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Structural Integrity: Materials Testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Structural Integrity: Materials Testing

...analysis have wide applicability, as there are very few manufactured components and products that do not experience any loading during their life. The tracks on this album demonstrate a selection of specialised tests designed to tell us about the behaviour of materials under certain conditions. They also show how failure assessment can be used to obtain information as to...
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Audio 41 mins
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...data makes identity an increasingly contentious space. Researchers Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle's work explores where the new digital world might take us...Introduction In an (in)famous postscript, Gilles Deleuze traces the emergence of a society of control, whose passive danger is jamming, and whose active danger lies in piracy and viruses. Media jamming and piracy,...
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Article 15 mins
Hans Rosling: How to compare countries using statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Hans Rosling: How to compare countries using statistics

Statistician magician, the late Hans Rosling shows you how to collate and animate the data of different countries in these short videos that depict our changing world...Transcript All videos shown were produced by Wingspan Productions Watch the videos in the Hans Rosling series Learn more about data with our free materials
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Do people need Peeple?
Digital & Computing

Do people need Peeple?

...data without truly informed consent. Or, as it was put in a Washington Post article: The most surprising thing about Peeple — basically Yelp, but for humans — may be the fact that no one has yet had the gall to launch something like it. It’s been pointed out that some dating apps, such as Lulu, have very similar features. However, these dating apps only allow people...
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Article 5 mins
Lleihau ôl troed carbon digidol y cwmwl
Nature & Environment

Lleihau ôl troed carbon digidol y cwmwl

...data i raglenni, o raglenni a rhwng rhaglenni. Cyn i ni wneud hynny, mae'n werth nodi bod y broses o symud cyfrifiadura a storio i'r cwmwl wedi cynnig cyfle i ehangu oes asedau cyfrifiadura personol, fel y trafodir yn yr erthygl caffael cyfrifol. Mae'r cwmwl yn helpu i ehangu defnydd oes cyfrifiaduron personol Tua 2016, cafwyd trobwynt o ran technolegau cwmwl, a...
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Article 5 mins
Why school-based sex education isn’t inclusive enough
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why school-based sex education isn’t inclusive enough

...analysis of nationally representative data, we found that young (aged 16-25 years) British women who have sex with women (WSW) were less likely to report lessons at school as their main source of information about sex when growing up compared to women who have sex exclusively with men (WSEM). Instead, WSW were more likely to report a category defined as ‘other’, which...
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Riddle of the Tay Bridge disaster
Science, Maths & Technology

Riddle of the Tay Bridge disaster

...analysis Mathematician Tom Martin uses the modern method of 'structural computer analysis' to understand the failure of the bridge, and looks at how this failure started at the base columns due to heavy winds. Forensic Engineering Dr Pete Lewis explains how he believes the dynamic effects of vibration and the inappropriate use of cast iron, caused fatigue to the Tay...
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Simple Coding - Summary
Digital & Computing

Simple Coding - Summary

...data arithmetic operators (+, -, *) simple data types (strings and numbers, both integers and floating point) data structures (lists) sequence (one instruction per line) iteration (for and while loops) selection (if-else and if-elif-elif-...-else), comparisons (>, <, ==, !=, >=, <=) functions (len and sum for lists, int and float to convert strings to numbers) input from...
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