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The Z Files: Chi Onwurah
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Z Files: Chi Onwurah

...work of beautiful engineering and the fastest ship in the world at the time it was built, but also powerful and useful. It wasn’t beautiful and useless; it was useful I guess. And it was from Newcastle, you know, and that really did inspire me. Benjamin Zephaniah When I was a little boy going down the park with a little girl, I would have been like freaked out if she...
A very brief history of AI
Digital & Computing

A very brief history of AI

...work on the program for many months and therefore surely knew it to be merely a computer program, started conversing with it. After only a few interchanges with it, she asked me to leave the room. Such was the excitement of seeing a computer actively participate in a conversation, to seemingly understand the patient and drive further discussion, that shortly after...
Workplace Survivor Syndrome
Health, Sports & Psychology

Workplace Survivor Syndrome

...working partners. The time following these layoffs can be very depressing. The survivor guilt is a confused feeling of relief that it wasn’t them being laid off, plus, a sense of grief for their friends and colleagues who do not have a job. This is often accompanied by the feeling they didn’t deserve to be saved, leading to guilt. This feeling of relief and happiness...
Opening up history: art in the Reformation
History & The Arts

Opening up history: art in the Reformation

...work to her, which led me to thinking about the place of art in the Reformation. Since my PhD I have explored how Protestants used images and objects to express their faith and status. 3. What is it about your specialist area that fascinates you? I’m fascinated by how inanimate objects become so important to people, how we give them meaning and how they shape everyday...
Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess

...worked with Mary Douglas, what did she mean by this? Adam Kuper: Well, I think Mary Douglas would have made a strong distinction between the dirty and the unclean. So the dirty is something physical and the unclean is not necessarily physical, it's not necessarily mud on your boots, it's polluting in some kind of sense, more a spiritual problem. And for a number of human...
Trusting Statistics in Today’s News
Science, Maths & Technology

Trusting Statistics in Today’s News

...this panel discussion, Dr Katie Chicot hosts statisticians Dr Kaustubh Adhikari & Professor Kevin McConway who explain when you can and can’t trust statistics. The discussion will cover important questions you should ask yourself about the statistics in front of you: Who produced the statistics? Why are they showing me this? Has the work been verified? Transcript...
Business development skills for apprentices
Education & Development

Business development skills for apprentices

...work on your 'soft skills' (like assertiveness and self-confidence) or become adept at 'hard' skills (such as project management or IT applications), The Open University is here to help with our collection of free courses...[Business development skills for apprentices] Try our FREE courses in an array of subjects to support you. IT training Time and priority management...
Engineering your dream career
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering your dream career

...working on the things you love. Discover engineering careers which match your passions in this short interactive experience on women in engineering...Have you ever considered a career in engineering? Perhaps this makes you think of dirty overalls, hard hats and a lot of maths. But in reality, engineering projects and job roles are much more diverse. Explore these 5 areas...