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Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system
Science, Maths & Technology

Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system

...change as designers collaborate with ecologists and others creating green spaces and habitats for BND. [Brown wooden house for insects surrounded by green plants’]Brown wooden house for insects surrounded by green plants These are but a few ways that living systems design can help us think and act differently about food and shelter, and how we need to meet basic needs...
Building a crystal radio set
Science, Maths & Technology

Building a crystal radio set

...changing taps on the coil. In which case, taps every five turns would be useful. Detector The purpose of the detector is to recover the audio signal (waveform) from the radio frequency signal. Early crystal sets used an adjustable ‘cats whisker’ detector, but a germanium or Schottky diode is now used, examples are OA90, OA91, BAT81, BAT85, 1N34, 1N5711. Any one of...
From boom to bust: the AI winter
Digital & Computing

From boom to bust: the AI winter

...change the world. Today, neural nets are used for an incredible range of tasks. They identify images, speech and music, they translate between languages, recognise handwriting and identify trends in social media feeds. Neural nets buy and sell stocks and shares, identify gene sequences that lead to disease, drive vehicles, filter spam email, monitor computers for...
Opening up history: religion and politics in the Elizabethan era
History & The Arts

Opening up history: religion and politics in the Elizabethan era

...change on early modern politics, despite not being especially interested in war or at all religious! Ultimately, since I was studying for my first university degree, Elizabethan England is simply the period and place where I feel I belong. 4. What is your research project about? The book is in the form of a biography of a political figure, one of the most traditional...
Closing the awarding gap: practical actions to support Black and minority ethnic students
Education & Development

Closing the awarding gap: practical actions to support Black and minority ethnic students

...changes made by tutors, module teams (and departmental and faculty management teams) can make a huge difference. Practical actions from recent research Below is an accessible, thematic summary of recommendations from selected studies. Each theme contains the core steps research shows can help close awarding gaps. 1. Make expectations clear – especially for unfamiliar...
Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity
OpenLearn Ireland

Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity

...change and even greater instability. References Population and migration estimates, April 2024 (2024) Key Findings Population and Migration Estimates, April 2024 - Central Statistics Office. Available at: https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-pme/populationandmigrationestimatesapril2024/keyfindings/ (Accessed: 27 April 2026). Reimagining identity and...
The ice-covered ocean worlds of the outer Solar System
Science, Maths & Technology

The ice-covered ocean worlds of the outer Solar System

...change. Two exploration missions are close to launch: NASA’s Europa Clipper and the European Space Agency’s JUpiter Icy Moons Explorer; JUICE for short. JUICE is planned to launch in 2022, and Europa Clipper in 2024. They will both take around seven years to reach Jupiter. These missions will study Europa and its neighbours Ganymede and Callisto, both of which might...
Thrill seeking and risk taking - what has made extreme sports into a worldwide phenomenon?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Thrill seeking and risk taking - what has made extreme sports into a worldwide phenomenon?

...changing.” These findings present a different interpretation to participation which perhaps relates more closely to a desire to escape the confines and restriction of current society. Participation can facilitate more positive psychological experiences and allow people to experience freedom and re-connect with nature (Brymer and Schweitzer, 2013). This need for freedom...