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Design Behind the Bike
Science, Maths & Technology

Design Behind the Bike

...technology on cycling and explores how the development in technology has changed bike design and build over the last 100 years. The series of five films explores the development of technology, components, materials and innovation used to build and design new bicycles for the current market. The series includes the history of the bicycle, Materials explores the products...
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Video 43 mins
Computers are everywhere
History & The Arts

Computers are everywhere

A timeline of developments in information and communication technologies, from the Spanish Armada to just-before-we-started-to-Google...This timeline obviously ends just as things were getting really interesting - we've left it online for information, but why not visit our Technology section for the latest developments - and a taste of the future?
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Activity 10 mins
Brass Instruments
History & The Arts

Brass Instruments

Technology and music have been closely associated since the very first musical instruments were constructed, and in the 19th century an explosion of invention revolutionised the way brass instruments could be played. The 14 video tracks on this album introduce the basic acoustical principles of brass instruments and how technical developments have affected the way they...
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Audio 1 hr 10 mins
OpenMinds Talk: Performing Online Live Experiments 24/7: “An Internet of Laboratory Things”
Miscellaneous

OpenMinds Talk: Performing Online Live Experiments 24/7: “An Internet of Laboratory Things”

...educator How forensics investigations and materials analysis can be conducted from afar through keyboards and screens How to share the thrill of real time observing of the night sky and how to do it collaboratively without colocation How professional engineers and scientists might benefit from online access to instrumentation for training and development For almost half a...
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Article 5 mins
Supporting learners to become agents for sustainability
Education & Development

Supporting learners to become agents for sustainability

...technology, culture and education, health and spiritual wellbeing, finance and economics, land tenure and community governance. The outer layer of the flower has the following 12 principles: Observe & Interact, Catch & Store Energy, Obtain a Yield, Apply Self-Regulation & Accept Feedback, Use & Value Renewable Resources, Produce Zero Waste, Design from Patterns to...
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Video 10 mins
Explore the range of migrant experiences: Play Uneven Journeys
Society, Politics & Law

Explore the range of migrant experiences: Play Uneven Journeys

...educate participants about a relatively unknow phenomenon: citizenship-by-investment programmes, whereby the wealthy could effectively ‘purchase citizenship’ by virtue of their investment in a particular country. In educating participants on the variety of citizenship-by-investment programmes, the installation was also meant to challenge our understandings of...
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Activity 30 mins
Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology
History & The Arts

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

...technologies for communicating with the dead were blended together with Western communication technologies. Once posed in this way, the question about action became one of agency and power rather than one of rationality. This was of a piece with my main point which was to argue that scientific-anthropological knowledge about Cargo cults gained much of its currency and...
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Video 20 mins
Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics

...education (with some stops in between). This movement means you learn a great deal. Statistics in Social Services covers areas such as how many children are in care. Where are they? Are any regions giving rise to unusually high instances of referrals? How often are community service orders used and do offenders re-offend? My own passion was education, and so I worked in...
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Article 10 mins