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Doctor Who: Is time travel possible?
Science, Maths & Technology

Doctor Who: Is time travel possible?

...energy nuclei originating from the depths of space) that strike atoms in the Earth’s upper atmosphere. If the number of muons liberated in the upper atmosphere is measured at the top of a mountain, then knowing the lifetime of a muon and the fact that they are travelling close to the speed of light, it’s possible to calculate the proportion of muons that should...
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TOTEM LATAMAT: an Indigenous reminder we are all part of the ecosystem
Nature & Environment

TOTEM LATAMAT: an Indigenous reminder we are all part of the ecosystem

...energy. Technology, he claims, will get us out of this. However, in common with Patricia Fara’s review, I believe that scientific enquiry and its technological consequences are not necessarily “progressive” at all. “Progress” is a huge contributor to the crisis we face: it is the positive image that Western powers have invoked in order to justify colonialism,...
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Irish Women’s Poetry: the Next Generation
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: the Next Generation

...energy and poetic force, summoning riddles and fairytales for the empowerment of women. Traynor’s ‘Onion Poem’ from Pit Lullabies demonstrates her acute awareness of female rites of passage and often they are misrepresented within power structures: in this case, the catholic school she attended where in the yearly assembly girls were addressed by nuns who compared...
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20 things you might not know about Belfast
History & The Arts

20 things you might not know about Belfast

...energy came in 1854. 6. Tourists spent over £430 million in Belfast in 2022 Every year, over 9.5 million visitors arrive. They support over 17 thousand tourist jobs across the city area. What to do once they're there? Here's an amazingly cute idea... 7. Belfast Zoo is home to the only Goodfellow's tree-kangaroos in the United Kingdom and Ireland The zoo is only one of 22...
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Back to the Future: Is time travel possible?
Science, Maths & Technology

Back to the Future: Is time travel possible?

...energy nuclei originating from the depths of space) that strike atoms in the Earth’s upper atmosphere. If the number of muons liberated in the upper atmosphere is measured at the top of a mountain, then knowing the lifetime of a muon and the fact that they are travelling close to the speed of light, it’s possible to calculate the proportion of muons that should...
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COVID Chronicles from the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

COVID Chronicles from the Margins

...energy and sense of threat, that cannot be seen but are nevertheless conveyed. Transcript This beautiful, evocative video film, created by a group of Syrian refugees living in Malaysia, is framed around Mwaffaq’s poem to Mother Earth. Bringing together reflections on multiple overlapping crisis around inequality, migration, health and environment, the film takes us on a...
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Enceladus: A habitable ice world?
Science, Maths & Technology

Enceladus: A habitable ice world?

...energy source, and Enceladus meets all three of these requirements. Looking at extreme environments such as these allows us to investigate theories into the origin of life and whether or not life elsewhere is possible. Ideally, we’d like to know more about what is in the ocean. However, it is currently impossible to drill several kilometres through ice and limitations...
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Large language models - the chatty computer
Digital & Computing

Large language models - the chatty computer

...energy. However, even all this computer power is not enough; a good part of ChatGPT’s success lies in the use of humans. Even after the computerised training process was complete, ChatGPT often produced rambling, incoherent or irrelevant results. People were brought in to fine-tune its responses. They taught ChatGPT how to answer certain types of queries, to structure...
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