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Can landfills be used to improve biodiversity?
Nature & Environment

Can landfills be used to improve biodiversity?

...World Wildlife Fund for Nature (2026), ‘From the air we breathe, to the food we eat, nature is the backbone of life on our planet.’ However, with many species under threat of extinction globally, the loss of biodiversity has consequences for our food security, ecosystem functions and human wellbeing. In the UK, it is estimated that there has been a 19% decline in...
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Article 5 mins
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...world of the airport is made and maintained. In particular, it investigates how the processes that constitute this world - queuing, check in, security clearance, moving around and so on - depend on relations between people and material objects...This free course, Passports: identity and airports, offers a sociological analysis of the modern airport. Using a lively mixture...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...World War, and more than 2,000 times in nuclear tests. The scale of destruction brought about by these weapons, and the rapid increase in both the number and the power of nuclear weapons in the following years, has prompted deep fears about their potential future use. While the end of the Cold War offered brief relief from such anxieties, in recent years, more countries...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
A moment of zen: Jon Stewart leaves The Daily Show
History & The Arts

A moment of zen: Jon Stewart leaves The Daily Show

...world...Jon Stewart opened his final episode of The Daily Show with “full-team coverage” of Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate, featuring current and returning Daily Show correspondents from throughout Stewart’s tenure, including Stephen Colbert. [Jon Stewart interviews Barack Obama] Jon Stewart conducts one last interview with Barack Obama Before...
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Article 5 mins
Oliver Sacks: "Don't skip the footnotes"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "Don't skip the footnotes"

...world, and how we may labour for others in achieving this state is a theme that runs constantly through Sacks' life and work. I realise this may seem vague, but suffice to say it’s an elusive phenomenon and the work of a lifetime. Take the cover of On The Move, which features a young Sacks astride a motorcycle, almost unrecognisable from the figure we have come to know...
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Article 5 mins
Climate change’s costs are still escalating
Nature & Environment

Climate change’s costs are still escalating

...world are detailed in six scientific papers published on the 19th July. Perhaps most striking is the warning about large productivity losses already being experienced due to heat stress, which can already be calculated for 43 countries. The paper estimates that in South-East Asia alone “as much as 15% to 20% of annual work hours may already be lost in heat-exposed...
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Article 10 mins
Life after the Olympics: retirement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Life after the Olympics: retirement

...World Athletics Championships in London next year. This ‘phased retirement’ may help Bolt with the transition into retirement that many athletes struggle with. The difference between Bolt and some athletes who find retirement difficult is the fact that Usain has achieved everything he possibly could in his sport and is exiting on his terms (a ‘planned’ retirement)...
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Article 15 mins
Roman cookery
History & The Arts

Roman cookery

...world, and their cooking was no different. Many of their recipes come from the Greeks – Libum for example. This would have been used by the Romans in sacrificial offerings and then eaten by the slaves working in the temples. There is even a story of a slave boy who ran away as he couldn’t face any more of the sweet dish. Roman cooking was traditionally highly...
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Activity 10 mins