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Darwin and language diversity
Science, Maths & Technology

Darwin and language diversity

...work of Charles Darwin and the impact his ideas about evolution continue to have on today’s world. © British Council 2009... Darwin and language diversity A short introduction to this album. A Darwinian approach to language What happens when you apply Darwin to the development of language? Mark Pagel and Quentin Atkinson explore the parallels. Conservation and...
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How to become an ethical researcher
Education & Development

How to become an ethical researcher

...working with children and young people. It identifies different reflexive considerations for adult researchers as a continuous journey of assent/consent from inception of research projects through to the dissemination of results. The resource complements the Becoming an ethical researcher OpenLearn course and connects with The Open University website Our voices: research...
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The US Presedential Election 2016: The first GOP debate
Society, Politics & Law

The US Presedential Election 2016: The first GOP debate

...Social Security and Medicare without raising taxes or cutting benefits. The Fox debate, however, will likely be remembered for one significant moment: Donald Trump’s warning that he might run as an independent candidate in 2016. That spells big long-term trouble for the GOP. As an independent, third-party candidate, Trump would have the money, the flamboyance, and the...
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Understanding Alice
History & The Arts

Understanding Alice

...social and imaginative world Carroll and his young friend inhabited in and around Oxford. For instance, during the Mad Tea-Party the Dormouse tells a story about three little sisters, Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie, who live at the bottom of a treacle-well. As Martin Gardner points out in The Annotated Alice, the sisters’ names are coded references to the three Liddle...
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Egyptian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Egyptian mathematics

...work out what things the Egyptologist has done. Do you yet feel in a position to begin to understand what the Egyptian scribe was doing? (Do not worry if your answer to the last question is ‘no’!) Discussion You should have been able to notice, just from the look of the page, that it has three sections. The top one is a hand-written copy of the papyrus text itself,...
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Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis
Society, Politics & Law

Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis

...social economy. It is rather a plea to voters to endorse him, and his choice to surrender, as a lesser evil. The Conversation asked nine leading academics what their questions were for a man who describes himself as an “accidental economist”. His answers reveal regrets about his own approach during a dramatic 2015, a withering assessment of France’s power in Europe,...
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Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?

...work directly with AI when, as Couzens (n.d.) states, they predominantly rely on algorithms, indicating that the role AI plays in sports is not always clear. So, what do we mean when we talk about AI in sports and what can it do? [Wooden blocks with symbol of digital disruption concept on blue background] ‘A branch of computer science that aims to create machines and...
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Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing
History & The Arts

Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing

...social class has its own vocabulary, and they change year on year, and I think one of the jobs of a playwright is to listen to those and keep up to date with those. I think on the whole you instinctively listen to the different rhythms of the way that people speak. Some people do speak in a more kind of flowing, mellow kind of a way, and some people have a more kind of...
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