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What danger do asteroids pose to life on earth?
Science, Maths & Technology

What danger do asteroids pose to life on earth?

...project, DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test), to redirect a threatening asteroid at the preliminary design phase. A spacecraft, about 1.5 metres across, will be aimed to crash into an asteroid (Didymos B) about 140 metres across. Didymos B orbits a primary body, Didymos A. The aim of the project is to change the orbit of Didymos B around its binary partner, while not...
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Telling Tales: what is happening on police Facebook sites?
Society, Politics & Law

Telling Tales: what is happening on police Facebook sites?

...project...' In our research we explored organisational police Facebook sites and have noticed that the communication on these sites is dynamic, energetic and (to us at least) really fascinating! In our observations the way stories get told on police Facebook sites can be likened to an ambitious community film project, where a story is scripted by multiple authors, at...
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By extending the remit of PCCs, the government is playing with fire
Society, Politics & Law

By extending the remit of PCCs, the government is playing with fire

...project which replaced 15,000 police staff jobs with a “home guard of 9,000 unpaid police support volunteers”. According to UNISON – the biggest union for police staff – the project was never the subject of proper public debate or scrutiny. In light of these issues, it seems ill-advised to roll out a clearly flawed system to encompass an even wider remit. If the...
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Collective Creativity
Money & Business

Collective Creativity

...projects (including those of the wider creative industries) enables, motivates and constrains the reproduction or transformation of social values, and the realisation of people’s creative potential. Creativity can be understood both as the generation of new ideas and as the idea-transforming component of innovation. There are two strands of thought on this. One is...
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The Borders of Astrobiology
Science, Maths & Technology

The Borders of Astrobiology

...project that works beautifully with a small, single, engaged community that stays with the project from start to end. What issues will we need to address when we scale up engaged research to regional or national scales? Should we even try? Is quantity less important than quality? [Portrait of Richard Holliman]Richard Holliman, Professor of Engaged Research at the Open...
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Differences and Similarities: Policing in the US and the UK
Education & Development

Differences and Similarities: Policing in the US and the UK

...Project, 2018; Lammy Review, 2017; Prison Policy Initiative, 2019;;Pierson et al, 2020;; Gov.uk, 2019; London.gov.uk, 2020) US England & Wales Black and Latinx drivers were stopped and searched roughly two times more than White drivers (from analysis of data from 100 million traffic stops across US police forces) From April 2018 to March 2019, there were 38 stop and...
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A Europe of the Regions?
Society, Politics & Law

A Europe of the Regions?

...Introduction - This course discusses the future of Europe, and it looks particularly closely at what may happen to the smaller political units presently existing below the level of the nation-state. These include nation-regions like Scotland and Wales, larger entities like the German Länder, and smaller more recently created regions with less existing cultural unity....
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The psychological benefits of multilingualism
Languages

The psychological benefits of multilingualism

...managing emotional skills. Multilingualism research indicates that a high level of multilingualism and multiculturalism makes people more tolerant of ambiguity (Dewaele and Wei 2013). Language learning is fraught with ambiguity, particularly in situations where real communication needs to take place, and language learners who are not able to tolerate this kind of...
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