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Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"

...humans. Sacks wrote what he called ‘romantic science’. Not romantic in the sense of romantic love, but romantic in the sense of the romantic poets, who used narrative to describe the subtleties of human nature, often in contrast to the enlightenment values of quantification and rationalism. In this light, romantic science would seem to be a contradiction, but Sacks...
A very brief history of AI
Digital & Computing

A very brief history of AI

...human beings. Wherever ELIZA was demonstrated, it caused a sensation; Weizenbaum told a story of how one of his co-workers engaged with the program: My secretary, who had watched me work on the program for many months and therefore surely knew it to be merely a computer program, started conversing with it. After only a few interchanges with it, she asked me to leave the...
Happy Saint Andrew's Day
Society, Politics & Law

Happy Saint Andrew's Day

...resources on Scotland's culture, society and heritage. ...[St Andrew the apostle ] On 30th November it is Saint Andrew's Day, it is also called the Feast of Saint Andrew or Andermas. This is a time when we celebrate the patron saint of Scotland, so why not learn more about Scotland's riveting political and natural landscapes with our broad range of learning resources?...
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...human capacity. We have to get over this old conception of academic, non-academic, abstract, theoretical, vocational, and see it for what it is: a myth. Second, we have to recognise that most great learning happens in groups; the collaboration is the stuff of growth. If we atomise people, and separate them, and judge them separately, we form a kind of disjunction between...
Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...humans have largely designed and manufactured, and is supported by an amazing infrastructure of transport, communication and many other services that we take for granted. Without them, for example, you wouldn't be reading this page or studying this OpenLearn course. The technological basis of our society has undergone major transformations in the last two centuries and...
My abortion experience: Daisy's story
Health, Sports & Psychology

My abortion experience: Daisy's story

...resources: Videos from BPAS (British Pregnancy Advisory Service) including descriptions of all the different contraceptive methods, and what to expect with different abortion methods Hannah Whitton videos by a young person for young people on sex and relationships. NHS adverts about contraception and sexual health Chlamydia worth talking about Contraception worth talking...
My abortion experience: Sienna's story
Health, Sports & Psychology

My abortion experience: Sienna's story

...resources: Videos from BPAS (British Pregnancy Advisory Service) including descriptions of all the different contraceptive methods, and what to expect with different abortion methods Hannah Whitton videos by a young person for young people on sex and relationships. NHS adverts about contraception and sexual health Chlamydia worth talking about Contraception worth talking...
My abortion experience: Lily's story
Health, Sports & Psychology

My abortion experience: Lily's story

...resources: Videos from BPAS (British Pregnancy Advisory Service) including descriptions of all the different contraceptive methods, and what to expect with different abortion methods Hannah Whitton videos by a young person for young people on sex and relationships. NHS adverts about contraception and sexual health Chlamydia worth talking about Contraception worth talking...