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OpenMinds: Why visit Mars and what we might find there?
Miscellaneous

OpenMinds: Why visit Mars and what we might find there?

...climate, and their potential impact on future Mars lander missions, will look at the environment on Mars. She will discuss surface conditions and temperatures, gravity, surface temperatures, and even look at the weather forecast on Mars. She will go on to look at the landers and rovers that have recently been on the surface of Mars: Phoenix, Spirit, Opportunity and...
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Article 5 mins
Care for the elderly
Money & Business

Care for the elderly

...climate of austerity this once sacred duty seems increasingly hard to guarantee. Added to this are emerging concerns of how we can support not just those who are retired but also those looking after them. This has presented new opportunities and challenges for age-old task of caring for our elders – the topic of this week’s episodes. One of the main contemporary...
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Article 5 mins
Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents

...change. Making such assessments requires both knowledge and particular skills. This includes knowledge of the impact of parental substance misuse on the family on parenting capacity and the requisite skills and approaches required to explore this. It is also important to gain access to the wishes and experiences of the children concerned and to understand the parents’...
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Video 10 mins
Participatory development in action
Society, Politics & Law

Participatory development in action

...changes engineered by development agencies can start to show a way out of poverty. Meanwhile, Tanzanian rural schoolchildren are instrumental in bringing about positive long-term change within their communities. However, development in practice is very complex and sometimes controversial. The audio tracks delve into the dilemma of how to incorporate the value systems of...
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Audio 1 hr 36 mins
World in transition: Managing Resources
Nature & Environment

World in transition: Managing Resources

...changes engineered by development agencies can start to show a way out of poverty. Meanwhile, Tanzanian rural schoolchildren are instrumental in bringing about positive long-term change within their communities. However, development in practice is very complex and sometimes controversial. The audio tracks delve into the dilemma of how to deal with the different values...
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Audio 1 hr 35 mins
Innovation Design: Sustainable Communities
Science, Maths & Technology

Innovation Design: Sustainable Communities

...changes to the way you live now. This album looks at various small scale initiatives which show that living sustainably may not be as unpalatable as you might imagine. Bedzed, Findhorn, Hockerton, Samsoe Island; these are all decentralised communities at the forefront of a major social and technological experiment. In our world of finite resources and massive...
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Audio 55 mins
Causal loop diagrams
Science, Maths & Technology

Causal loop diagrams

...change. ‘B’ or ‘R’ denoting balancing or reinforcing feedback loops, respectively. Conventions The words or phrases represent variables. The arrows represent links between the variables, with the assumption that when variable A changes, variable B changes. A relationship where a change in A leads to a change in B in the same direction is denoted by an ‘s’...
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Video 10 mins
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...changes in temperature on a variety of objects and looks at the problem of how to boil water...Engineering is about extending the horizons of society by solving technical problems, ranging from the meeting of basic human needs for food and shelter to the generation of wealth by trade. This free course, Engineering: The challenge of temperature, looks at the impact of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs