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We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?
Science, Maths & Technology

We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?

...course, are hardly new. Over the last few decades we’ve had industrial devices that assemble cars, vacuum our floors and shunt stuff around warehouses. But the 2010s have seen a rise in the attention paid to robots of the kind that most of us still think of as robots: autonomous machines that can sense their surroundings, respond, move, do things and, above all,...
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EPQs: why give a presentation?
Education & Development

EPQs: why give a presentation?

...language. Thinking of them as knowledgeable means she would have been prepared for some interesting, and possibly tricky questions. Visualising them as interested in the future means she would have included some material on new developments in research, and thought about the kind of questions they might ask about future work. The EPQ audience Who is the audience for your...
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Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision

...free, because you’ve already shot it, but I would always say it’s never used as padding, it’s used to propel a story and as long as you are accurate in the way you’re portraying it and you’re not mixing it with new stuff and pretending it was all happening at the same time or you are using it in its relevant context, and if actually the world has changed since...
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Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...language, Dutch, the name for TB traditionally is tering, which etymologically refers to the smell of tar.” Weetjens also knew that these rats are superlative sniffers. More than that, he understood how to breed them and how to train them, and his track record of using this species to save lives, albeit in a very different setting, was well-established. [Brown rat] As a...
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'Keeping it Real': The Experiences of Black Youth beyond Criminal (In)Justice Statistics
Society, Politics & Law

'Keeping it Real': The Experiences of Black Youth beyond Criminal (In)Justice Statistics

...course in the most troubling of cases temporary exclusions would in a short space of time escalate and become a permanent exclusion. ….got chucked out of school when I was 12 so I haven’t really got any [referring to his lack of GCSE’s], they sent me to a school, like a naughty school, it’s called a naughty school and I never attended there neither, I wasn’t...
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The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable
Nature & Environment

The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable

...language of media refers to an ‘invasion’ emphasising that to humans they are in many ways unwanted refugees, immigrants fleeing from disaster and heading into a hostile world that does not understand them nor want them. The likely outcome is that that the bears will be driven away, relocated or killed. Such hostility to the plight of animals at risk of starvation in...
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Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic

...courses and qualifications. On 22 June 2022, OU Economics hosted a seminar with Dr Sara Stevano of SOAS, University of London, and Dr Michal Nahman of The University of the West of England, and co-curator of the ‘This Is Essential Work’ online exhibition. The event was chaired by Susan Newman, Professor in Economics at The Open University and co-curator of the ‘This...
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I had cancer - now stop supporting just me
Health, Sports & Psychology

I had cancer - now stop supporting just me

...courses and qualifications. What’s it like to be a teenager with cancer? What changes? Does anything change? We’ve all had questions about cancer. It’s scary. And unfamiliar to most. When did you get cancer? I was sixteen. It was my sixth and final year of high school. Pressures and prospects on the horizon. At that time there’s a certain degree of planning that...
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