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Do you trust forensic science in the criminal justice system?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Do you trust forensic science in the criminal justice system?

...works twilight shifts regularly and often finishes work between midnight to 1am. He goes to this 24-hour gym after his shifts. On Tuesday Dave had finished his work-out around 1:30am and was at his locker when he was attacked and robbed. His attacker had a face covering and hat with dark, baggy clothing. He hit Dave from behind with a heavy object, several times. Dave was...
Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes

...working on a breastfeeding app, where women can report places they feel happy about breastfeeding in public in the city. And another project, for example, has the initiated by a campaigner around the rights of visually impaired people to use cities easily. And she wants to get beacons embedded in the urban environment, particularly Milton Keynes' shopping centre, to...
Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?
OpenLearn Ireland

Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?

...work colleagues and friends can result in ‘fat’ shaming ourselves. In fact, the desire to be thinner will result in many of us engaging in a diet at some point in our lifetime. Despite there being a lack of evidence to support the effectiveness of diets, one in four will diet in their lifetime. According to a poll conducted in the UK, the average person will diet 126...
Sharpening Your Critical Thinking
History & The Arts

Sharpening Your Critical Thinking

...work that out. We might survey tennis experts, or the general public, we might discuss what counts as gracefulness in tennis and examine the footage ourselves, or something else. Perhaps, when we do the research, we’ll decide that the premise is true; or perhaps we won’t. It isn’t obvious whether Your Argument passes the first test. In contrast, My Argument does...
The Science of Fear
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Science of Fear

...work this out, but by having a go, we may begin to understand more about our own fears and phobias. Darwin and Fear In his wonderful book 'The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals', Charles Darwin tries to explain the evolutionary advantage of the reactions we have to various situations, like those of grief, anxiety, helplessness, surprise and fear. He compares...
Religion and Violence
History & The Arts

Religion and Violence

...work, such as national and cultural tensions, and economic challenges and inequalities. We should avoid using religion to explain too much. 3. Do not assume clear-cut links between texts, beliefs and actions. All major religions have texts and traditions that justify or even require violence under certain circumstances and conditions, but these are carefully circumscribed...
Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...working in universities, yet we were also the mothers attending the same appointments, navigating the same services, filling out the same endless forms, experiencing the same microaggressions and systemic barriers as our participants. To pretend otherwise, to adopt a stance of false objectivity, would have been to deny the very insights that our positionality offered....
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...worked within a context of scientific knowledge, available skills and tools, and set rules that govern their behaviour. The purpose of this course is to introduce you to some of the basics of engineering and to explore how engineering is done. Of course, you will first need to understand what engineering is. You probably have your own ideas regarding what is meant by the...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs