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The role of business development in AstrobiologyOU
Science, Maths & Technology

The role of business development in AstrobiologyOU

...University College, London. For about 12 years I worked as a research scientist in the UK and Europe, using large ground-based and space-borne facilities including the Very Large Telescope in Chile and the Hubble Space Telescope. I studied nebulae associated with evolved stars and star-forming regions, such as the Orion nebula, with its proto-planetary discs where new...
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Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...University course D110 Exploring psychological worlds: thinking, feeling, doing....Psychology around the world: Introduction - Welcome to this exciting free OpenLearn course! In this course you will explore how psychology helps us to understand human thoughts (how people think), emotions (how people feel) and behaviours (what people do) across different societies. This...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
A polyglot life
Languages

A polyglot life

...university and then probably relocate to Brussels. They joked that one day my head might explode, were I to be crazy enough to learn many more languages, especially the “weird” ones like Serbian or Croatian! “Oh! That Richard! The one who speaks like a gazillion languages!” Everyone had their ideas as to where languages would lead me and what is possible for...
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Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

...University course A210, Approaching Literature. If you want to explore these topics further you could opt to study A100 The Arts Past and Present which includes material on Irish national identity in the unit ‘Tradition and Dissent’. A multi-disciplinary course, AA100 also introduces you to literary study. If you enjoy in-depth discussion and analysis of literature,...
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Should we read John Locke today?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...universal value. ‘Men being … by Nature, all free, equal and independent’, he argues, ‘no one can be put out of this Estate, and subjected to the Political Power of another, without his own Consent’ (John Locke, page 330, "Second Treatise of Government," in Two Treatises of Government, 1689). Locke’s ideas were highly influential in his time and after. He...
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Decolonising computing?
Digital & Computing

Decolonising computing?

...University featuring scholars Simone Browne, Anita Say Chan, Lilly Irani, Lawrence Liang, and Jack Qiu (Chakravartty and Mills, 2018). Decolonising computing tends to be framed by such scholars in terms of exploring the kind of computing being done in the periphery / at the margins (or borders) of the modern/colonial world system informed by a praxis-based commitment to...
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The Cyber Armour: A podcast which champions voices and safety of women and girls in the digital world
Society, Politics & Law

The Cyber Armour: A podcast which champions voices and safety of women and girls in the digital world

...University. It is a podcast which champions the voices and safety of women and girls in the digital world. It explores different topics in relation to online safety, while aiming to appeal to a non-academic, general audience that may not have many opportunities to deepen their understanding of these issues. The Centre for Protecting Women Online is a vehicle for...
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Teaching a robot how to speak
Languages

Teaching a robot how to speak

...communicate? What are the challenges faced by researchers into trying to teach a machine how to speak? And what does this tell us about the nature of language itself? Transcript This material is from the Open University module L101 Introducing English language studies. See below for some other resources about the topics of artificial intelligence and the English language....
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