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Seven myths of being a female engineer
Science, Maths & Technology

Seven myths of being a female engineer

...career, but with supportive employers and the right infrastructure, there is no reason why it should be harder within the world of engineering. Peggy Johnson is Microsoft's executive vice president of Business Development, after a 24-year stint working at Qualcomm – and she has three children, four dogs and a cat! More on engineering Kickstart a career in engineering...
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How can your accent put your life at risk?
Languages

How can your accent put your life at risk?

...world, one junior doctor reported this conversation with a senior clinician to the researchers: And he said, ‘Oh, you know we see this, a lot of this Haitian chest pain.’ And I said, ‘What do you mean by that?’ And he said, ‘Well, they come in and the tests are negative, and they have a different perception of pain than other people.’ He kind of wrote it off...
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The rural dimension – after rundale
OpenLearn Ireland

The rural dimension – after rundale

...and enterprising choosing to emigrate, communities in the West of Ireland became isolated and depressed by the continuing losses of traditional rural society to urbanism and industrial capitalism. From the world outside, the West of Ireland looked either hopelessly backward or beautifully unspoiled, depending on the point of view. Explore the articles in this collection ....
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...learners? OpenLearn has users from all over the world – from over 236 nations in fact! People come for many different reasons: to supplement their formal learning; for help choosing their future learning pathway; purely for the fun of learning; and for many more reasons besides. Discover the fascinating journeys of some of our learners in Why I study with OpenLearn....
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Ten commandments of research
History & The Arts

Ten commandments of research

...World War One. You might not be able to read every single newspaper for four years. You might need to take key events or to do a systematic search, say taking different months at random or looking at key events. What are the advantages of your particular method of investigation? Oral history, for example, can make history come alive but it can be biased, inaccurate or...
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60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence
Digital & Computing

60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence

...World (Lee Sedol). AlphaGo played thousands of games of Go against a twin of itself until it had learned the best ways to win. Adversarial learning can be applied in certain situations when training data are scarce, but a general goal for the algorithm can be defined. It has been used in scientific contexts to intelligently enhance the resolution of astrophysical images...
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Dealing with feedback when you are neurodivergent
Education & Development

Dealing with feedback when you are neurodivergent

...world set up for neurotypical people, neurodivergent people may be used to getting a lot of negative feedback. Especially when being neurodivergent means thinking and often acting differently. Over time, this expectation of doing things wrong can run deep. As a neurodivergent person, you may get very invested in things you do. This is known as hyperfocus. When something...
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The trouble with teaching physics
Health, Sports & Psychology

The trouble with teaching physics

...world based on their everyday experiences. For example, students sometimes mistakenly think that light and electricity flow like water or that cold is not the absence of heat, but a substance with a physical location that can flow from one place to another. The trouble is that students’ incorrect ideas can lead them to reject what they are taught. Even when teachers...
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