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Riches & misery: the consequences of the Atlantic slave trade
History & The Arts

Riches & misery: the consequences of the Atlantic slave trade

...accounts have emphasised the immediate impact, in terms of suffering and deaths, and the human tragedy that this represented. But there were also profound long-term consequences, which were global in scope. To assess these consequences, we need to look at the three corners of the Atlantic’s “triangular trade”. First, what effects did the trade (and the loss of so...
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Article 10 mins
Tubman: The Moses of Her People
History & The Arts

Tubman: The Moses of Her People

...account of her life in 1869. After this, other stalwarts of the Railroad era told of her remarkable exploits, and gradually she came to be cherished as an icon of the battle against slavery. Over thirty years after the Civil War, she was awarded a military pension, and when she died in 1913 she was buried with full military honours. Reverence for Tubman has grown ever...
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How we can all tackle our digital carbon footprints
Nature & Environment

How we can all tackle our digital carbon footprints

...accounted for in just three categories – housing, travel and food. Reducing energy consumption required for housing (eg, heating, electricity and cooling), along with cutting travel in diesel or petrol cars, and eating less meat-based foods, will have a big impact on our individual footprints. But where does the digital carbon footprint fit in with this? When it comes...
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Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision

...accounts properly for the environment. The big, missing thing is that even in the current political conversations in the UK, we’re leading to an election, the environment is not featuring high on the agenda, and accounting for the environment certainly isn’t. So I think we all have a duty to collaborate, to try and overcome that pessimism and sense that we can’t...
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What is the genome made of?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is the genome made of?

...accounts for both its stability and the way it can be replicated – the first two of these three key properties. Click below to view the video. It was in 1953 that James Watson and Francis Crick (Figure 1) working in the UK, deduced and published the three-dimensional structure of DNA. It was the year that might be described as the dawn of molecular biology, for their...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Business ethics
History & The Arts

Business ethics

...accountable for what it’s done. It’s answerable. Nigel: We’ve got the idea then that a group of people can together be morally responsible. In the area of business how does this connect with the idea of the social responsibility of organisations? Alex: So you’re talking about corporate social responsibility, CSR as it’s known. The big buzz word. They talk all...
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Marketing communications as a strategic function
Money & Business

Marketing communications as a strategic function

...account how the source of information in each case has performed against expectations. The resulting insights can lead to some surprises: ‘Often we have found that contacts assumed to be positive were not positive at all. Knowing the types of existing brand contacts will do much to assist the communication planner in developing effective programs, especially in foreign...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...account is taken of the emotional component and how it plays a significant part in the experience of health, illness and dying? When someone is dying, the relationship between the health care professional(s) and the dying person is extremely important, in terms of not only the control of bodily death, but also emotional responses. This is especially the case if the dying...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr