...system of compulsory insurance. Every worker, by contributing to a scheme of national insurance deducted through the weekly or monthly pay packet, would be helping to build up a fund that would pay out weekly benefits to those who were sick or unemployed or who suffered industrial injury. The scheme would pay pensions at the end of a working life to employees and the...
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Article 10 mins
Five ways in which COVID-19 has impacted on progress in global health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways in which COVID-19 has impacted on progress in global health

...systems across the world were not functioning very well for those with limited financial means prior to COVID-19, due to ‘out of pocket expenditure’ (payments made by individuals for the use of health care) especially among poor people and an overall lack of hospital beds (especially intensive care beds). Health infrastructure globally has been completely overwhelmed,...
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Article 15 mins
Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?
Science, Maths & Technology

Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?

...systems enabling individuals to transcend territorial boundaries and wield digital influence outside of the nation state. Everpresent personas will disrupt domestic political orders transforming the Earth. Justin Zobel Head, Department of Computing & Information Systems, University of Melbourne Interfaces will have become seamless by 2045 and are accessed continuously...
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Building Science and Technology Diplomacy Skills through CARE–KNOW–DO
Education & Development

Building Science and Technology Diplomacy Skills through CARE–KNOW–DO

...systems thinking, ethical reasoning, cross-cultural communication, and policy awareness. Whether they are collaborating on sustainability projects, debating the ethics of AI, or simulating international negotiations on climate or digital rights, students practise the competencies that underpin both science and technology diplomacy. This article explores why science and...
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Leadership challenges in turbulent times
Money & Business

Leadership challenges in turbulent times

...system. So that might be large-scale institutions in many parts of the world called orphanages but very rarely orphans are held in them. Or the increasing development of foster care and adoption, although that’s very small in many countries. Where the vast majority of children go is in what we call kinship care or extended family. So, this is where the grandmothers and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...systems. The process of globalisation has disseminated free market capitalist orthodoxy – generally allied to democratic systems of government – throughout the world. With these processes has come growth in the environmental and social movements. Conventions on climate change, biodiversity and trade agreements, shaped by, among others, global rather than national...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
In the night sky: Orion
Science, Maths & Technology

In the night sky: Orion

...system. Finally you’ll think about the Milky Way, the galaxy of which our solar system is but one small part, and consider the history of the universe from the Big Bang to the present. Requirements You do not need a professional telescope for this course, but you may find at least a pair of binoculars extremely useful. No prior experience of the subject is required....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs