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How technology can challenge our understanding of Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How technology can challenge our understanding of Frankenstein

...studying its output, it is worth remembering that by default Voyant excludes “stopwords”, the most common words in the English language, such as articles, pronouns and prepositions. This simple wordlist can act as a springboard for our analysis of the novel. We can, for example, compare the high frequency of man (137 occurrences) and father (134) with the only 24...
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Jediism: Will the Real Religion Please Stand Up
History & The Arts

Jediism: Will the Real Religion Please Stand Up

...are conducted on-line. No surprise then, that Jediism is moving with the times and using new technology. In short, Jediism is a symptom of our changing relationships with big institutions and their narratives, with technology and with the neighbourhoods and localities in which we live. Welcome to the world of new religions. Transcript Learn more about Religious Studies...
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The Z Files: Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Z Files: Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock

...study this and look into it? Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock So I think that was sort of my GCSEs, sort of where I’m 14, 15, because until then I hated school. Because of my dyslexia it meant I wasn’t progressing and I wasn’t reading as well as I should for my age. And also I didn’t like reading, because reading was sort of a bit of a struggle. But then I started finding...
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Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology
History & The Arts

Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology

...Study in Public Anthropology’, Anthropology Today, 36(5): pp. 1-2. Harvey, G. (2020) ‘Trans-Indigenous Festivals: Democracy and Emplacement’ in Pike, S.M., Salomonsen, J. and Tremlett, P.-F. (eds) Ritual and Democracy: Protests, Publics and Performances, Sheffield: Equinox. Nye, M. (2020) ‘A Discussion of the ‘Religion and Worldviews in Religious Education’...
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The science of making musical instruments
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of making musical instruments

...study that with The Open University What is the science of music? Music is generally thought to be an art rather than a science but what is the science behind the production of music? And can three 'tone-deaf' scientists use these principles to make musical instruments and maybe even play a tune? Let's face it, if we can master this challenge anyone can. [musical...
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Foreign interference?
Digital & Computing

Foreign interference?

...study of the security of Android mobile phones did show that both companies are amongst the worst at fixing critical security problems in their devices - perhaps that should be the real worry about Huawei and ZTE, and it’s something we can all fix – if your phone company won’t patch your phone, don’t buy another one from the same company.
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20 years in Linguistics: how the way we communicate has changed
Languages

20 years in Linguistics: how the way we communicate has changed

...The study of sociolinguistics, and of how people use language, can help us understand why the inventions of the past twenty years have had such a diverse and conflicting impact on society. And they can also help us think about what we can learn from this recent history as we debate the role we want communications technologies to play in the coming years and decades....
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Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations

...studying this course in order to take the survey....Introduction and guidance: 1 The course: an overview - This course, and another written by the same authors, Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations, are designed to develop your understanding of leadership, and to help you develop your leadership practice in the voluntary sector context. Both are aimed...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs