940 search results
Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems
Nature & Environment

Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems

...laws acting around us. (Darwin, 1859/1985, p. 459) So starts the final paragraph of Charles Darwin's famous book The Origin of Species. I have included it here because Darwin sets out beautifully, in one sentence, the complexity of the natural world. First, he introduces us to an ecosystem – ‘an entangled bank’. (I like to think of this as a hedgerow in my home...
View course Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
What is a scientific model?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a scientific model?

...law? ANDREW PONSON: Exactly! We’re trying to give some impression that we haven’t yet packaged up everything about that particular aspect of nature, but we have some working set of ideas that we’re using to create tests that we can then go and compare to reality. ADAM RUTHERFORD: And from a practical point of view, as an astronomer, Carol, how do you model things?...
View audio What is a scientific model?
Audio 5 mins
The Bletchley Park connection
History & The Arts

The Bletchley Park connection

...law. Often, knowledge of their secret lives gives a real insight into their professional achievement. I suspect that we can trace some of Asa Briggs’ faith in the ability of an institution do amazing things back to his Bletchley days. Labour politician and Bletchley alumnus Roy Jenkins was one of the first champions of the UK’s participation in European union: he was...
View article The Bletchley Park connection
Article 5 mins
Human Resource Management and EDI
Money & Business

Human Resource Management and EDI

...Law Review, 43(6), pp. 1241–99. Dobbin, F. and Kalev, A. (2016) ‘Why diversity programs fail and what works better’, Harvard Business Review, 94(7–8), pp. 52–60. Good, L. and Cooper, R. (2016) ‘“But it’s your job to be friendly”: employees coping with and contesting sexual harassment from customers in the service sector’, Gender, Work and Organization...
View course Human Resource Management and EDI
Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...law there saying you can’t do the other MOOCs as well. You’re not banned from doing it, but it could ironically kind of narrow the curriculum down by M having to mean Massive. Dave What I’m really hoping for, sorry George. What I’m really hoping for going forward is we see more and more organisations, like trade organisations, professional organisations, running...
View course Open education
Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
An introduction to energy resources
Nature & Environment

An introduction to energy resources

...laws, others depend on economics and there are also limits posed by sustaining the Earth's environmental conditions on which life depends...Energy resources: An introduction to energy resources: 2 Energy, work, power and efficiency - In everyday speech we often refer colloquially to the powerful politician, the energetic child, the working mother and the efficient...
View course An introduction to energy resources
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Philosophy: the nature of persons
History & The Arts

Philosophy: the nature of persons

...law violates our autonomy is a big question in political philosophy – too big for us to consider here. An example of a different sort are prisoners. Prisoners have freedom of thought, but not freedom of action. Hence, they are autonomous in some ways, but not in others. Another difficult problem emerges in cases in which someone is ‘forced’ to act from the strength...
View course Philosophy: the nature of persons
Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...law and consumer perception’ (WIPO, 2017, p. 9). Their guidance continues: in order to work as a GI, a sign must identify a product as originating in a given place. In addition, the qualities or reputation of the product should be essentially due to the place of origin. Since the qualities depend on the geographical place of production, there is a link between the...
View course Eating for the environment
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs