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The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable
Nature & Environment

The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable

...energy-intensive than hunting for seals and offers the bears are more secure and abundant food source. The human response in this story is entirely predictable in sending in ‘experts’ to drive the bears away, or worse cull them. Despite ecologists’ warnings that polar bears will be pushed to extinction by climate change, all the world seems to be able to do is to...
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Article 15 mins
Volunteering in the community
Education & Development

Volunteering in the community

...energy for the benefit of your community, over and above any other paid employment you may have. Below, be inspired by five colleagues who are working in, and serving, their communities for the common good. Emily - Magistrate [Emily] “The more people in the community are represented, the better decisions are made.” Before becoming a magistrate, Emily had never been a...
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Article 5 mins
Flying Fatigued: Fatigue in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Flying Fatigued: Fatigue in Aviation

...energy to complete daily or complex tasks (Fulghum Bruce, 2023). ICAO defines fatigue as: “A physiological state of reduced mental or physical performance capability resulting from sleep loss, extended wakefulness, circadian phase, and/or workload (mental and/or physical activity) that can impair a person’s alertness and ability to adequately perform safety-related...
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Article 5 mins
First steps towards embedding sustainability in learning design
Education & Development

First steps towards embedding sustainability in learning design

...energy, for your benefit as well as the environment’s. Many existing sustainability resources already align with both UNESCO competencies and IDG dimensions. Using these as lenses to review materials through can help make sustainability more explicit without requiring major redesign. Open Educational Resources (OERs) are one way to do this. They are ‘digitised...
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Article 5 mins
Understanding your sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...energy resources and natural resources. This course will use it to mean all of these in line with the definition provided by Oxford Dictionaries, that is a ‘stock or supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively’ (Oxford Dictionaries, 2021). These can differentiated further between...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...energy in the stand by mode. Energy consumption contributes to air and water pollution. We advise to [sic] switch off your TV overnight instead of leaving it on stand by. You save energy and the picture tube is demagnetised which maintains good picture quality. Discussion To examine this question we need to look at the way in which the text is put together. First of all,...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...energy. Being able to produce clear, readable, logical and well-argued pieces of writing is important in both university and in your working life. Precise & concise [Sketch of Blaise Pascal]Figure 7 Blaise Pascal (1623–1622)Show descriptionBlack and white portrait of Blaise Pascal. Blaise Pascal was a seventeenth-century mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher...
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Article 5 mins
Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...energy (to change the temperature) if the desired and current temperatures are different. From general knowledge, you should be able to work out that if any of these activities is missing, then the system cannot operate as required. The model allows for both heating and cooling, and only specifies that a source of energy is needed to fulfil its activities. This type of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs