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‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining

...Open University based in Northern Ireland. I have developed a passion and specialist interest in food allergy research, born out of necessity. Like many parents I speak to, I knew very little about food allergies before my daughter was born with a long list of them, including cow’s milk protein allergy and eggs! At that time, I knew how dangerous nut allergies could be,...
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?

...open-ended survey with athletes, coaches and academics revealed insights which support many of the positive claims associated with AI but also raised questions about safety, ethical practices and the importance of human relationships in coaching. What can AI do? Despite 66 per cent of the research participants expressing reservations about using AI, many of them talked...
Why would you want to make a bee wear a backpack?
Nature & Environment

Why would you want to make a bee wear a backpack?

...course, but the main problem confronting researchers is that bees are very small and difficult to follow as they go about their business. This presents a substantial challenge to tracking their movements and quantifying the major causes and effects of population declines. Current studies tend to count the number of bees that do not return to a hive as lost or dead, for...
What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?
Languages

What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?

...course of the year. It turned out that, within the school year, these five randomly selected kids achieved the greatest gains in academic performance in the class. Obvious evidence for a Pygmalion effect! Ethical experimental research designs to investigate the Golem effect are much more difficult to come up with (Babad, Inbar and Rosenthal circumvented the ethical...
Will Brexit mean London loses its financial dominance?
Money & Business

Will Brexit mean London loses its financial dominance?

...course, the rule of law can improve in Europe so that financial investors feel equally well protected in Paris or Frankfurt. But this process will take years, perhaps decades. In terms of education, markets increasingly require a sophisticated understanding of economics and finance, as well as in-depth knowledge of the legal architecture underlying financial services....
Songs of Love and Hate: On Leonard Cohen
History & The Arts

Songs of Love and Hate: On Leonard Cohen

...is to say that this is a false dichotomy. To quote another of Cohen’s songs of anguished paternity, ‘I’d like to pretend that my father was wrong,/but you don’t want to lie, not to the young’. This is exactly why Cohen’s songs continue to move within his listeners: because they don’t lie about the things that matter. Explore poetry in these free courses...
How should we read Donald Trump's first Presidential speech?
Society, Politics & Law

How should we read Donald Trump's first Presidential speech?

...course again, ending up in an almost prophetic vein with a string of new metaphors: “now arrives the hour of action”, “we stand at the birth of new millennium”, “a new national pride will stir ourselves, lift our sights and heal our divisions”. Trace the progression of these central metaphors and you see an interesting progression. First come the metaphors of...
Will burnt food give you cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will burnt food give you cancer?

...course, your food may not be as tasty, since grilling, baking or toasting produce a lot of molecules that enhance flavour. But if you have a healthy diet with lots of fruit, vegetables and whole grain food, none of which contain acrylamide, things are easier. It is all a question of proportion.[The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation....