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What can lucid dreaming teach us about consciousness?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What can lucid dreaming teach us about consciousness?

...code between lucid dreamer participants and researchers during Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, when dreaming typically takes place. Before going to sleep, the participant and the researcher agree on a specific eye movement (for example two movements left then two movements right) that participants make to signal that they are lucid. By using this approach, studies have...
Why is ball tampering such a big deal for cricket?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is ball tampering such a big deal for cricket?

...Code of Conduct. In this case, Smith has been banned for one match and fined his match fee. Bancroft, who was caught with a piece of yellow sticky tape that he was attempting to use to tamper with the ball, has also been fined most of his fee and issued three demerit points. Can we talk about this? pic.twitter.com/cmpRrOArgD — Dale Steyn (@DaleSteyn62) March 24, 2018...
Ever Wondered About... Eggs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ever Wondered About... Eggs?

...code (e.g. UK) and a set of numbers which identifies the farm from which the egg originated. A hen starts laying eggs at 19 weeks of age and, on average, lays about 259 eggs a year. As she grows older she produces larger eggs. The largest chicken egg on record was nearly 12 oz, measuring 12 ¼” around. The largest recorded number of yolks in one chicken egg is nine. The...
Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce

...codes. As with the rope trick, the car wash is a clear, everyday image. At the same time, it stands for complex ideas about public and private lives. [Photograph: inside a car wash] ... and between expression and suppression ‘“Say nothing” is still a powerful rule in Northern Ireland’, Bryce tells Alex Pryce: it’s difficult to be outspoken in tight-knit...
What do volcanoes tell us about the possibility of life on Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What do volcanoes tell us about the possibility of life on Mars?

...coded topography. NASA/USGS/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G Neukum) This is exactly what’s happened at Olympus Mons, and indeed several of its neighbours, which means these volcanoes are unlikely to be extinct. They may even be able to squeeze out some lava again in the future, although we might have to wait a few million years to see it happen. In search of small volcanoes But...
Discovering music through listening
History & The Arts

Discovering music through listening

...code will recognise the pattern you were asked to transcribe as representing the letter ‘V’ and this was famously adopted by the Allied forces in the Second World War as a powerful symbol of the war effort, reflecting Beethoven’s own belief in personal liberty. [This is a photograph of Winston Churchill] Figure 7 British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill giving...
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...simple to release the teaching content, since the material often required reversioning, rights clearance, or some form of adaptation. But nevertheless the initiative didn’t rely on individual educators engaging with complicated standards and adopting a new set of practices. Instead, OpenCourseWare built on existing practice by taking existing course materials and...
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An introduction to web applications architecture
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to web applications architecture

...Simple client–server application In this client–server model, many clients can connect to the server application and request information about books. The server has to process these requests and send the response to the client that originated the request and not to any other client. As long as the network is working well and the server can keep up with responding to...