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What is Blockchain?
Digital & Computing

What is Blockchain?

...human behaviour online through ‘one computer one vote’. In this way, a blockchain can act as a provenance protocol for sharing data across disparate semi-trusting organisations. An overview of OU research on blockchain can be found at this link. Click here to download the video transcript (PDF) This article is adapted from an OpenLearn Create course under a Creative...
Exploring Philosophy
History & The Arts

Exploring Philosophy

...obligation by living within that state. Courage to refuse Can citizens decide which laws to follow for moral reasons? Descartes, doubt and knowledge A discussion about how Descartes used doubt as a means to clarifying his understanding of the world. Cartesian dualism Dualism suggests that human beings are made of two independent substances, the mind and the body....
Audio 2 hrs 16 mins
Analysing European Romanticism
History & The Arts

Analysing European Romanticism

...human experience and transcendence from the purely rational. This succinct discussion contextualises that shift. Romanticism and the religious crisis Once more reacting against the Enlightenment, Romantic philosophy eschewed traditional religion, rejecting historical claims in favour of modern reason and re-appraisal of biblical texts. Urbanity and romantic irony The...
Religion Today
History & The Arts

Religion Today

...humanity in the eyes of God and some testaments by the congregation of Milton Keynes covenant fellowship. Assemblies of God church in prayer Congregation of the Assemblies of God church having a church service. Worship service of the Rhema church Rhema church congregation at prayer during a service, including hymns and preaching. Cassandra, the village witch Cassandra...
Audio 2 hrs 34 mins
Why is it dangerous when Trump sees people as objects?
Languages

Why is it dangerous when Trump sees people as objects?

...humanity, dignity, needs or opinions of those with whom he disagrees. As the tape shows, he clearly talks this way in private, too. In a campaign that has epitomized the danger of this rhetoric, women are merely the latest to fall victim to this sort of “thingification.” Silencing opponents The history of American political discourse is riddled with the
A bird on the edge: the story of the chough and how it speaks for people
Society, Politics & Law

A bird on the edge: the story of the chough and how it speaks for people

...human habitation. But, the story of the relationship between chough and people is more intimate than this might suggest and legend has it that when King Arthur was ‘killed’ he did not die but was transformed into a chough, the birds blood red beak and legs serving as a reminder of the act. Consequently, the tale also states that bad luck follows anyone who kills a...
Does fiction make people more empathic and is that a good thing?
History & The Arts

Does fiction make people more empathic and is that a good thing?

...Humans are the only animals that create, tell, buy and sell stories, and fiction is big business (Nettle, 2005). The idea that fiction engagement might be adaptive, functioning to support empathic skills or buffer against a lack of real-world social contact has generated research and public interest over the past decade or so. In 2013, a series of experiments by...
Twin Town a sinema Gymreig ar ddiwedd y nawdegau
History & The Arts

Twin Town a sinema Gymreig ar ddiwedd y nawdegau

...Human Traffic Justin Kerrigan (1999), fel y ffilm nodwedd Gymreig gyntaf i wir gefnu ar y gorffennol a chynnig ffordd newydd o ddychmygu bod yn ifanc ac yn Gymry wrth i ni nesau at y milieniwm. Nodwyd yr ymgais hon i gefnu ar bortreadau traddodiadol y gorffennol yn un o'r adolygiadau cynnar o'r ffilm: Just as Trainspotting makes a clean break with the traditional Scotland...