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Calling the game: Sexism in World Cup punditry
Health, Sports & Psychology

Calling the game: Sexism in World Cup punditry

...analysis and commentate at the men’s World Cup. It is also the World Cup that has given a clear glimpse into the reality of everyday sexism. Already male pundits have been accused of patronising, condescending and sexist language on air. Meanwhile a male ex-footballer has complained about women being employed for commentating because of the “pitch” of their voices....
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Innovation: The Environment
Nature & Environment

Innovation: The Environment

...analysis and opinions on carbon taxes, carbon reduction, renewable energy and environmental damage. This material forms part of The Open University course DD309 Doing economics: people, markets and policy... Innovation: The Environment A short introduction to this album. Carbon reduction A look at how we can reduce carbon omissions in the environment. Decarbonisation Can...
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Using generative AI in relation to legal issues
Society, Politics & Law

Using generative AI in relation to legal issues

...data science, which seeks to extract insights from a given set of data. GenAI is a form of AI that can generate, for example, text, images, video and other data in response to user queries, or 'prompts'. Large language models (LLMs) are a form of GenAI that have exploded in popularity and usage in both professional and personal contexts since the most well-known...
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Flowery meadows and high tech surveying equipment
Nature & Environment

Flowery meadows and high tech surveying equipment

...analysis of soil and hay, well you will have to wait until at least the autumn for all the data to be typed in and analysed. Just by eye some of the sites looked rather different to normal but this may have been more to do with the lack of a hay cut rather than the water from summer flood itself. [Botanical surveyors [image by Mike Dodd © copyright Mike Dodd]] Botanical...
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One Lump or Two? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part One
Society, Politics & Law

One Lump or Two? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part One

...data allowance. At this point, the link between the stack of sugar cubes and your data allowance is not clear. Tom lifts the topmost sugar cube from the stack and toys with it. He gives the sugar cube a trademark Hardy stare: he seems puzzled by the cube as he drops it into his coffee. What is he puzzled about? He's thinking about all that data you use via your mobile...
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Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...data are extremely easy to copy and distribute – which is sometimes beneficial, since this enlarges the community of practice for that software or information, and the community within which data can be exchanged. One way to ensure excludability is to use technical measures, like encryption and licence codes, along with the internet to check that people are properly...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Information security
Science, Maths & Technology

Information security

...data. The value of information springs from the ways it is interpreted and applied to make products – like Coca-Cola – and to provide services – like Facebook does for its advertisers. As we have seen, and supported by academic writers such as Itami and Roehl (1987), the true value of an organisation is in the information it uses and creates. Activity 3: You and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Why was the Systems Thinking in Practice hub created?
Society, Politics & Law

Why was the Systems Thinking in Practice hub created?

...Analysis for Addressing Global Policy Challenges in the 21st Century, while the UK’s Institute for Apprenticeships has approved a standard for a Systems Thinking Practitioner who ‘supports decision-makers in strategic and leadership roles to understand and address complex and sometimes even ‘wicked’ problems through provision of expert systemic analysis, advice...
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