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Unparliamentary language: the benefits of swearing in politics
Languages

Unparliamentary language: the benefits of swearing in politics

...become president his message to China would be, "Listen you mother*****s, we’re going to tax you 25 per cent!". And of course, midway through the 2016 campaign, audio of him explaining that, "I did try and f*** her" and that he grabbed women, "by the p****" was endlessly broadcast around the world. For almost any other politician this would have sunk their candidacy...
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Is there such thing as ‘male’ and ‘female’ autism?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is there such thing as ‘male’ and ‘female’ autism?

...become intuitive to them after many years of ‘practice’, and they may not realise that they’re masking. Masking can have an important protective and adaptive function that helps autistic people navigate a neurotypical world where people can be judged harshly unless very specific social scripts are followed (for example, not smiling or making eye contact can be...
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The Psychological Risks in Reality TV and How Aftercare Should be Done
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Psychological Risks in Reality TV and How Aftercare Should be Done

...become about the importance of this that he then started working with broadcasters to explicitly work socially positive narratives into productions. But what does sitting passively watching adults being goaded into interpersonal strife, denigration and dysregulated emotional outbursts do for the million or more viewers? Can we not expect at least some degree of...
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Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...become associated with criminality and deviance and identified, labelled and pathologised as figures of menace, danger and threat. Understanding and challenging the ways in which this criminalisation leads to the over-policing, over-incarceration and under-protection of particular populations lie at the heart of critical criminological arguments. The indication of a...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr
Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities
Nature & Environment

Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities

...become available if EU boats are given more restricted access to the UK EEZ are hake, herring, mackerel and saith. Landings of these fish in Scotland were valued at £129.7m: the comparable figure for England was £7.6m. Thus, Scottish production already substantially exceeds that in England in those fish stocks likely to freed up by EU exit. This could see the Scottish...
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Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...students sometimes try to approach research? I can give you an example from something I’ve done in the last few years where I have a, a few cases of research, mainly based on interviews, where I asked people living in London who weren’t British to tell me their sort of life stories, their contacts with languages in their lifetimes and also how they lived their lives...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...becoming smarter and may soon become intelligent. This free course, Machines, minds and computers, looks at what intelligence is, how computers may become so, and whether they ever will really be intelligent. It is aimed at people interested in understanding what intelligence and thinking really are, and who want to understand the underpinnings of our ideas about...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Language and creativity
Languages

Language and creativity

...students, they generally appreciated the interesting new form, but were unconvinced by the content, and actually came to the consensus that it didn’t qualify as poetry. So can we agree that it’s inappropriate and therefore not creative, or should we try to see whether it’s appropriate in a different way or in a different context? Attempting to apply the Kaufman and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs