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What are the security risks of living in a Smart City?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are the security risks of living in a Smart City?

...management problems that creates, are not unique to cities – in fact the New York State Chief Information Officer (CIO) recently gave testimony describing the same challenge at the state level in the Empire State. Other challenges, like the proliferation of sensors from transportation and energy infrastructure and the privacy challenges of data around that expansion,...
Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs
Society, Politics & Law

Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs

...management when elected. The basis for competence-based trust Brexit and its painful unfolding over the last two years have many examples of politicians’ displays of an astounding lack of competence amongst top politicians. Since Tory party politicians lead the Brexit negotiations, the examples here sway towards conservative politicians: From David Davis not turning up...
Should we read John Locke today?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...manage the boundaries where one person’s ‘freedom’ might harm another person?...Usually when wrestling with these tricky questions, we turn back to the great political thinkers associated with developing a robust idea of freedom. These are historical thinkers, often those associated with an era once known as the ‘Age of Enlightenment’, like Jean-Jacques...
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...Introduction: Introduction - This free course, From Brexit to the Break-up of Britain?, is focused on the 2016 referendum vote on membership of the European Union. It aims to do so in ways that go beyond the familiar debates over whether the outcome was right or wrong. Instead it focuses on what the vote has to tell us about the United Kingdom and its future. In the 23...
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...Introduction - Trade took Venetian merchants all over the Mediterranean and as far as China, a fact that affected not only the city’s economic prosperity but its cultural identity, making fifteenth-century Venice one of the most culturally diverse cities in Europe, a fact clearly depicted in many Venetian paintings. This course reviews some aspects of the social and...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...Introduction - This course aims to get you started on exploring the Classical world by introducing you to the sources upon which you can build your knowledge and understanding. The course also gets you started on an exploration of both time and space in the Classical world. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 2 study in Classical Studies...Introducing the...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Understanding PCSO powers
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding PCSO powers

...Introduction - Welcome to this free OpenLearn course Understanding PCSO powers. Following the introduction of the PCSO in 2002, the role has become embedded in modern-day policing and is, for many communities, the only contact they have with someone they can pass information on to and raise issues of concern with. This course will introduce you to some of the powers that...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Our sense of balance
Science, Maths & Technology

Our sense of balance

...project into specific overlying structures. For the otolothic organs this is the otolithic membrane, the surface of which is covered by a blanket of crystals called otoliths. For the semi-circular canals this is a gelatinous mass called the cupula. [Inner ear hair cells] There are two types of hair cells in the vestibular system. The first type are flask shaped and are...