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The OU meets Pink Floyd
History & The Arts

The OU meets Pink Floyd

...think we always expanded. We never went back. Really the thing I’m conscious of and the Ummagumma picture at the time was sort of state of the art in terms of equipment. Everyone looked at it and went wow! Whereas now you look at it and you think yeah I’ve got that in my backroom. SEAN In terms of the use of delay, that was fairly consistent from the Binson Echorecs...
Drivers and hand-held mobile phones: extending the ban won’t solve the problem – here’s why
Health, Sports & Psychology

Drivers and hand-held mobile phones: extending the ban won’t solve the problem – here’s why

...thinks they can safely multitask while also avoiding prosecution, what’s stopping them? We need to change attitudes The tightening of the law may help to encourage some drivers to think about their phone use, but it seems unlikely it will solve the problem of mobile phone use among drivers, and eliminate the harm it causes. In a broader sense, changes to the law will...
Why is aggressive female sexuality pathologised on-screen?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is aggressive female sexuality pathologised on-screen?

...thinks and acts beyond herself. This does not prevent her from using her sexuality as a means in which to gain intelligence. But unlike her femme fatale predecessors, she makes the mistake of falling in love. Throughout the ages, love has been opposed to reason. It has even been considered a madness. In Homeland, Carrie experiences a form of madness in her love for the...
The psychology of conspiracy theories
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of conspiracy theories

...thinking, attributional styles, etc.) to see whether conspiracism is underpinned by some intrinsic perceptual or reasoning deficit which leads people to misunderstand or misinterpret causal relations in the world. Overall, this quest for the psychological profile of conspiracy theorists has yielded modest results. Conspiracy theorists have been shown to be quite similar...
What happens to our brain as we age and how can we stop the decline?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to our brain as we age and how can we stop the decline?

...thinking) can be challenging. So, let’s have a look what happens when our brains are ageing and how we can prevent brain decline (memory and thinking) as we grow older in a few simple steps. It is an urban myth that every older person will develop dementia and in reality, it is a spectrum from normal age-related decline through to a clinically diagnosable dementia.The...
Race and place
History & The Arts

Race and place

...think I'm a mule? ‘Where do you come from?’ ‘I'm from Glasgow.’ ‘Glasgow?’ ‘Uh huh. Glasgow.’ The white face hesitates the eyebrows raise the mouth opens then snaps shut incredulous yet too polite to say outright liar she tries another manoeuvre ‘And you parents?’ ‘Glasgow and Fife.’ ‘Oh?’ ‘Yes. Oh?’ Snookered she wonders where she should...
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Brain-inspired computing: a new paradigm for sustainable AI
Science, Maths & Technology

Brain-inspired computing: a new paradigm for sustainable AI

...thinks like one. Neuromorphic computing Instead of running brain-inspired software (ANN) on conventional hardware, neuromorphic computing is a hardware replication of our brain's neurons and synapses, emulating how the brain passes and processes information. Memory and processing happen in the same place, just as neurons and synapses do. The core building block of any...
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...Think about this first stanza of Thomas Hardy's ‘Neutral Tones’ (1867): We stood by a pond that winter day, And the sun was white, as though chidden of God, And a few leaves lay on the starving sod; – They had fallen from an ash, and were gray. (Gibson, 1976, p. 12) Notice that, in the last line, ‘oak’ or ‘elm’ would work just as well as far as the rhythm or...
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