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About Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

About Stories of Change

...public and political conversations about energy by looking in a fresh way at its past, present and future. These interviews have been recorded by the BBC’s Environment Analyst Roger Harrabin to capture the thinking of leading players in climate change and energy debates at a critical moment in the global conversation. Roger is one of the leading specialist environment...
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Stress and anxiety in the digital age: the dark side of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stress and anxiety in the digital age: the dark side of technology

...health and community qualification. Technology is everywhere, and mobile phones have become an essential part of everyday life. According to Ofcom’s 2017 figures, 94% of adults in the UK own a mobile phone; and over three-quarters of those are smartphones. And while mobile phones were originally designed to facilitate phone calls on the go, Deloitte’s mobile consumer...
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WhatDoTheyKnow
Society, Politics & Law

WhatDoTheyKnow

...public sector...[http://hackforchange.org/] “[In the UK] [Y]ou have the right to request information from any publicly-funded body, and get answers. WhatDoTheyKnow helps you make a Freedom of Information request. It also publishes all requests online." It was initiated by non-governmental organisation/charity and encourages people to participate through an online...
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Stress Awareness Collection
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stress Awareness Collection

...public awareness about both the causes and cures for stress. And National Stress Awareness Day is the first Wednesday of November. We've put together some of our top FREE related wellbeing tips, courses and and other learning resources to support and help any time you need them...April is National Stress Awareness Month in the UK so we've curated some of our top content...
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Has media literacy become self-destructive?
Education & Development

Has media literacy become self-destructive?

...publications, and experts with advanced degrees are all highly trustworthy. Think about how this might play out in communities where the “liberal media” is viewed with disdain as an untrustworthy source of information…or in those where science is seen as contradicting the knowledge of religious people…or where degrees are viewed as a weapon of the elite to justify...
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Methods in Motion: Developing psychosocially informed self-help on gender
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Developing psychosocially informed self-help on gender

...health struggles are related to gender roles and norms, and gender inequalities continue to have a marked impact on people’s lives. Considering the self-help and pop psychology books on gender that do exist and help us to make sense of this, these overwhelmingly present gender as binary and fixed from birth. Differences between men and women are seen as normal and...
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Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?
Education & Development

Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?

...publication and which became a seminal work, still discussed and debated fifty years later. Snow’s thesis concerned the ‘gulf of mutual incomprehension ’ (Snow, 1965) between those who followed the sciences and those who saw the arts and humanities as their natural home. Each ‘sect’ saw their own disciplines as being superior in their contribution to humanity...
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Introduction to the Amazon System
Nature & Environment

Introduction to the Amazon System

...public services and severe health problems. On the other hand, a small number of elite individuals and their associated corporations have significantly benefited from the exploitation of the Amazon’s natural resources. The economic transformation of the Amazon based on the conversion and degradation of its natural ecosystem – its forests – is gaining momentum (see...
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