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The Dates of the Buddha
History & The Arts

The Dates of the Buddha

...research increases and becomes more specific in different areas, we come across the paradox of scholars knowing more and more about less and less. The Controversy on Dates of the Buddha [Dates of the Buddha] Reading “The Cambridge History of India”, vol. 1 (1922), we find the following statement: There is now a general agreement among scholars that Buddha died within...
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Article 5 mins
The science of nuclear energy
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of nuclear energy

...centre of the atom is a label ‘nucleus’. There is a label indicating that on the outside of the atom is a ‘region occupied by electrons’.] Figure 2 The inside of an atom. At the centre of an atom is a nucleus. If the atom was the size of a football stadium the nucleus would be the size of an orange at the centre! The diameter of a nucleus is about one...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Understanding antibiotic resistance Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding antibiotic resistance

...Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta is not for those of a nervous disposition. It holds some of the world's most deadly life forms. This facility contains some of the greatest evils ever collected in one place. This bacteria causes the plague. Your flesh dies and rots while you're still alive. The Black Death of the 14th century killed a quarter of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes
History & The Arts

Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes

...research (2011, 2015) has found that it is extremely rare for anybody to have what used to be thoughts of as a ‘male’ or ‘female’ brain: most people’s brains display a mixture of features. And on the level of experience, over a third of people said that they were to some extent the ‘other’ gender, ‘both genders’ and/or ‘neither gender’. Superqueering...
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Sharpening Your Critical Thinking
History & The Arts

Sharpening Your Critical Thinking

...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 pass the first test. At time of writing, Williams has won the most Grand Slam singles titles since tennis professionalised. But does it pass the second test? Well, you might reasonably wonder why I am...
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Sut mae rheoli straen ddigidol technoleg
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sut mae rheoli straen ddigidol technoleg

...research publications. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/media/facts (accessed 18/5/2018) Seabrook, E. M., Kern, M. L., & Rickard, N. S. (2016). Social networking sites, depression, and anxiety: a systematic review. JMIR mental health, 3(4), e50 Seo, H.S., Jeong, E., Sungwon, C., Kwon, Y., Park, H. & Kim, Inseong (2017) Neurotransmitters in Young People with...
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An expert’s take on AI
Digital & Computing

An expert’s take on AI

...research and computing power are being put into making better AI systems, but there's a sort of ‘artificiality’ at the moment to both the text that is generated by AI, and the sound that AI can generate or the images it produces. So, if you read AI-generated text, it's very fluent, it's usually grammatically correct, but it's boring! It doesn't take strong opinions...
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Introducing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...children... BONI ADELIYI: Fight for your Black friends. Defend your Black colleagues. SPEAKER 1: ...And the young student who got her community active and fighting for their rights. We’ll show you what qualities these young leaders showed in fighting for something they believe in. Marcus Rashford, in action for Manchester United. Not the obvious person you’d expect to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs