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In-car technology: are we being sold a false sense of security?
Digital & Computing

In-car technology: are we being sold a false sense of security?

...law allows them to do so providing their hands are on the wheel. This implies it is a safe alternative. But research clearly shows that the driving behaviour and crash risk of a phone-using driver (whether that is hand-held or hands-free) is similar to, and sometimes worse than, that of a drunk driver. Our research has shown that phone use carries a significant cost to a...
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If Infinity Wars had peer review instead of script editors
Science, Maths & Technology

If Infinity Wars had peer review instead of script editors

...laws of thermodynamics. There is no algorithm presented in the Methods that describes the selection process for who gets to live or die. To make this a random process is not only intellectually lazy, but it also contradicts Thanos’s claim that his motivations are benevolent. What about worlds or ecosystems that have already achieved the balance he hopes to create; would...
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Reflecting on Race at The Open University
Education & Development

Reflecting on Race at The Open University

...Law. The late Andrea Levy, an acclaimed author who explored topics related to British Jamaicans, and how they negotiate racial, cultural and national identities, was put forward by the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies. Evelyn Boyd Granville, the second African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from an American University, was put forward...
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How are social workers portrayed in the media?
Languages

How are social workers portrayed in the media?

...Law and Order, 2010] Or was it about him seducing the nanny? [Reign, 2015] It seems that for TV scriptwriters these characters are viewed as female first and professional second. A way forward It’s not all doom and gloom, however. Recently some good initiatives have emerged to encourage a broader range of news interest in the profession. The BASW Social Work Journalism...
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Understanding Female Genital Mutilation and its impact across the lifespan podcast
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding Female Genital Mutilation and its impact across the lifespan podcast

...law, the police, educators (from primary to higher education), community workers, commissioners, and the wider public. It enables a level of awareness and understanding about this hidden illegal practice, the implications for the people affected, how it can be prevented, key educational requirements for professionals and the gaps in service provision across the UK and...
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Erzberger: Negotiating the Armistice for Germany
History & The Arts

Erzberger: Negotiating the Armistice for Germany

...law which cleared anyone who had committed a political murder in the Weimar Republic – including Erzberger’s murderers who no longer had to answer for their crime. However, after the Second World War, the two assassins were arrested by the US occupying forces in Heidelberg in 1945, tried in 1946 - and acquitted on the basis of the 1933 law. This decision was met with...
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Europe’s Borders in Question
Society, Politics & Law

Europe’s Borders in Question

...law. But there’s a catch: you first have to reach a member’s territory in order to claim it. You have to be on the ‘inside’ looking out, not on the ‘outside’ looking in. Walls and fences, checkpoints and border controls, are erected for a reason: they place people on the ‘outside’. [A barbed-wire fence dividing Hungary and Serbia] As such, there seems to...
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You and your world: Introducing the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

You and your world: Introducing the social sciences

...laws or rules. They typically share many similar cultural values and expectations of each other. However, in some highly multicultural societies there may also be many cultural differences. The social world by contrast refers to the idea that people’s lives and society, more generally, are shaped by a variety of relationships, cultures, communities and institutions....
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs