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Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...system coupling” – essentially “a human whose nervous system is linked to a computer”. Warwick himself created such a coupling with medical assistance in 2002, embedding a device in his arm which connected to a part of his nervous system so that it could send signals bidirectionally, communicating with his brain and also the internet. In a series of experiments,...
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For some people, staying awake might help fight depression
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For some people, staying awake might help fight depression

...system – our internal 24-hour biological clock – are thought to help us resist sleep, with these signals being replaced by sleep-promoting ones at night. Our brain cells work in cycles too, becoming increasingly excitable in response to stimuli during wakefulness, with this excitability dissipating when we sleep. But in people with depression and bipolar disorder,...
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Frequently asked questions about COVID-19 relating to cancer
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Frequently asked questions about COVID-19 relating to cancer

...system. Hence, it is highly likely that smokers are at greater risk of more severe COVID-19 symptoms. People regularly in the same environment as smokers also develop lung problems. Especially in children and the elderly, making these ‘second-hand’ smokers also at risk of more severe COVID-19 symptoms. There are several independent studies evaluating the proportion of...
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What counts as professional learning?
Education & Development

What counts as professional learning?

...systems leadership to reduce the number of different groups all trying to solve similar problems in isolation without sharing learning together. The other key thread was around challenging the narratives around professional learning either being online or face to face, synchronous or asynchronous, but instead the increasing value of multi-modal, multi-time and space...
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Shift working – does it change how we think?
Science, Maths & Technology

Shift working – does it change how we think?

...system. Shift working, which requires people to be awake during darkness and asleep during daylight for consecutive days, can have more long-lasting effects on this mechanism. What are the effects of circadian disruption? Persistent sleep deprivation can alter cognition. For example, attention deteriorates, with reaction time slowing and lapses in attention increasing...
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PhotoFit Me
Health, Sports & Psychology

PhotoFit Me

...systems such as PhotoFIT and E-FIT were developed. These enable a witness to construct a picture of the perpetrator’s face visually, by searching through albums of individual features and then putting these together to form a whole face. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? The problem is that we do not recognise faces feature by feature and do not store faces in our memories...
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Viento en popa: upper intermediate Spanish
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Viento en popa: upper intermediate Spanish

...systems to water their crops. Water acquired a religious symbolism in their culture. The idea of living in harmony with nature persists to the present day. Historic open air theatre: Corral de Comedias A documentary about the Corral de Comedias, a famous, historic open-air theatre in Almagro. The actors discuss the origins of their troupe, the special architecture of the...
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Chinese at the tip of your tongue: Culture behind the numbers
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Chinese at the tip of your tongue: Culture behind the numbers

...system, which centres around an eight-sided diagram called bā guà. Bā guà was designed by Chinese philosophers about 5,000 years ago, in which the eight elements represent constant changes in the universe. There are eight diagrams in bā guà representing eight related concepts, such as heaven, lake, fire, water. At the centre of bā guà is the yin and the yang...
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