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What is Blockchain?
Digital & Computing

What is Blockchain?

...system it is very open. In addition to the source code being openly available, a key feature of blockchains is that in principle every user has their own copy of the entire blockchain. In fact, there is no central or master copy, simply the multiple copies held by the volunteers in the user community. Volunteers are rewarded for their effort through a number of...
Social Science
Society, Politics & Law

Social Science

...systems of belief. Complementary approaches Comparing social and natural sciences, the need for both perspectives for full understanding. Influence of Social Science The impact the study of social science has had since the 19th century. Knowledge - what is it? The relative status of different kinds of knowledge, scientific knowledge and its supposed objectivity. The...
Audio 1 hr 24 mins
Valuing death at home: making preparations
Health, Sports & Psychology

Valuing death at home: making preparations

...thinking about those similarities, as my daughter and I prepared for the birth of my granddaughter. We read the book Your Baby, Your Birth: the process of birth, how the body prepares, how to make plans and cope when those plans need to change. Where, I wonder, is a book about Your Death? [An elderly woman with a cup sitting outdoors on a terrace on a sunny day in...
Sut y gallaf ymdopi â straen arholiadau?
Education & Development

Sut y gallaf ymdopi â straen arholiadau?

...system nerfol awtonomig yn dechrau gweithio. Mae hyn yn beth da i ddechrau, gan ei fod yn actifadu'r system hon sy'n rhyddhau'r adrenalin niwrogemegol - ac mae hyn yn eich ysgogi i fynd ati a chanolbwyntio ar eich gwaith. Fodd bynnag, mae'r broblem yn dechrau pan fydd cyfnodau o straen yn ymestyn. Pan fydd hyn yn digwydd, bydd y rhan sympathetig yn gweithio'n barhaol, gan...
Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...think about the wider, systemic factors that affect the foods that parents and children buy and eat. In this video you will hear Anna Taylor talk about the work of the UK-based Food Foundation, an organisation that aims to change people’s ability to eat healthily through policy and building public understanding about how the food we eat is affected by entire food...
Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...think about what’s happening upstream. Water is gathered across a large area, rivulets spring up in very different places and meander along; they do their own thing for a while before converging. Where they meet there can be turbulence. Upstream, there will be sections of white-water, rapids and waterfalls. As with teams, the downstream observer doesn’t witness the...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...thinking intellectual challenge – thinking through complex organisational problems and developing strategies to support these working with smart people – because while the work is important to the company, you get to work with the smartest people (internally and externally) creativity – you are continually having to come up with new and innovative ways of doing...
Flowery meadows and high tech surveying equipment
Nature & Environment

Flowery meadows and high tech surveying equipment

...system, its not as accurate as the old system but can usually position the quadrats to within 5cm of where they should be which is fine and is usually significantly quicker as you don’t have to hunt for the fixed points and there is no delicate equipment to carefully set up on a heavy tripod. The gps also gives the locations in latitude/longitude or ordinance survey...