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Could your brain activity be used in evidence against you?
Society, Politics & Law

Could your brain activity be used in evidence against you?

...based evidence might unduly influence juries and prejudice the fair outcome of trials. They found concerns that neuroscientific evidence may adversely influence trials could be overstated. In their experiment, mock jurors were influenced by the existence of brain based evidence, whether it indicated guilty knowledge or the absence of it. But the strength of other evidence...
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Sand casting
Science, Maths & Technology

Sand casting

...based alloys. Aluminium/silicon alloys are the most castable alloys, with the eutectic composition (12% silicon) the most favourable. A major problem with aluminium castings is the relatively high shrinkage that occurs during solidification. Copper-based alloys are sand cast with additions of zinc, tin and lead. When casting cast iron, the moulding material has added coal...
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Fracking: Is it possible to persuade the public that the benefits outweigh the risks
Nature & Environment

Fracking: Is it possible to persuade the public that the benefits outweigh the risks

...based claims leading to higher levels of concern or fear. Information becomes even more important when you consider that people who feel an activity is bad are more likely to automatically judge the associated risks as high and benefits as low (based on their initial emotion-based response). But this relationship can be altered with information. Where information reduces...
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How can digital books support children’s learning?
Education & Development

How can digital books support children’s learning?

...based criteria, lower than that on paper. This has direct consequences for children’s learning. In our recent meta-analysis of previously published research on digital picture books for young children aged 1–8 years, we concluded that, without the right design, digital books are inferior to print versions. Low-quality digital books interfere with children’s...
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I run mock trials to research the legal system. The bias shown in Channel 4’s The Jury: Murder Trial is a very real problem
Society, Politics & Law

I run mock trials to research the legal system. The bias shown in Channel 4’s The Jury: Murder Trial is a very real problem

...Based on my research, and that of other academics interested in juror and jury decision making, it is clear that the UK’s jury system is far from perfect. [Oil Pastels and ink drawing of jurors consisting of six African American women, one white woman and one white man] How jurors use stories What was clear to me watching the programme was how jurors used stories to...
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Perceptions of English literature
History & The Arts

Perceptions of English literature

...of The Open University course A230 Reading and studying literature... How English is English literature? Can we still consider English literature English? What is English literature? Authors discuss the literature they were exposed to as children. New voices During the wave of independence many writers from the de-colonised countries began to have their work published....
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Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...la acera de enfrente, and combinations of these like, for example, loca is quite a well-known expression to refer to a, to a gay man. Um, you can also have variants like musculoca, which is basically a ‘muscle Mary’, as you would say it in English. Interviewer: Well, it’s interesting because it looks like all these groups that have their own code also have a term to...
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10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...based on evidence from two eyewitnesses. Their misidentification led to an innocent person being imprisoned for most of their adult life whilst the real perpetrator walked free. Jerry Miller’s case was the 200th case the US Innocence Project successfully appealed using DNA evidence. Eye witness identifications played a role in 77% of these wrongful convictions." To find...
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