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Microbes – friend or foe?
Nature & Environment

Microbes – friend or foe?

...human waste. Without microbes, we would have no beer, no yoghurt, no coffee. That's quite impressive for something too small to see. This free course, Microbes friend or foe? sheds some light on them...Microbes often get a bad name. Whilst some of them do cause disease, others play vital roles in recycling nutrients in the soil to enable plants to grow, and in breaking...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
About Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

About Stories of Change

...Humanities Research Council. The project is seeking to support a more dynamic and diverse public debate about transitions in energy systems in the context of the cross-party commitments to decarbonise the UK economy. The team will work with the interviews to write papers and design teaching materials. They will also be presented in ways that connect them all on the...
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Article 5 mins
Environment: habitat and conservation
Nature & Environment

Environment: habitat and conservation

...humans alike, we are today more vulnerable than ever. The 11 video tracks on this album address the complexities of environmental change, focusing on the Blackwater Water Estuary in Essex where a coastal retreat scheme is in operation, managed biodiversity at Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire, and the search for sustainable forms of development along the River Severn. This...
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Audio 1 hr 17 mins
World Social Work Day
Health, Sports & Psychology

World Social Work Day

...resources including interactives and free courses...[world social work day poster] 15th March is World Social Work Day, a day that gives those in the profession (and students) an opportunity to express international solidarity and send consistent messages to governments, regional bodies and the community. In 2016 the theme is ‘Promoting the Dignity and Worth of...
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Article 5 mins
Capacities for managing development
Money & Business

Capacities for managing development

...resources. Planning for the forest's future How the communities within Himachel Pradesh have decided to manage their natural resources. The issues and conflicts that arose, and how they were dealt with. The benefits of co-operation Looking at how different communities are working together to benefit each other, in the present and in the future. Abriachan Forest Trust The...
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Audio 1 hr 35 mins
Representations of hell in Christian art
History & The Arts

Representations of hell in Christian art

...human mind for millennia. Reflecting many religions and cultures over the plethora of centuries that humanity has persevered, it has multiple names and descriptions. Nevertheless, it has common underlining characteristics: it is a dark, unbearably hot, smelly and eerie place, certainly not a place one would choose to reside forever. ‘Hell was often designated with the...
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Article 10 mins
Under the covers: The emerging critical sleep studies
History & The Arts

Under the covers: The emerging critical sleep studies

...humanities. To do this, Greaney formulates two suggestions: the first focuses on the “ongoing territorial dispute between art and science over the nature of sleep”. This debate revolves around questions such as how to study sleep from the perspectives of different disciplines, for example, which language to use to talk about sleep – poetic, technocratic, machinic?...
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Article 10 mins
The Orlando killings were "a queerphobic attack"
Society, Politics & Law

The Orlando killings were "a queerphobic attack"

...human” lives. Claiming, like many have been doing, that those were, first and foremost, “human” lives and only then accidentally queer, is yet another example of the complexities of LGBTQIA+ politics in the West. We are living through a time when the transgender homicide rate has hit an historic high in the US, when more than 1,700 murders of transgendered...
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Video 5 mins