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Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...Introduction - The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. B. F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement (1969) In this course I want to offer you a panoramic view of the intellectual background to the ideas we're going to cover. There are four principal sections – 'Machines', 'Minds', 'AI' and 'Computers' – framed by this introduction and some...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...Introduction - Our modern Games and the Ancient Olympics are different in many respects – today’s Olympics are strictly secular, whilst the Ancient Olympics were steeped in religion; our modern Games have 42 disciplines, compared to the six of the Classical world; today, men and women of all nationalities are invited to compete, whilst, according to the Greek author...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...managers in the City that I’ve spoken to, (most of them, not all), believe that Shell and companies like Shell have 30 years, probably, left before they really have to start tightening down on their fossil fuel operations. And they’re willing to continue investing, certainly, for a decade or two before they have to start thinking about pulling funds out. BM: People...
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Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...management of such patients in general, and supported a decision to continue to treat Kate aggressively,” recalls Menon. Kate eventually surfaced from her ordeal, six months after the initial diagnosis. She described how she was indeed sometimes aware of herself and her surroundings. Each day she woke up, she fell asleep, but like all such patients she could not respond...
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John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...Introduction - This course, on the first two acts of John Webster’s Renaissance tragedy The Duchess of Malfi, focuses on the representation of the theme of love and marriage in the Malfi court, and the social conflicts to which it gives rise. The course guides you through the first part of the play and will help you to develop your skills of textual analysis. This...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...Introduction - This free course, Start writing fiction, looks at how characters might be drawn and how setting is established. It explores the different levels of characterisation, from flat to round, and how character and place interact. It also works on the effect of genre and how genre can be used. The main teaching material in this course is taken from an existing...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Music and its media
History & The Arts

Music and its media

...Introduction - This free course will provide an introduction to some of the main ways in which music is transmitted. There are three case studies, each of which focuses on one form of musical media during a specific historical period in a particular geographical location. You will begin by looking at a copyist of music manuscripts in the sixteenth-century Low Countries;...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
More or Less: interview with Tim Harford
Science, Maths & Technology

More or Less: interview with Tim Harford

...managed to identify well this guy is the same age as the governor, has the same number of kids as the governor, lives on the same street as the governor, it’s probably the governor. So that I think has slowed down the open data movement. And these are serious things we need to wrestle with. But I wouldn’t write it off either. So much of what we do now on More or Less...
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