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You don't need to go to Oxford to study philosophy. Not when it will come to you. Above, find a playlist that features 41 lectures from Oxford's course called General Philosophy.

Bottin's Career Overview: https://youtu.be/JeIDGJkScSQThe Thing is much beloved movie, and not least because of it’s practical effects by SFX whizzkid, Rob B...

Here at Bentley Woodfair we see members of the South of England Hedge Laying Society (Chris Burchell Collins, Gary Moore and Frank Wright) demonstrate their ...

Composer/Producer Joe Acheson's imaginary orchestra, played live by a real band. New album 'To Dream Is To Forget' out now, on tour this Autumn.

For many rural communities, hedgerows are a defining feature of their local landscape, as well as a vital resource for biodiversity. But despite their importance, many UK hedgerows are in decline and on the brink of being lost. The main threat to hedges and the services that they provide are changes in management practices related […]

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The collective erosion of X, Instagram, and Facebook marks a turning point for millennials, who are outgrowing a constant need to be plugged in.

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Social Media is on the decline. Not just any one site but all of it. The entire idea. Traffic everywhere is down. What we once saw as a way…

Some say we are in the ‘golden age’ of Earth Observation (EO) with huge numbers of diverse remote sensing platforms in orbit and terabytes…

Results of a study that asked participants to take a week-long break from social media find positive effects for wellbeing, depression and anxiety.

On International Day for Biological Diversity Service Designer Chris Brooker shares some insight into the work that has gone into designing a service for a unique new government policy which goes live later this year.

What once might have been a nice-to-have in terms of a real estate project’s environmental impact will soon be a must-have. From November, any commercial development will be subject to a planning condition requiring developers to show how they can increase biodiversity onsite by at least 10%. It marks the first time such a requirement will be statutory rather than voluntary. At UKREiiF, EG deputy editor Tim Burke sat down with Alexa Culver, general counsel at Environment Bank, and Ben Stansfield, partner at Gowling WLG, to discuss the new biodiversity net gain regulation, the challenges developers will face in factoring the new requirements into their planning proposals, and how an initiative from Environment Bank could give developers – and landowners – a new opportunity.

Information addiction is rotting our brains

Learning to feel OK with unpredictability can bring great rewards. Just ask the world’s scientists and artists who embrace doubts and the unknown

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In our latest webinar, partner Angus Walker introduces the latest state of play on biodiversity net gain (BNG) including the government’s consultation respon...

‘Andor’ showrunner Tony Gilroy tells all about making season 1 of ‘Andor’ (including episode 10's spectacular prison break), responds to critics, previews Season 2 and much, much more

The event, a first for Shaftesbury School, was called ‘Louder than Words’ and it more than certainly lived up to that name! At midday, in front of those fam...

Regenesis starts harmlessly enough. In his first chapter George Monbiot illustrates the complexities of soil structure by describing what he sees when he looks at a sod dug up from his orchard through a 40x magnifying eyepiece.

“There are no guidelines. There’s no respect. There’s absolutely zero transparency. It’s awful," staff at Twitter told i as the dramatic instability at the social media company grows each day

Advice from Farm Carbon Toolkit's Becky Willson on which soil testing method is most appropriate for your purposes. Learn more about soil testing here.

The “Twitter Files,” and the journalists hand-picked for them, don’t reveal what Elon Musk wanted.