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Becoming a superhero: what are the limits of human performance?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Becoming a superhero: what are the limits of human performance?

...technology in cinematography combined with breath-taking special effects, the recent superhero movie Deadpool brought to life one of these categories, altered humans. In Deadpool, Wade Wilson is a former Special Forces operative who now works as a mercenary having being transformed into Deadpool by evil scientist Ajax. Demonstrating further that the superhero phenomena is...
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Article 15 mins
Working on your own mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Working on your own mathematics

...Education and Mathematics...Working on your own mathematics: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: reflect in depth on aspects of mathematics learning, whether personally directly concerned with mathematics teaching or simply interested in issues of mathematics education examine established views about existing practice in a critical way...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
World-Changing Women: Emily Davies
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Emily Davies

...education was fundamental in improving a woman's place in society and strived for equality. Read her story here... Emily Davies England 1860 - 1921 Higher Education [Emily Davies image] Emily Davies portrait by Rudolph Lehmann, 1880 In mid nineteenth-century England the world of higher education, like many others, was closed to women. Many people opposed the idea of...
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Article 5 mins
Designing interactive systems for dogs
Digital & Computing

Designing interactive systems for dogs

...technology, for example the kind we have in our homes (washing machine, telephone, light switches, etc.). However, anyone would struggle and underperform if they had to use devices that are not designed with one’s physical and psychological characteristics in mind, which is why designing interactive systems from a user-centred perspective is so important, particularly...
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Article 5 mins
Messaging apps – staying connected and in control with mobile messaging
Languages

Messaging apps – staying connected and in control with mobile messaging

...technologies such as WhatsApp and other messaging apps are now deeply embedded into many people’s daily lives. Mobile conversations interweave in complex ways with offline activities, interrupting and being interrupted by what we’re doing in the real world. Phone messaging adds another layering to our already busy lifestyles, both facilitating offline tasks and...
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Article 5 mins
Asa Briggs and new maps of learning
History & The Arts

Asa Briggs and new maps of learning

...Education enjoyed a huge expansion during the 1960s with new universities and polytechnics being opened and many older universities expanding their numbers. One man, Asa Briggs, played significant roles at the first of the new universities of the decade, the University of Sussex located just outside Brighton, which opened in 1961, and the last university to open in that...
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Article 5 mins
Download your free Matrix of Modern Life poster
Science, Maths & Technology

Download your free Matrix of Modern Life poster

...technology - presented in the inimitable Bang style...This print item is now download only [Matrix of Modern Life] Celebrate Bang by downloading your free 'Matrix of Modern Life' poster. From the Large Hadron Collider to your microwave oven, jumbo jet to fuel cells, the poster shows the colourful connections between science and technology. All presented in the big, bold...
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Article 5 mins
Sensory augmentation devices
History & The Arts

Sensory augmentation devices

...technology help you to play a new musical instrument? The E-Sense research programme is experimenting with novel augmentation devices to explore sensory, bodily and cognitive extension. In this interdisciplinary research, philosophy and art combine with various flavours of computing: ubiquitous; wearable; and physical. We take a look at how E-Sense's speculative...
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Video 8 mins