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COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit
Nature & Environment

COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant who hosted the 2023 climate change summit

...business model: extracting oil. Adnoc, along with the wider oil and gas industry, has invested in carbon sequestration and making hydrogen fuel from the byproducts of oil extraction. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), such measures, even if fully implemented, will only have a small impact on greenhouse gas emissions. The UAE was the first...
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Article 10 mins
A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list
Society, Politics & Law

A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list

...busy purging pro-E.U. “liberal élites” from national institutions and mainstreaming homophobia and anti-Semitism, would be thrilled by Rousseau’s warnings about the “cosmopolitans who go on distant bookish quests for the duties which they disdain to fulfill in their own surroundings.” Pitilessly ostracizing Mexicans and Muslims, Donald Trump may find much...
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Article 5 mins
A brief history of Harlem
Society, Politics & Law

A brief history of Harlem

...businesses. After being associated for much of the twentieth century with crime and poverty, it is now experiencing social and economic gentrification. As a settlement, it traces its routes back to the early Dutch pioneers - it's named for a Dutch city - and became part of the city of New York in 1873, after its value as an independent agricultural centre had declined....
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Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...business know who the best weaver is. It’s like a driver who knows who the best driver is. That is why the people in this village say that I am the best even though I do not call myself that. Catherine (VO) Akwasi Akwaboah is weaving the most prestigious Kente cloth, known as Adwenisi - Adweniso. It means all design motifs are used up and requires consummate skill. Who...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Leadership challenges in turbulent times
Money & Business

Leadership challenges in turbulent times

...business, public sphere, civil society – you need to understand and adapt to the changing world that brings many challenges. Successful leadership requires you to reconsider what it means to lead in turbulent and precarious times. In this short course you will have the opportunity to understand and explain how leadership changes in accordance to the needs of turbulent...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...business environment outline the skills and contexts involved in translating and interpreting professions...Exploring languages and cultures: 1 Intercultural encounters - An intercultural encounter takes place when you become aware that you are interacting with a member of a different community whose ways of thinking are quite distinct from your own. These experiences...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Ads of our time – are teens susceptible to food ads in digital media?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ads of our time – are teens susceptible to food ads in digital media?

...money, and spend more time away from their families. In many countries across Europe they use ‘junk’ food as a way of expressing a teen identity separate from the adult world of healthy eating advice. Of course, these factors don’t apply to all teens – who vary just as adults do. Some focus on health, or ‘clean eating’, and some certainly make sensible choices...
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Dementia Awareness: What is dementia, and how can we reduce the risk?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dementia Awareness: What is dementia, and how can we reduce the risk?

...money, particularly in shops Changes in personality or mood Depression Can I reduce the risk of getting dementia? About a fifth of people think it's impossible to reduce their risk of dementia. However, there is a vast amount of evidence showing seven simple lifestyle choices that can help prevent the onset of dementia. Regular exercise - just 30 minutes of walking,...
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Article 20 mins