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Are robots about to take jobs from the poor?
Science, Maths & Technology

Are robots about to take jobs from the poor?

...human dexterity with small objects On a tour of the vast Beximco garment factory in Bangladesh in 2014, I saw the upside of outsourced manufacturing: a bright and organised shopfloor; and endless rows of women churning out fashion for major brands such as Zara and Calvin Klein – as well as income for their families. Bangladesh’s garment industry has its flaws, some of...
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Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer
Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...humans on the moon – and invented software itself. Wired, October 13 2015. Ref: https://www.wired.com/2015/10/margaret-hamilton-nasa-apollo/ Accessed 27 May 2019 Mindell, David A (2008) Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight. MIT Press. ISBN: 9780262134972, 376 pp Spicer, Dag (2017) 2017 CHM Fellow Margaret Hamilton. Computer History Museum, Ref:...
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Freud: The Expert View
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freud: The Expert View

...human or whether his ideas are merely fantasy. (Freud himself was not always sure about this, describing his ideas as a ‘mythology’ at one point.) The important question this controversy stimulates us to think about, both as individuals and psychologists, however, is this: How far is it possible to study what it is to be human in a scientific way, and if we can’t do...
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What are your chances during a zombie apocalypse?
Digital & Computing

What are your chances during a zombie apocalypse?

...humans when the outbreak starts, so the number of zombies rises quickly and soon overwhelm the remaining humans. With a lot of people clustered into large clumps, the zombies have a field day: [Graphical outputs from a computer simulation depicting what would happen if there was a zombie apocalypse.] How to survive What does this modelling say about how to survive a...
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Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...resources, and how to promote the work of living women composers. The course is illustrated throughout by interviews with industry experts who are all leaders in the field of championing the music of women composers...Women transforming classical music is a free course aimed at helping individual performers, ensembles and organisations within the classical music industry...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...human fingerprint was on climate change? RT: We were the first to show that in a statistically sound way. RH: Congratulations. I think probably not a lot of people know that . RT: Very few people know that. After that, because of essentially funding reasons, I switched more to the economics of climate change and I would say that the first five years...
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Form and uses of language
History & The Arts

Form and uses of language

...Humanities...Form and uses of language: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand how language can be used for different purposes understand the importance of form and word choice when addressing different audiences...Form and uses of language: 1.1 Introduction - Apart from writing poetry, Sassoon kept a diary during his war years,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Researching Nirvana: Whatever, Nevermind
History & The Arts

Researching Nirvana: Whatever, Nevermind

...resource for youth to distinguish themselves from other generations. Although grunge developed originally as an avant-garde or experimental genre, once it seeped into the local music scene of Seattle and evolved into its industry form, it was already well established in the collective identity of youth in the United States. Bethany Bryson. 1996. “‘Anything but Heavy...
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