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Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...community. Care providers – the vast majority of whom are in the for-profit or not-for-profit sectors rather than public sector – are nervous that the money will get stuck in local authorities and they won’t see the cash they need to keep services viable. But at least we don’t have the outrage and disappointment that followed the 2016 Autumn Statement, when high...
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Article 5 mins
Is science fiction a field in its own right?
History & The Arts

Is science fiction a field in its own right?

...community take place: one particularly hilarious example is the joke physics paper titled “Traversable Achronal Retrograde Dimensions in Spacetime” or “T.A.R.D.I.S.” (Tippett and Tsang) which posited a new theoretical model for time travel and gained a lot of media attention upon its submission to the arXiv, a database of science preprints. More serious is the...
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Article 10 mins
Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?

...communicated concerns regarding the potential ‘high risks’ posed by AI and apprehensions regarding safety, with performers indicating how they ‘would feel unsafe without human supervision’. Many of the coaches queried how safe an AI coach would be in trampolining when a ‘key element to coaching is the physical spotting and supporting’ which they suggested...
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Modern slavery
Society, Politics & Law

Modern slavery

...Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Community Court of Justice in Hadijatou Mani Koraou v The Republic of Niger, ECW/CCJ/JUD/06/08, 27 October 2008. What are the facts in this case? Discussion At the age of 12, Ms Mani had effectively been sold into the ownership of a tribal chief, who was 34 years her elder. In accordance with the practice in Niger called Wahiya,...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...communicating an ideology to the left of this administration. [MUSIC PLAYING] Today, Rivera is generally known, if he is known at all, as the husband of Frida Kahlo. Yet, in the 1920s and 1930s, his artistic stock was that much higher. So much so, in fact, that when the newly opened museum of Modern Art in New York decided to give its second one-man show, it was awarded...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...communicate and deliver what they are offering. Each is free to accept or reject what is on offer. Each party trusts/respects the other sufficiently to take the exchange seriously. Bagozzi originally thought in terms of commercial marketing, but later marketing theorists have applied this model to both commercial and non-commercial situations. The value of this way of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
An introduction to social work law
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to social work law

...community nurse crisis team. SPEAKER 1: She's been placed on a ward where she's continued to complain of physical complaints. SAM SWAN: But their medical investigations don't identify that there's any medical problem. OK, so she's known to us. She's care coordinated, is she? SPEAKER 1: She is, yeah. SAM SWAN: Presumably, they'll let us know if they become concerned about...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Algorithmic Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Algorithmic Design

...communities. But I don’t feel like I want to go start a woman coding meetup, although they’re great. It didn’t feel like my thing. And I didn’t feel like I wanted to – I didn’t feel like I was going to be an activist or an advocate or someone that’s speaking about these things. And I said, I don’t know what to do. And he said, well, maybe you don’t need...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs