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This is a short introductory video to biodiversity. The term 'biological diversity 'was used first by wildlife scientist and conservationist Raymond F. Dasmann in 1968, where he advocated conservation. And the term 'biodiversity' first appeared in a publication in 1988 when entomologist E. O. Wilson used it as a title.
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Carl, the academic lead at LIS, explains why interdisciplinarity is needed to tackle real-world problems.
Haibo explaining the power of interdisciplinarity.
Isaiah describes how studying one subject is not the only route to take when trying to get into a particular profession.
Knife crime is rising at an alarming 14% a year across the country. With 30% of national knife crime occurring in London, the majority is thought to be related to street violence (34%) and robbery (42%). Data shows 75% of victims of knife crime in London were male, frequently under the age of 25 and with a huge overlap between victims and offenders. Despite a much greater likelihood of carrying knives among gang members, gang-flagged crime accounted for just 5% of all knife crime with injury.
With around 430,000 deaths annually, nearly half the world’s population is at risk of contracting malaria. New CRISPR technology enables us to edit the genes of mosquitoes to eliminate the species that carries malaria, but at what cost?
Obesity increases your risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancers, depression and more. It is estimated to cost the NHS £5.1B each year, which is more than the £3.3B smoking cost. The highest rates of obesity routinely occur in the areas of greatest deprivation. Unfortunately the exact causes of obesity aren’t clear. It is an interplay of factors including genes, diet, physical activity, but also the social and cultural environment.
300 football fields of forest are cleared every hour to satisfy the growing demand for palm oil. It is one of the worst sources of greenhouse gases and a major habitat destroyer. Palm oil typically changes hands at least three times before reaching manufacturers.
400 hours of content are uploaded to Youtube each minute and a billion hours are watched every day. Internet companies are expected to remove extremist material within an hour of it being flagged, but firms struggle to meet these targets.
As job creation is concentrating around cities, ever more people are being forced to commute. On an average day in london 500,000 people arrive between 7am-10am by train alone. At Liverpool street, the 8am peak sees a staggering 12 times more people than it’s 1pm low. This is an enormous challenge for train operators, as the vast majority of their customers only experience the service at its worst possible time.
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09 October 2020
2 mins
This is a short introductory video to biodiversity. The term 'biological diversity 'was used first by wildlife scientist and conservationist Raymond F. Dasmann in 1968, where he advocated conservation. And the term 'biodiversity' first appeared in a publication in 1988 when entomologist E. O. Wilson used it as a title.
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09 October 2020
4 mins
Some of the Explore ID students took a look into intensive farming and its effect on biodiversity.
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09 October 2020
3 mins
Through June and July this year, I participated in the online learning experience ‘Explore ID: COVID-19, Complex Problems, and Interdisciplinarity’. This course delivered by LIS brought together 53 students from around the world, applying an interdisciplinary approach to learn about and respond to some of the challenges the world faces due to the pandemic.
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#Biodiversity
09 October 2020
2 mins
Venturing outside our comfort zone we recognise that if we ever want to promote ‘sustainable development’ we must first learn how to sustain and develop our listening skills, and our ability to participate in true dialogues.
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02 October 2020
4 mins
Traditional education at all levels is being threatened by COVID-19. Both in the short- and long-term, it will need to be reinvented . This is a crucial complex problem for society, one that will require an interdisciplinary approach to understand and address.
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08 September 2020
15 mins
The fight for equal rights when it comes to race has been going on for a very long time but the events of the last few months and the Black Lives Matter movement has caused a huge reaction worldwide. Members of the LIS team Nepor and Janine have a short chat about some of their thoughts and takeaways from BLM.
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08 September 2020
3 mins
One of my favourite pieces of quasi-lockdown viewing was the BBC’s Mrs America, a nine-part series co-produced with HBO and charting the fate of the U.S. Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s. The Equal Rights Amendment – known as the ERA – was an attempt to change the U.S. constitution to explicitly render illegal discrimination on the basis of sex. In other words, to give women equal rights in laws including those on divorce, working hours, and the military.
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08 September 2020
4 mins
From Black Lives Matter to the Hong Kong Protests, 2020 will go down in history as a banner year for social movements. But the practice of activism, described as “the use of direct and noticeable action to achieve results of a political or social nature”, has been a fundamental component of the history of humanity.
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