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Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes

...Energy companies look at electricity use and so on. So there's a lot of big data already being collected in a lot of different places now. The data in a small city can also come from sensors in the built environment. So these are sensors that can pick up different kinds of information about the urban environment. For example, something in the news right now, sensors can...
Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel
History & The Arts

Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel

...energy. To further confuse the case, then, the story’s victim, Mrs. Inglethorp, has herself just finished taking a strychnine tonic. But she had been taking it for weeks at far too trace a dose to have triggered the convulsions. The police suspect instead that her evening cup of coffee was poisoned. The coffee, of course, was left sitting on a hall table so that almost...
The Science of Fear
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Science of Fear

...energy in your muscles if you run in the wrong direction! • Contents of the stomach/bowel/bladder may be jettisoned. This could distract the attacker and 'lightens the load' the body has to carry in escape. The 'fight or flight' mechanisms listed above were invaluable in primitive times, when hunting prey or escaping from predators, and were essential daily activities;...
An expert’s take on AI
Digital & Computing

An expert’s take on AI

...energy that is consumed by training and using artificial intelligence. There are ethical concerns about the data that goes into the training. Some of it might be copyright and not actually being allowed to be used by by the companies creating artificial intelligence. So there are a number of legal cases underway particularly in the United States about books, movies,...
Can we live harmoniously with wildlife?
Nature & Environment

Can we live harmoniously with wildlife?

...energy in providing training to field staff across the country on how to deal with these situations. While tiger issues are rare, leopard conflicts happen on an almost daily basis across the country. Though wildlife populations are increasing in many areas, perhaps the biggest cause of the perceived ‘increasing human-wildlife conflict’ is people’s changing...
Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...energy, nuclear war, the extinction of the planet. And the UN began to pass resolutions about nuclear weapons, about chemicals that we used to make weapons and energy, and criminologists began to take an interest in these sorts of issues. I mean, we saw in 1983 Professor Richard Harding from Australia published in the ANZ Journal of Criminology a piece about nuclearism...
Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Managing coastal environments
Nature & Environment

Managing coastal environments

...energy and process materials to produce the communities and landscapes that we see in the world around us. In ecology, the term has become associated with a particular approach to the study of the interactions among living organisms, an approach that concentrates on energy and material exchanges. However, it is also used more colloquially to refer to any area or grouping...
Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...energy that might otherwise be put to good use. In teams, a degree of conflict on the journey together might – as you will see in this course – actually help...Difference and challenge in teams: 1.2 The bee colony - Countless worker bees spread out from the hive in search of nectar. Different bees end up at different nectar sources, and on their return, perform...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs