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How Elvish has had greater impact than Esperanto
Languages

How Elvish has had greater impact than Esperanto

...work in the real world. His Elvish languages as they are depicted throughout his work are living, changing things, which evolve to reflect the culture of the communities who speak them. The idea of an international auxiliary language, on the other hand, is to provide a stable, unchanging code, which can be easily learnt by anyone. But human languages are never static;...
What’s wrong with how nurses are portrayed in the media?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What’s wrong with how nurses are portrayed in the media?

...work] Unless a person has experienced nursing care first-hand (from an insider perspective), they are unlikely to know and properly understand the role and responsibilities and will draw from their (inaccurate) schema (from an outsider perspective). This means that they use false stereotypes to inform perceptions and decision-making. This cycle is perpetuated through...
Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?

...work, and jeopardised the adequate preparation of the pistes, courses and jumps that will host many of the skiing and snowboarding competitions. This challenge in itself reflects the increasing prevalence of warmer weather in the Alps which is attributable to climate change, and since Cortina last hosted the Winter Olympics in 1956 the average February temperature in the...
Large language models - the chatty computer
Digital & Computing

Large language models - the chatty computer

...work is still needed before these technologies can be considered entirely ‘safe’ for a wide audience. ChatGPT responds to prompts from users by using the relationships calculated during the training process to construct a linguistically accurate response. Whilst LLMs are sometimes said to use statistics to ‘predict the next word’ in their response; in actuality...
Is the first step in beating superbugs to defeat poverty?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is the first step in beating superbugs to defeat poverty?

...work by interferring with normal ribosomal functions, preventing accurate protein synthesis. The antibiotics seen as the light sources are spectinomycin, streptomycin and paromomycin. On May 26, 2016, researchers at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center reported the first case of what they called a “truly pan-drug resistant bacteria.” By now, the story has...
Create stunning images of the Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

Create stunning images of the Universe

...work horse of astronomy is the optical telescope. From its inspirational beginnings, being pointed to the sky for the first time in the 1600’s by Galileo Galilei, to the goliaths of modern-day astronomy, such as the Gran Telescopio Canerias with its 10.4 metre mirror, all allow us to get clearer and more detailed views of objects further and further out into the...
Review: Europe Reset
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Europe Reset

...work, he argues, because it is divided along simplistic pro- and anti-integration lines, and lacks legitimacy with citizens. Indeed, he accurately points out that the EU already has a plethora of accountability mechanisms built into it. What is missing are ‘participative forums that connect citizens to the EU project’. The key concept in the book is that of...
Brain Awareness Week
Science, Maths & Technology

Brain Awareness Week

...workings of our brains give rise to consciousness. Questions about the brain are actively being investigated by neuroscientists around the world, including by researchers at the Open University - here's what our PhD students from Life, Health and Chemical Sciences have been up to in the labs. The first two articles re new and from academics at The Open University: Brain...