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Why is discovering gravitational waves from a neutron star collision a big deal?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why is discovering gravitational waves from a neutron star collision a big deal?

...data. And the period that followed was definitely the most intense and sleep deprived, but also incredibly exciting, two months of my career. The announcement comes just weeks after three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their foundational work leading to the discovery of gravitational waves, first announced in February 2016. Since then, detecting...
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Black History Month 2022 talks
Education & Development

Black History Month 2022 talks

...Data Science group. His research project is aimed at investigating Intersectionality in Hate Speech Detection with a focus on ‘Misogynoir’ - a unique form of misogyny experienced by Black women with the intersection of sexism and racism. His study explores how misogynoir manifests online and how it could be mitigated since existing technologies for hate speech...
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The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...data interpretation. The question is often asked how such a contentious paper came to be published in the first place. Click on the following link to download a PDF of the original paper published in The Lancet (1998), 351, pp. 637–41 – http://briandeer.com/ mmr/ lancet-paper.pdf (accessed 6 September 2012). It will be useful to have this paper to hand as you now look...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...data to do good policy analysis and understand the world that we live in. And what we found is there was really poor energy data and therefore we couldn’t do good analysis. So Russell Layberry, my colleague, and I, over cups of tea, lunches, conversation, thought, how could we create some tools to gather that data, and we didn’t want just to gather the ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality
Science, Maths & Technology

FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality

...Mottaleb, K. A. et al. (2019) ‘Spending privately for education in Nepal. who spends more on it and why?’ International Journal of Educational Development. Elsevier 69(C), pp. 39–47. Thapa, A. (2015) ‘Public and private school performance in Nepal: an analysis using the SLC examination’. Education economics, 23:1, pp. 47–62, DOI: 10.1080/09645292.2012.738809...
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Engaging with our environment: what are the benefits?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Engaging with our environment: what are the benefits?

...M.J., Gascon, M., Perez-Leon, D. and Mudu, P. (2019) ‘Green spaces and mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies’, Lancet Planet Health, 3, pp. 469-77. Uebel, K., Marselle, M., Dean, A.J., Rhodes, J.R. and Bonn, A. (2021) ‘Urban green space soundscapes and their perceived restorativeness’, People and Nature, 3(3), pp. 756-69....
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Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited
OpenLearn Ireland

Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited

...analysis – Defender Perhaps the apex of Gallagher’s hardboiled blues came with 1987’s Defender – as close to a concept album as he ever got – with each song portraying the sleazy underbelly of a city and offering a tough, realist look at the constant fight between morality and survival. [Album cover - Rory Gallagher, "Defender"] Album cover for Defender. Source:...
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Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Education & Development

Reparations for slavery in Barbados

...Mortality: Analysis of Evidence from Plantation Records’, Social Science History, vol. 3, no. 3/4, pp. 86-114. Williams, E. (1944) Capitalism and Slavery, Penguin. Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679. Leviathan, Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1968, Leviathan.p65 (mcmaster.ca) Locke, John. 1993. Two Treatises of Government. Everyman. London, England: Phoenix Government...
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