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We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?
Science, Maths & Technology

We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?

...managing pets.” Not to mention worries over hygiene and disease. Much of the evidence of the benefit from PARO is based on informal observation (though there have also been more controlled trials). In one pilot study, three New Zealand researchers investigated a small group of residents in a care home for the elderly. Each resident spent a short period handling,...
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...manage to lose a bit of momentum on the energy efficiency side of it, some of the very low cost options like investing in cavity wall insulation, loft insulation, we lost momentum on the rate of production… the rate of installation fell, and trying to redress that balance and actually pick that low-hanging fruit again, because there’s lots of it there, would be the...
Gweithio hybrid: sgiliau ar gyfer arwain
Money & Business

Gweithio hybrid: sgiliau ar gyfer arwain

...Management 3.0: Leading agile developers, developing agile leaders, Indiana: Addison-Wesley. Armstrong, C. (2019) ‘The idea that “trust is earned” is a myth’, LinkedIn. Ar gael yma: https://www.linkedin.com/ pulse/ idea-trust-earned-myth-chris-armstrong-cde-acc-cmf (Cyrchwyd: 16 Gorffennaf 2022). Boitnott, J. (2015) ‘Use these great examples of sports teamwork...
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...Introduction - The Roman poet Ovid has always been a bit of a mystery. Hugely controversial in his own time, he was banished from Rome – if we are to take him at his own word – for his poetry. But this did not stop him from being extraordinarily influential on everyone from William Shakespeare to Rachel Smythe, whose 2018 webcomic based on mythological figures, Lore...
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Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake
Science, Maths & Technology

Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake

...managed to source a copy for you. Frank Drake: Oh my goodness. Dallas Campbell: And I hope you enjoy it. Frank Drake: Oh thank you very much. Now I can find out what I’ve been doing all these years. Dallas Campbell: Exactly. Anyone whose searching for N I think should certainly read that. But thank you very much for sparing the time. Frank Drake: Thank you very much,...
‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury
Education & Development

‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury

...Holder, A. M. B., Nadal, K. L. and Esquilin, M. (2007) ‘Racial microaggressions in everyday life: Implications for clinical practice’. American Psychologist, 62(4). https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.62.4.271 Williams, M. T. (2020) ‘How Microaggressions Are Harmful’. Managing Microaggressions, pp. 43–56. https://doi.org/10.1093/MED-PSYCH/9780190875237.003.0003...
Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris
Languages

Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris

...Introduction - This course offers you around 15 hours of interactive study in French, with audio and video material and at an advanced level, on the topic of science and technology in France. Learning Outcomes include how to express wishes, preferences and necessity, how to structure arguments, write a summary, use the subjunctive, express the conditional, pronounce...
Animals at the extremes: the desert environment
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: the desert environment

...Introduction - This course is the first in a series of three on Animals at the extreme. It is concerned with the integration of behaviour anatomy, physiology and biochemistry in diverse vertebrates that live in deserts. Once you have completed this course, you will be all the more able to appreciate the linked courses that follow, Animals at the extreme: hibernation and...