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Artificial intelligence
Digital & Computing

Artificial intelligence

...becoming available - so who knows what the future might bring? The Arguments: Aaron Sloman [Aaron Sloman] Professor Aaron Sloman works in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. He is primarily a philosopher and his objective is to find out what minds are, what sorts of minds are possible and what sorts of physical machines can implement them,...
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Article 15 mins
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...become able to receive and process streams of sensory information by being temporarily attached or ‘housed’ in a material body. Indeed, according to scholastic theological tradition, since angels do not have bodies they must borrow unused ones in order to deliver messages to earth. It is important to realise just how puzzling the nature of such a mind would be if...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them
Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them

...become such a focus of a person’s life that the fear itself impacts nearly all aspects of their quality of life. In the next section you will find out more about the experience of panic disorder...Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them: 1.3 Experience of panic disorder - So far you have learned about how mental health professionals define panic attacks...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...becomes, that are affected. These also affect the personal lives of those around her – tragically so if the Sheriff's interpretation of events holds. But, in less extreme forms, in more moderate regimes that connect welfare to work, ways of conceptualising rights and entitlements are shifting, ‘common-sense’ ideas about welfare are changing, and how welfare subjects...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The impact of technology on children's physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of technology on children's physical activity

...become a form of socialising. Some trackers use rewards that children enjoy and which keep them motivated. From your own experience or observations, you may also have noted that the way trackers look might play a part in whether or not children want to wear them, as well as how comfortable they are wearing them. However, trackers may also have the opposite effect if...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Fire ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Fire ecology

...becoming increasingly important issues for ecosystem management...Fire ecology: 1.1 The effects of fire on an ecosystem - Given the 2020 wildfires on Australia and the obvious devastation they have caused, the perception of wild fires is often that they are destructive disturbances. However, wildfires are an important part of healthy ecosystems and play a key role in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Languages and the refugee crisis
Languages

Languages and the refugee crisis

...becoming familiar with these differences, as well as trying not to automatically take offence, can help intercultural understanding. The European Day of Languages aims to encourage European citizens to learn more languages in order to promote linguistic diversity, as well achieving plurilingualism across Europe. At present, when Europe is facing an enormous challenge in...
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Article 5 mins
It's a run-off: Argentina's presidential election goes to a second round
Society, Politics & Law

It's a run-off: Argentina's presidential election goes to a second round

...become a powerful political identity, its standard-bearers can still lose elections if they end up fighting among themselves. Uneasy bedfellows Daniel Scioli was not an obvious choice of candidate. Given he’s always stuck to his own opinions and was a protégé of disgraced neoliberal president Carlos Menem, “Kirchnerista” hardliners have always regarded him with...
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Article 5 mins