watching from ground level makes it difficult to make sense of it all, but these days, we do have the data and we can crunch the numbers. and when it comes to understanding the really big issues, those that have effects on a truly global scale, visualising that data can turn millions of figures into something that everyone can understand. maps like these created by carnegie mellon university's ea rthtime website combine nasa satellite imagery with a wide range of datasets to produce visualisations of environmental and geopolitical events from light pollution, to refugee movement, to the effects of coral bleaching on areas such as the great barrier reef. one particular area where modelling such as this can display the starkest impacts is flooding. you can see how important that extreme weather research that we looked at in miami is. raise the global temperature byjust two degrees and the sea engulfs the entire area.

and this here is bangladesh, where rising water levels are putting many, many people at risk. in 2017, a third of the country was left underwater after monsoon rains, devastating crops and communities. but while technology can't prevent rainfall on this scale, it can make predictions to help those in remote communities to try and stay one step ahead of the weather. paul carter has been looking at how one insurance company has been using its knowledge of risk to help the farmers fight back against the rains. like farmers the world over, in bangladesh, they have to battle the elements. but in their case, severe flooding could be a regular occurrence. given the impact floods can have, weather information and advice on what farmers should do with their crops is disseminated to communities through phone voice messages. or via call centres that farmers can ring in to. and for those who don't have phones

or live in remote off—line areas, there are also weatherboards at district points where farmers can come to receive information. when floods destroyed this farmer's crops, it cost him about three months‘ wages. these initiatives were set up by the bangladeshi government and an international charity that helps communities find sustainable solutions through technology. and now, an app being piloted is taking things even further. the sesame app uses machine learning to combine historical knowledge of crop patterns with weather forecasts so that farmers can make advanced decisions on when to plough the land, plant and apply fertilisers. this farmer is being advised to spray a fungicide

to protect the crops. although these measures can be a big help, poor communities are often unaware of how vulnerable they actually are to extreme weather, or what they can do to lower the risks. another platform being used by the charity is setting out to assess just this — measuring the strengths and weaknesses of communities like those in this district. using the frmt, or flood resilient management toolkit, representatives from the charity visit different communities to look at factors such as what crops are grown, weather patterns, what large buildings exist, and the flood prevention measures that were already in place. in all, the technology looks at 88 different indicators to come up with a very holistic picture of how an area can cope with bad weather. it's quite a departure from traditional outlooks, which mostly considered factors such as dams and reservoirs. the thinking behind this technology,

though, comes from another country altogether, where flooding could also be an issue. 7500 kilometres away here in switzerland, a partnership between ibm and zurich insurance company has looked deeply into what makes for good flood resilience. in the last few decades, flash flooding has cost switzerland hundreds of millions of pounds. resilience for us is not just a new buzzword like sustainability or something else. the big challenge of resilience is that you don't see it until the event has happened. so what we want to have is a set of strong indicators that tell you something about what might resilience look like if something happens and then how can we strengthen those indicators, so it's all about not being derailed and not falling into a poverty trap despite that there are risks out there. the algorithm measures all the indicators and generates a numerical value on how resilient a population is. so this helps us use what we call engineering judgement,

or expertjudgement, to start sorting and organising the data so you can come up with these numerical scores and i think that's a pretty unique approach that we have. technology has been pivotal, but also kept simple so it can be used off—line. you need to work with simple devices so you don't have the most expensive hardware either. how easy is it to sell resilience as a concept? i think we need to move away from this, you know, what is my saving if i do this? to much more a point of trying to answer the question, what's the cost of doing nothing? back in bangladesh, for farmers in this area, the cost of floods has been very high. just how vulnerable the area is is being revealed by the researchers. waterlogging hampers people's livelihoods and leads to mass migration. by working together and making proper plans, it's hoped that the technology could help

