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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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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
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...systems, looking after the soil and forests you would do a big part of what you needed to do to tackle climate change. So in other words even if you don’t know much about climate change, which shame on you if you don’t know much about climate change, but even if you don’t know much these alternative paths which are cleaner, more efficient, less congested and so on...
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Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...system coupling” – essentially “a human whose nervous system is linked to a computer”. Warwick himself created such a coupling with medical assistance in 2002, embedding a device in his arm which connected to a part of his nervous system so that it could send signals bidirectionally, communicating with his brain and also the internet. In a series of experiments,...
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For some people, staying awake might help fight depression
Health, Sports & Psychology

For some people, staying awake might help fight depression

...system – our internal 24-hour biological clock – are thought to help us resist sleep, with these signals being replaced by sleep-promoting ones at night. Our brain cells work in cycles too, becoming increasingly excitable in response to stimuli during wakefulness, with this excitability dissipating when we sleep. But in people with depression and bipolar disorder,...
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Article 15 mins
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...systems describe the difference between direct and external modulation of a laser describe the difference in structure and performance of step-index multimode, graded-index multimode and single-mode optical fibres draw up a power budget for an optical-fibre communication link and use it to estimate the maximum link distance...Digital communications: 1.1 Uses of optical...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs