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A very brief history of AI
Digital & Computing

A very brief history of AI

...work on the program for many months and therefore surely knew it to be merely a computer program, started conversing with it. After only a few interchanges with it, she asked me to leave the room. Such was the excitement of seeing a computer actively participate in a conversation, to seemingly understand the patient and drive further discussion, that shortly after...
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Birth of the Welfare State
History & The Arts

Birth of the Welfare State

...working-class parents of these children had only dreamed of. Another nine major pieces of legislation were passed with strong support across the political parties before the decade was out. The list of legislation brought forward by Atlee's government shows that along with opportunities for access to education came a house building programme, free health services and,...
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Workplace Survivor Syndrome
Health, Sports & Psychology

Workplace Survivor Syndrome

...working partners. The time following these layoffs can be very depressing. The survivor guilt is a confused feeling of relief that it wasn’t them being laid off, plus, a sense of grief for their friends and colleagues who do not have a job. This is often accompanied by the feeling they didn’t deserve to be saved, leading to guilt. This feeling of relief and happiness...
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Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont
Society, Politics & Law

Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont

...working on the railways in 1977. In this interview by Angela MacGregor, she speaks about her time as a union rep...Find out more about The Open University's History and Social Sciences courses. Introducing Nan Zaimaitas by Angela MacGregor I first met Nan at the start of my own career in the Scottish Railways. You would be forgiven for overlooking this unassuming woman as...
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Opening up history: art in the Reformation
History & The Arts

Opening up history: art in the Reformation

...work to her, which led me to thinking about the place of art in the Reformation. Since my PhD I have explored how Protestants used images and objects to express their faith and status. 3. What is it about your specialist area that fascinates you? I’m fascinated by how inanimate objects become so important to people, how we give them meaning and how they shape everyday...
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Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...working-class to the new post-revolutionary state, brought Mexican mural artists international acclaim and Rivera was subsequently awarded important commissions in the United States. Yet, due to his commitment to a figurative form of propaganda, Rivera’s reputation suffered during the Cold War period and these Mexican murals are now largely left out of dominant accounts...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...work has stimulated a massive and very productive field of research with important implications for childcare. This OpenLearn course describes Bowlby's theory and the work that has built on it, illustrated with video recordings of the assessment of attachment in a laboratory setting and a talk by an eminent attachment researcher...This free course, Attachment in the early...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
What do literary agents do?
History & The Arts

What do literary agents do?

...work of fiction? JONNY GELLER: Well, a literary agent primarily is there to discover new talent and exploit the rights derived from the copyright in that work. So we go out and find, we sift through the thousands that are sent to us and of course we also manage the careers of writers throughout their life, but really, it’s half business and it’s half creative,...
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