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Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator
Languages

Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator

...attention. The caudate isn’t a specialist language area; neuroscientists know it for its role in processes like decision making and trust. It’s like an orchestral conductor, coordinating activity across many brain regions to produce stunningly complex behaviours. Which means the results of the interpretation studies appear to tie into one of the biggest ideas to...
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An appreciative approach to inquiry
Education & Development

An appreciative approach to inquiry

...attention in the last decade across a range of fields. We have adapted the appreciative inquiry model to provide an approach to educational practitioner inquiry or scholarship. Welcome to Session 1 of An appreciative approach to inquiry. You will start by considering the questions: What is meant by inquiry and how does that relate to you? How is inquiry shaped in...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
The power of infographics in research dissemination
Education & Development

The power of infographics in research dissemination

...attention-grabbing web pages. Tim Wu’s The Attention Merchants, reviewed in the article ‘Tim Wu: “The internet is like the classic story of the party that went sour”’ (Naughton, 2017), gives a particularly critical account of this situation. As a consequence, it is ever more challenging for researchers to get their research findings noticed in the face of a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Turning rebellion into money: The upstarts who sell out
Money & Business

Turning rebellion into money: The upstarts who sell out

...attention recently. First, the firm blamed “trigger-happy” corporate lawyers for sending out “cease and desist” letters to small independent bars to protect its trademarking. Now the co-founders have announced they have sold 22% of the company to a US private equity firm, valuing BrewDog at a surprising £1 billion. The two founders are now reported to be around...
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Laibach and think of North Korea: The subversive political message of the Slovenian band
History & The Arts

Laibach and think of North Korea: The subversive political message of the Slovenian band

...attention than they've had in the rest of their thirty-five year career combined. But is the casual dismissal of their music as fascists missing something deeper in their art?...The 70th anniversary of the Korean peninsula’s liberation from colonial Japan is being celebrated in Pyongyang with two concerts by the Slovenian rock band Laibach. This will be the first...
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Haven't we been told there's water on Mars before?
Science, Maths & Technology

Haven't we been told there's water on Mars before?

...attention turned to the much juicier topic of liquid water on Mars, with the discovery by Mariner 9 of ancient river channels that must have been carved by flowing water. These channel systems were evidently very ancient (billions of years old), so although they showed an abundance of liquid water in the past they had no bearing on the occurrence of water at the present...
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Rugby: A game of risk and reward
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rugby: A game of risk and reward

...attention in recent weeks it is important to note that any sport which involves movement and force can cause spinal injury, like football, water sports, wrestling, rugby, and ice hockey (Mishra, 2010). Although the statistics were informative as a qualitative researcher I wanted to explore this risk through people’s thoughts, feelings and emotions. In other words the...
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Scotland Votes 2016: Campaign snapshots
Society, Politics & Law

Scotland Votes 2016: Campaign snapshots

...attention to the Scottish election, which will be held on May 5. The result certainly looks a foregone conclusion: the ruling SNP will form a majority government for another five years. But look more closely and there’s plenty to say – both about the broad sweep of Scottish politics and the current campaign: 1. SNP arc is almost complete [Nicola Sturgeon] Nicola...
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