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Telegram brief history. Stop
Digital & Computing

Telegram brief history. Stop

...human communications, it is useful to start with the apparatus by which telegrams are sent - the telegraph. Its name comes from the Greek and can be broken down into 'tele', meaning 'at a distance' and 'graphein' - 'to write'. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the telegraph as 'an apparatus for transmitting messages to a distance, usually by signs of some kind'. As...
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Strange coloured teeth; strange coloured bones
Science, Maths & Technology

Strange coloured teeth; strange coloured bones

...humans. Presumably they also have pink bones (I can't find anything to confirm this, which is a total bummer). Another interesting thing is people with CEP are typically very sick, yet fox squirrels seem to get along just fine with it. Several drugs and poisons can turn teeth and/or bones yellow. Being exposed to cadmium over a long period of time (e.g. working at a...
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Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?
Languages

Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?

...human brain evolved to be multilingual – that those who speak only one language are not exploiting their full potential? And in a world that is losing languages faster than ever – at the current rate of one a fortnight, half our languages will be extinct by the end of the century – what will happen if the current rich diversity of languages disappears and most of us...
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Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...human comprehension...Is the universe infinite? Do we know what happened before the Big Bang? Where is human consciousness located in the brain? And are there more undiscovered particles out there, beyond the Higgs boson? In the modern world, science is king: weekly headlines proclaim the latest scientific breakthroughs and numerous mathematical problems, once...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The caring manager in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The caring manager in health and social care

...resources available and within the seemingly constant process of change – often on a large scale. The dual imperatives behind this change have been the needs to cut costs and improve services, increasingly in the face of competition for scarce resources from the independent and not-for-profit sectors. Managing change is not only challenging in itself but also in terms...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
How can Facebook decide who you really are?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Facebook decide who you really are?

...human beings take in connecting with one another. And Facebook does not have terms of use—it has “Community Standards,” a term that gives the impression that we all made them up together, or that they somehow naturally evolved from some shared agreement on what is right and good. It is from Facebook’s Community Standards that users first learn that “when people...
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Getting started with a Password Manager
Digital & Computing

Getting started with a Password Manager

...humans are really bad at creating and remembering passwords - our passwords are too easily guessed, and we have a nasty habit of reusing passwords between sites. This means that if we become a victim of a hack on one site in which our username and password are stolen, it is all too easy for criminals to try and use those details to break into another – possibly a...
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Article 15 mins
Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology
Society, Politics & Law

Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology

...human Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD) and that human consumption of beef was the likely cause of vCJD. This followed years of Government and experts insisting that the consumption of British beef was safe (including a government minister feeding a beef-burger to his own daughter on live television) – something that many members of the public suspected was untrue....
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