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SMEs and Net Zero – challenges and opportunities
Money & Business

SMEs and Net Zero – challenges and opportunities

...everyday practices and their longer-term direction. SMEs often (though not always) lack the skills, expertise, time and motivation to reduce their environmental impact. They are also difficult to regulate and it’s not easy to reach them via alternative policy interventions, such as skills training and education. Given these challenges, you won’t be surprised to...
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Veganuary: can it make a positive difference?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Veganuary: can it make a positive difference?

...everyday life. Beyond Veganuary? If Veganuary and veganism as a whole continue their impressive growth in 2025 and beyond, Bryant argues that we may soon approach a tipping point where veganism is widespread enough to ‘catch on’. However, there are still significant obstacles to overcome. The spectacular success of Veganuary is inspiring but increases in availability...
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What are the challenges and opportunities of urban artificial intelligence and robotics?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are the challenges and opportunities of urban artificial intelligence and robotics?

...everyday life in our towns and cities. Indeed, cities of multiple intelligences which include both artificial and human ones have arrived...The recent AI Safety Summit and press coverage suggest we need to think carefully about these new urban technologies. On one hand, the benefits of these new automated technologies such as driverless cars and delivery robots may be...
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How should Rwanda remember the genocide?
History & The Arts

How should Rwanda remember the genocide?

...everyday life. These spaces would bring together survivors, perpetrators, returnees, and ordinary citizens. There is also a great desire for knowledge about how to use these memories to seek justice, validation, and promote coexistence, especially for future generations. What we learnt I interviewed genocide survivors, former perpetrators and ordinary citizens who were...
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Introduction to Spanish
Languages

Introduction to Spanish

...English, like ‘to speak’. To conjugate a verb in Spanish, that is to form the right form, the adequate form in the sentence, you need to remove the - ar, - er or - ir ending from the infinitive. What is left is called the stem, which does not change in the vast majority of Spanish verbs. The stem serves as the base to which we add endings. There is a different ending...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...English regions (59.9%) and the South-East the smallest pro-Brexit majority (51.8%). Every other English region, plus Wales, recorded solid pro-Brexit majorities. Only Scotland (62%), Northern Ireland (55.8%), and a few English and Welsh sub-regions (including South Cambridgeshire and St Albans) and several big cities (including Bristol, Cardiff, Manchester, Liverpool and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences
Science, Maths & Technology

Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences

...everyday life. Personally I would associate maths with wonder, awe and perhaps just a little terror. So when was the last time you unknowingly borrowed the work of a mathematician in your everyday life? If you are reading this article then you are at the computer: designed and programmed by mathematicians. Perhaps you like the cinema. The largest employer of...
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Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds
Society, Politics & Law

Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds

...everyday risks of human presence. The seeds in the seed vault are stored in black box conditions much like a bank vault. The seed bank provides the infrastructure but neither it, nor the Norwegian government, is allowed to access the seeds themselves. They remain the property of the depositing country. For all of its short history, the direction of travel of plant genetic...
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