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Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...Introduction - What does ‘digital humanities’ mean? What is the difference between ‘digitised’ and ‘born-digital’ data? And what do we mean by ‘metadata’? During this week, you will become familiar with the fundamental terms of digital research. You will learn about the history of digital humanities, discover how physical objects can be made readable by...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Can Starbucks sell coffee to the Italians?
Money & Business

Can Starbucks sell coffee to the Italians?

...introduction of “instant espresso” coffee by Illy and Lavazza in the UK demonstrates. Autogrill, the leading Italian catering group, even runs licensed Starbucks outlets in its overseas airports concessions including in the US. Yet no coffee chain stores have ever been established in Italy. A different coffee culture Italian coffee culture is distinctive in many ways,...
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Article 5 mins
Sea level rise in Looe, Cornwall
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Looe, Cornwall

...introduction to a heated debate, in ‘Environmental Policy in an International Context: Book 1, Open University Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (IPCC) (2013) ‘Summary for policy-makers’, in Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group 1 to the Fifth Assessment Report in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
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Article 5 mins
What can we expect at the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What can we expect at the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games?

...introduction of skateboarding seems like a radical move for the Olympics and will hopefully engage a different audience to the traditional Olympic sports. There are two disciplines of skateboarding – Street and Park. Street skateboarding is held on a straight street-style course and includes stairs, handrails, benches, and walls. Athletes are judged based on originality...
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Article 10 mins
How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English
Languages

How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English

...introduction of an eggplant-flavoured condom to their range as part of a spoof publicity stunt in reaction to the Unicode Consortium (the organisation who oversee all thing emoji) turning down their proposal for a condom emoji. And then there’s the company Eggplant Mail, which will anonymously send an actual aubergine, inscribed with a message of your choice, through...
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Article 20 mins
Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice

...introductions to alternative approaches to wellbeing which challenge the taken for granted, causal links between size and ill health. You can learn more about Lucy Aphramor’s ‘Well Now’ approach (offering workshops for both clients and wellbeing practitioners) on her website. There is a Health at Every Size UK website with links to practitioners working from the...
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Article 10 mins
From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models
Science, Maths & Technology

From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models

...introduction to Bayesian thinking Bayesian statistics provides a framework for combining prior knowledge with observed data. Named after Thomas Bayes, an eighteenth-century mathematician, this approach is based on a simple idea: our beliefs about an unknown quantity can be updated as new evidence becomes available. Rather than eliminating uncertainty, Bayesian methods...
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Article 5 mins
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...Introduction - Session 1 illustrated that growing the economy as a policy objective we should continue pursuing is a contested question within the discipline of economics. Similarly, the questions of how an economy is organised and how income is distributed within an economy are debated concerns within economics. [Described image] Figure 1: Economists of different schools...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs