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James Honeyborne - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Honeyborne - Earth in Vision

...humanity. There are very few places on this planet where there isn’t some sort of balance now between nature and mankind, and to not reflect that would be to not reveal the whole truth. When have you introduced environmental issues into a blue-chip series? I think above all else we need to be true to nature, and to be true to nature you need to give the context as it...
Introduction to critical criminology
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to critical criminology

...human beings have free will and are rational actors human beings have certain inalienable rights there is a social contract between citizens and the state. The idea of a social contract is a key feature of the classical school and includes the notion that transgressions that breach the social contract are seen by society as ‘crimes’ (Williams and McShane, 1999)....
How do fire controls harm biodiversity?
Nature & Environment

How do fire controls harm biodiversity?

...human created fire in Brazil has seen a growth of dense forest - but it comes at a cost, reports Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade...[Savanna Hawk] A savannah Hawk perches on a fence post in Pantanal, Brazil Policies that prevent fires caused by people in El Cerrado (the Brazilian savannah) lead to biodiversity losses because they promote the expansion of forests with dense...
PodMag April 2016
Society, Politics & Law

PodMag April 2016

...human flourishing, what it is, how it’s determined and what we can do to promote it. The book draws on scientific research from economics, psychology, philosophy and politics that looks at quality of life, wellbeing and happiness across the human life course. Dr Meg-John Barker Karen speaks to Meg-John Barker about Secrets of Enduring Love, how to make relationships...
Buddhist Economics
Society, Politics & Law

Buddhist Economics

...human development to overcome self centeredness and augment human creativity and knowledge. Presented by Dr Mike Lucas from The Open University Business School and Alan Shipman from the Department of Economics at The Open University... The intellectual foundations of the shareholder value model Dr Mike Lucas of The Open University Business School explains how the...
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...societies have to take urgent action to end their dependences on fossil fuels. We have to alter the whole path of our development and decision making in order to make our societies both environmentally adaptable and sustainable. This free course, Climate change, takes on the task of trying to chart some of the ways in which it might be possible...Human societies have to...
Sniffing out signs of life
Science, Maths & Technology

Sniffing out signs of life

...human nose but they are present in much of the Earth and its atmosphere, forests, oceans and cities (Figure 2). VOCs can be produced by industrial processes and from all life found on Earth (for example humans, livestock, microbes) through their metabolic processes. The VOCs cycle around Earth’s ecosystems and are lost, gained, used and released through myriad natural...
From boom to bust: the AI winter
Digital & Computing

From boom to bust: the AI winter

...human language. Early, positive results led to high expectations that truly intelligent computers built around multiple perceptrons were close at hand. An excited New York Times wrote: The Navy revealed the embryo of an electronic computer today that it expects will be able to walk, talk, see, write, reproduce itself and be conscious of its existence. Later perceptrons...