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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...
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...
A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Education & Development

A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu

...social activist at St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town...It was a grey, damp Boxing day morning 2021 in England and the very sad news arrived of the death at age 90 of Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu earlier that morning in Cape Town after a full and active life of great moral conviction and compassion for humanity. Online messaging technology, not available at the time of...
Climate change: island life in a volatile world
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change: island life in a volatile world

...Social Sciences...Climate change: island life in a volatile world: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand how the world is in the process of ‘being made’, right down to the earth beneath our feet consider how islands are shaped by a dynamic relationship between territories and flows show how human life is entangled with...
Understanding the AFD: How to make sense of the far-right populists
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding the AFD: How to make sense of the far-right populists

...work for Goldman Sachs. She speaks fluent Mandarin and spent six years in China writing a PhD on the Chinese pension system. She is certainly not the archetypal leader of a far-right party. At the big table Now that it will sit in the federal parliament, the AfD needs learn how to deal with the challenges of real world political life inside the Bundestag. It has plenty of...
Electrochemical Machining (ECM)
Science, Maths & Technology

Electrochemical Machining (ECM)

...on the principle of anodic metal dissolution by electrical energy. An electrolyte medium separates the tool (cathode) from the electrically conductive metal workpiece (anode), creating an electrolytic cell. A high amperage, low voltage current is passed through the cell, selectively dissolving away the material to be removed. Produces distortionless, burr-free components
Redundancy - what are your next steps?
Education & Development

Redundancy - what are your next steps?

...work life balance you had longed for or even change career direction completely. Remember redundancy isn’t personal, but how you respond to it is. This article includes links to podcasts on how to prepare for, manage and come through the other side of redundancy. You can find out about support that may be available to you, advice on finance, wellbeing and career...
Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments
Education & Development

Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments

...work. Students who use online translation tools miss out on the actual learning potential that is an important part of carefully crafted assessments. [A graphic of a globe with the word translate in many different languages over the different countries] So how can we create assessment tasks for language learners in times of digital machine translation tools? It seems that...