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What are the challenges and opportunities of urban artificial intelligence and robotics?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are the challenges and opportunities of urban artificial intelligence and robotics?

...everyday life in our towns and cities. Indeed, cities of multiple intelligences which include both artificial and human ones have arrived...The recent AI Safety Summit and press coverage suggest we need to think carefully about these new urban technologies. On one hand, the benefits of these new automated technologies such as driverless cars and delivery robots may be...
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From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...English regions (59.9%) and the South-East the smallest pro-Brexit majority (51.8%). Every other English region, plus Wales, recorded solid pro-Brexit majorities. Only Scotland (62%), Northern Ireland (55.8%), and a few English and Welsh sub-regions (including South Cambridgeshire and St Albans) and several big cities (including Bristol, Cardiff, Manchester, Liverpool and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introduction to Spanish
Languages

Introduction to Spanish

...English, like ‘to speak’. To conjugate a verb in Spanish, that is to form the right form, the adequate form in the sentence, you need to remove the - ar, - er or - ir ending from the infinitive. What is left is called the stem, which does not change in the vast majority of Spanish verbs. The stem serves as the base to which we add endings. There is a different ending...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...everyday examples. The course takes a look at measurement of length, mass and volume, negative numbers and how to use these, scientific notation (based upon powers of 10), shapes and how to calculate their properties before finally turning to how to construct and read from tables, charts and graphs. It provides a solid foundation for you to continue with studies in any...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences
Science, Maths & Technology

Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences

...everyday life. Personally I would associate maths with wonder, awe and perhaps just a little terror. So when was the last time you unknowingly borrowed the work of a mathematician in your everyday life? If you are reading this article then you are at the computer: designed and programmed by mathematicians. Perhaps you like the cinema. The largest employer of...
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Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds
Society, Politics & Law

Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds

...everyday risks of human presence. The seeds in the seed vault are stored in black box conditions much like a bank vault. The seed bank provides the infrastructure but neither it, nor the Norwegian government, is allowed to access the seeds themselves. They remain the property of the depositing country. For all of its short history, the direction of travel of plant genetic...
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The distance between us
History & The Arts

The distance between us

...everyday discourse is suggested by one of Presser’s participants, who, perhaps unconsciously, justified her own meat-eating with reference to The Lion King’s ideology: ‘The circle of life constitutes that some animals are bred to be nourishment’ (cited in Presser, 2013, p.57). Towards a revolution So what about the alternative resolution of the power paradox: to...
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Some merits of Manchester
History & The Arts

Some merits of Manchester

...English cathedral is without. The morning was fitly dim and chill, and one could move about in the vague all the more comfortably for the absence of that appeal of thronging monuments which harasses and bewilders the visitor in other cathedrals; one could really give one's self up to serious emotion, and not be sordidly and rapaciously concerned with objects of interest....
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