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What are the challenges and opportunities of urban artificial intelligence and robotics?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are the challenges and opportunities of urban artificial intelligence and robotics?

...fiction, artificial intelligence (AI) is now increasingly embedded in technologies which underpin everyday life in our towns and cities. Indeed, cities of multiple intelligences which include both artificial and human ones have arrived...The recent AI Safety Summit and press coverage suggest we need to think carefully about these new urban technologies. On one hand, the...
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The lifelong political engagement of the Silent Generation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The lifelong political engagement of the Silent Generation

...fictional golden past, a past that they experienced and remember. As one citizen said about those who claim we need to return to Britain’s glorious past, ‘they didn’t live through it’. As the research progresses, it is clear that citizenship and political engagement is lifelong. Just because official information gatherers do not recognise the value of the opinions...
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An introduction to crime and criminology
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to crime and criminology

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: provide a basic definition of ‘crime’ demonstrate that ideas about what a crime is and what it is not are often contested provide a definition of what criminology is and the subject matter it pertains to understand what criminologists ‘do’ develop and use criminological imagination to think...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
53 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Education & Development

53 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...learning resources...​...ABOUT OPENLEARN OpenLearn was born in 2006, the same year Bernard Matthews discontinued Turkey Twizzlers (thanks for that, Jamie Oliver) and Pluto got declassed as a planet. We’ve had more than 100 million visitors to OpenLearn since 2006. Our borders are open - anyone from any country is welcome (however, if you want to create an account you...
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Article 20 mins
Supporting Mental Health Through Online Music Fandoms
OpenLearn Ireland

Supporting Mental Health Through Online Music Fandoms

...fiction, making artwork, editing videos and performing music. This can give members an opportunity to develop new skills or rediscover old interests. 5. Being in an online fandom should be fun! Online music fandoms help members momentarily escape from the stresses and challenges of daily life. They can bring out your inner child as you participate in games, quizzes and...
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Article 5 mins
Beyond the Babble: A conversation about the art of listening
Society, Politics & Law

Beyond the Babble: A conversation about the art of listening

...learn more about the ‘art of listening’ and many ideas that inspired this installation as well as the collaboration between Lucia Scazzoccio a sonic artist and social broadcaster and Giota Alevizou, in the conversation below. Transcript Giota: You describe yourself as a Social Broadcaster and community facilitator or mediator. Can you elaborate, and link to the ways...
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Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept

...fiction for example, in electronic as well as in printed form. It can take place anywhere: at home, at school, in a café, on a bus (or any form of transport), on a beach, in a park (or any leisure location) – literally anywhere. At the core of reading for pleasure is the reader’s volition, their agency and desire to read, their anticipation of the satisfaction gained...
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Hacking under your skin?
Digital & Computing

Hacking under your skin?

...fiction movie. A research team in Belgium has worked out how to hack into the communications used by an implanted medical device – that is a piece of technology permanently placed inside a living person. In this case, the device was an unnamed neurostimulator used to treat conditions including Parkinson’s Disease as well as chronic pain. Although these devices are...
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