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COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics

...mathematical modelling. This study is based on fitting a simple linear link between average daily infection rate and the total reported number of cases per thousand population. This is despite the fact that the fit is not very good, as can be seen from the figure above. This can be measured. In statistics, we look at the squared correlation value. In this case, it is only...
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Article 10 mins
Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer
Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...mathematics at the University of Michigan and graduated with a BA in mathematics and a minor in philosophy from Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana in 1958. In 1959 she began work in the meteorology department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for Professor Edward N. Lorenz, the pioneer of chaos theory, programming early computers to predict weather. She...
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Can comedy change your life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can comedy change your life?

...podcasts are comedic, including Marc Maron’s WTF, which gets a reported 5 million downloads a month and an average of 450,000 per episode. There’s even a podcast for comedians by a comedian, aptly titled The Comedian’s Comedian Podcast. Academic researchers are also increasingly interested in humour, often being lumped together under the label ‘humorologists’....
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Should communities be expected to help in death, dying and bereavement?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should communities be expected to help in death, dying and bereavement?

...Lead at the Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care); Dr Chantal Meystre (Director of The Omega Course) and Dr Guy Peryer (Lecturer and NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) East of England Palliative and End of Life Care Research Fellow). The recording is available as an episode of the Open Thanatology Talks! Podcast series, available on Spotify and Amazon Music....
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Article 5 mins
Outdoor Therapy: The Benefits of Walking and Talking
Health, Sports & Psychology

Outdoor Therapy: The Benefits of Walking and Talking

...podcast here. Two things come to mind when we think of walking and outdoors: both are immensely beneficial for our physical and mental health and wellbeing. Both are also immensely beneficial for people who have a neurodegenerative condition such as a type of dementia. You can read more about the ageing brain here. Walking is a type of exercise suitable and beneficial for...
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Article 15 mins
How long would it take to colonise the galaxy?
Science, Maths & Technology

How long would it take to colonise the galaxy?

...mathematically feasible to believe that humankind could ever spread across the universe?...Our current technology precludes any of us from travelling beyond the Solar System in a human lifetime. However, with our present technology, or at least the technology that might come in the next century or so, we can imagine an amazing prospect. [Imagined vision of a spaceship...
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Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...mathematical manipulation of a few numbers. You are already using, or want to learn how to use, some systems-based approach to working with the situation in which you are interested. You are aware of how a systems approach differs from other approaches commonly used in scientific analysis, sociology or business management. In order to get the most out of this course, you...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Do music lessons help with children's other classes?
Education & Development

Do music lessons help with children's other classes?

...mathematics. But our review shows it is unlikely that music training can reliably enhance a child’s cognitive or academic skills. This is because the link between music skill and superior cognitive ability may only be a correlation. Put simply, people do not necessarily become smarter because they have learned how to play the piano or sing in a choir. Rather, smarter...
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