reduce the risks to their livelihoods when floods hit. and now, we're popping back to mit in boston. this place is full of really creative people, but behind this door are three guys who are trying to make us all more creative by hacking our dreams. robot: you are falling asleep. so, what's happening here is we're taking these three bio—signals, your heart and your skin and your muscles, and we're looking for this state of sleep in between fully awake and fully asleep. what we're doing is, we're watching, watching, watching, and right as you descend into the next stage of sleep, we introduce a little audio from the robot. and that bit of audio knocks you, so you're not fully asleep. and then we see if whatever word we use will in fact enter the dream. by introducing the subject of your problem into your dream and then listening back to a recording of your so—called hypnogogic mumblings,

you mayjust find that you hit on a creative solution. specifically because in that moment, you're hyper—associative. your cognition is really elastic, it's really flexible. you don't have that same capacity to review and be critical of your thoughts, so you generate really weird, aberrant, divergent thoughts, things that come to you as dreams, but which you can later use as creative insights. robot: you are falling asleep. if, that is, you can bear listening to the weird conversations that you end up having, like this recording of one experiment. robot: you are falling asleep. think of a fork. a fork. tell me, what are you thinking? in tests, the students found that people who'd used this method could think of more creative uses for objects and they wrote longer stories with more drawings. and, you know, something tells me that the sleep glove may have been

used to come up with the concept for its own promo video. either that, or this is how adam likes to sleep most nights. that's it for the shortcut of click for this week. the full—length version is waiting for you right now up on iplayer. and don't forget, you can follow us on facebook and on twitter @bbclick. thank you very much watching, and we'll see you soon. hello. by the end of this forecast,

there is a change on the way for many, but in the short term, more of the same. best of the sunshine today across england and wales, where for many there was barely a cloud in the sky. much more cloud orfor scotland and northern ireland, particularly western scotland which had patchy rain at times. we had a frontal system to the northwest of the uk and it will continue to slowly sink its way southeast overnight and into tomorrow. i pressure maintain dominance as much of england and wales seem very dry and warm if not hot. that band of rain continue overnight in scotland. some mist and cloud developing over wales in southwest england. clear skies elsewhere and of muggy with the bridge between 13 and 16 celsius. the missile start this person with plenty of sunshine tomorrow once again. celso clapper and ireland and scotla nd again. celso clapper and ireland and scotland would patchy rain it time with some breaks in the rain the

further east you are. see the cloud leaking into part of the living could see a few spots of rain in the afternoon. strongest winds in the western isles of scotland and light winds elsewhere. still a very hot day east anglia and southeast england were two brochures are lucky to exceed 30 celsius, somewhat cooler and fresher the further northwest that you are. most of a dry heaving tomorrow evening would lay spells of sunshine and the still a band of cloud from scotland into pa rt a band of cloud from scotland into part of building and they give the odd spot of rain. here is ourfront as the go into tuesday, a weakening feature some of the time we get to tuesday, just a band of cloud but also a dividing line between the wharf and the need for the south which will hang on for another day and fresher further north and west that will eventually sink his way southeast. for tuesday, we still have our zone of cloud, again stretching across southern scotland into pa rt of stretching across southern scotland into part of northern england and northern parts of wales and still the odd spot of rain to the day but fizzling out slowly. board of that,

fresher spells of sunshine and maybe one 01’ fresher spells of sunshine and maybe one or two fresher spells of sunshine and maybe one 01’ two showers fresher spells of sunshine and maybe one or two showers was so plenty of sunshine further 7a again temperatures will exceed 32 celsius and mr macleod of the southwest will at times keep things a little cooler. but cooler is the tread the middle of the week and beyond. that he will start to ease, fresh for all assemble season showers. this is bbc news. the headlines: jeremy corbyn apologises on social media over anti—semitism in the party — after his deputy warned labour could disappear into a "vortex of eternal shame" if it wasn't resolved. president maduro of venezuela blames right—wing opponents and colombia for what he says was an assassination attempt using drones carrying explosives. the government here unveils new plans for organ donation. adults in england will automatically become donors unless they opt out — currently just under 40% of people are signed up.

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