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Someone’s attacking our connection to the internet - part one
Science, Maths & Technology

Someone’s attacking our connection to the internet - part one

...working for the networking company Cisco, warned that more than half a million routers in 54 countries had been infected by malware known as VPNFilter. Routers allow computers on local area networks to connect to the internet; you will have a small router (properly known as a modem router switch) at home to link your computer to a phone socket; and it is precisely these...
Mosquitoes & Malaria
Science, Maths & Technology

Mosquitoes & Malaria

...works. Ellen will need to cover one of Kate’s arms with the repellent and leave the other arm clear, so she can show that only the arm without the repellent gets bitten. But that leaves another problem, mosquitoes carry diseases that they pick up from biting other people, so Ellen needs to raise mosquitoes from birth that haven’t bitten anybody yet and so will be...
The OU meets Pink Floyd
History & The Arts

The OU meets Pink Floyd

...work and I can hear myself absolutely speeding up beyond belief. SEAN Really? NICK You know, the track starts at one speed and ends up flat out. It’s almost as though it’s a race. SEAN Any particular tracks you care to mention? NICK No, I’m certainly not going to. END OF INTERVIEW Image acknowledgements for the audio stills 00:00 - 00:09: Image of Nick Mason -...
Is it ever morally acceptable to visit a mass murder site?
History & The Arts

Is it ever morally acceptable to visit a mass murder site?

...Far from being pristine and rational, actual psychologies are messy, which puts a limit on the extent to which morality can be straightened out. Thinking about what you think of the two tours might help you work out on which side of this divide you fall. Find out more on why people celebrate Jack the Ripper Interested in Philosophy? Try our interactives and free course...
Spiritualism, stigma and prejudice: what is everyone so scared of?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Spiritualism, stigma and prejudice: what is everyone so scared of?

...work quite happily as a nurse, a fire-fighter, or a teacher. A growing religion Spiritualism as a religion started in the United States in the late 1840s. The first Spiritualist church in the UK opened in 1853 in Keighley, Yorkshire, with the first UK national conference of Spiritualists taking place in Manchester in 1890. Although a relatively young religion,...
Hitching a ride on an asteroid to travel back to the birth of the Solar System
Science, Maths & Technology

Hitching a ride on an asteroid to travel back to the birth of the Solar System

...work out its chemical composition and when it formed. All of these factors are useful in figuring out the origin of rocks. But without knowing exactly where the rock came from, would you have a complete picture about its 4.5-billion-year history? Could you tell if it was a piece of a much larger geological structure, or whether instead, it was a rare type of rock in the...
Economic incentives for countries to decarbonise
Money & Business

Economic incentives for countries to decarbonise

...works. We don’t have perfect foresight, or complete understanding. We often don’t even behave rationally! In the real world there are inefficiencies (e.g. unemployment) and these can be reduced through government action, for instance by incentivising new green industries. New ‘simulation-based’ approaches do not assume optimisation or equilibrium, but instead...
The rural dimension – after rundale
OpenLearn Ireland

The rural dimension – after rundale

...working in cities in North America such as Boston and New York, than on income from agriculture. This represents another set of interdependencies within a wider geographical context. The apparently isolated farm in the West of Ireland remained far from independent. Generally, the families were large, but only one son could inherit the farm. There were few opportunities...