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Emmy Noether: Bucking the historical trends
Science, Maths & Technology

Emmy Noether: Bucking the historical trends

...world’s most prestigious places to undertake study in mathematics, only six are women. At every stage of tertiary education, women are opting to work in sciences such as biology and medical sciences, rather than mathematics and physics. Historically, women have not enjoyed educational equality. Indeed, Oxford only began awarding degrees to women in the 1920s. Even today...
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Foreign interference?
Digital & Computing

Foreign interference?

...world’s second-largest maker of mobile phones and a major supplier of telecommunications products to companies such as BT. As part of its expansion in the UK, Huawei is obliged to work with government agencies and telecom operators to prove the security of its hardware and software at a specialised facility near Banbury in Oxfordshire. Are Huawei and ZTE spying on us?...
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Swearing today: have our attitudes changed?
Languages

Swearing today: have our attitudes changed?

...across cultures? Can swear words be created? Can they have benefits to the human psyche? In our documentary film (available on our YouTube platform) comedians Adam and Theo AKA Shuffle T and Marlo go on a search through the wonderful world of profanity. Due to the language explored, the film is age-restricted and only available to watch on the OpenLearn YouTube platform....
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Methods in Motion: Getting on your bike, and looking for answers
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Getting on your bike, and looking for answers

...world that theories represent. In many traditional definitions of the research process, first you define the question. Then you define the data that would allow that question to be answered. Finally you select and carry out the technical method most suited to creating that data. However, this model of research is arguably a mirage that ignores how many researchers...
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Why are black and white cats black and white? And why are there piebald horses?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why are black and white cats black and white? And why are there piebald horses?

...world's most beautiful cat. (Editorial claim). Our team of researchers from the universities of Bath, Edinburgh and Oxford have been working to unlock the mystery of how these animals get their distinctive patterns. We have discovered that the way these striking pigment patterns form is far more random than originally thought. Our findings have implications for the study...
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The Life of Socrates
History & The Arts

The Life of Socrates

...world during Alexander's conquests. Socrates was born c. 469/470 BCE to the sculptor Sophronicus and the mid-wife Phaenarete. He studied music, gymnastics, and grammar in his youth (the common subjects of study for a young Greek) and followed his father's profession as a sculptor. Tradition holds that he was an exceptional artist, and his statue of the Graces, on the road...
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How can education contribute to sustainability?
Education & Development

How can education contribute to sustainability?

...World Environment Day 2021, two further students on the same module evaluated the impact of studying EfS on their vision and practice. Jonathan Harris applied this to his work in primary schools, in particular the Music curriculum, and James Mansell to his work in secondary school Physical Education (PE). They too realised the necessity of placing EfS at the core of...
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Big data and bioinformatics: Powerful tools for decoding DNA
Science, Maths & Technology

Big data and bioinformatics: Powerful tools for decoding DNA

...world producing information, is there a way for other scientists to look at large sets of results and use them to make new discoveries? ...A great deal of experimental data generated by scientists is now stored online in publicly available databases. Because of this, it can now be used (‘interrogated’) in large biological studies to uncover clues about the functions...
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