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How Bitcoin works
Digital & Computing

How Bitcoin works

...mathematical technique called hashing that produces a unique identifier for the block (like a fingerprint) known as the hash. The hash and the block are then added to the block chain. Crucially, the new hash incorporates the hash of the previous block, which, in turn, used the hash of the block before that, and so on and on and on right back to the very first transaction....
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Article 5 mins
An introduction to digital simulation in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to digital simulation in healthcare

...podcasts on healthcare simulation – SIMZINE – Marhar (2024) presents a summary of podcasts in healthcare simulation. CoDHcast | Council of Deans of Health – Podcasts by the CoDH (2025) on contemporary topics. Simulation Debrief by CAE Healthcare – a podcast about the future of healthcare simulation (Patel, 2022). TALK: A tool for structured clinical debriefing...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Language of Poverty
Society, Politics & Law

Language of Poverty

...podcast we will be discussing how this change has occurred and what it means for the way we view class in contemporary society. Joining me are Owen Jones, commentator and broadcaster, author of Chavs, Demonisation of the Working Class. Owen Jones: This idea of, as well as skivers versus strivers, work-shy and feckless, living behind closed curtains, daily diet of poison...
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Understanding the role of art historians in a changing world
History & The Arts

Understanding the role of art historians in a changing world

...podcasts. In the last few years, the Art History curriculum at The Open University has expanded and evolved to reflect changes in the discipline and academia at large. For example, this video at the top of the page was commissioned for a new module, ‘Art and its critical histories’ which addresses art in relation to globalism, feminism, and the environmental crisis....
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Video 10 mins
OpenMinds: Why visit Mars and what we might find there?
Miscellaneous

OpenMinds: Why visit Mars and what we might find there?

...Mathematics and Rhian Chapman (@RhianInSPACE ), PhD student, will look at the challenges of landing on the Red Planet and markers of life there. Transcript Dr Lewis will question why missions fly to Mars, why it is so hard to land there and what the recent European Space Agency ExoMars 2016 mission found there and will reveal next. As co-principal Investigator for the...
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Article 5 mins
Just six numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Just six numbers

...mathematics there's a marvellous pattern called the Mandelbrot set, which you describe by a very simple formula. That simple formula encodes something which displays layer upon layer of structure however much you magnify it. The mystery is why our Universe is encoded by a set of numbers and formulae which are like the Mandelbrot set. We are in a Universe where the laws...
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Article 5 mins
Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model
Science, Maths & Technology

Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model

...mathematics was such that she continued her schooling beyond high school (very unusual for African-American children at that time) and had graduated from college by the time she was 18. Katherine became a wife, a mother and a teacher, and her story might have ended there, if it hadn’t been for her drive to continue with her mathematics. Human computer In the 1950s, the...
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Article 10 mins
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...mathematics examination question a first-year student is asked to state and prove Pythagoras’s Theorem. Level 1 The student should have previously memorised the theorem and its proof and could repeat this verbatim as the answer to the question without needing to reference Pythagoras’s original statement or the course text’s version of the statement. The theorem is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs