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How can statistics bring dead languages back to life?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can statistics bring dead languages back to life?

...changes in the statistics. “It’s more than an averaging process, it’s a continuum from one sound to the other,” adds Aston, who is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). “At each stage, we can turn the shape back into sound to hear how the word has changed.” Rather than reconstructing written forms of ancient words, the...
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57 genders (and none for me?) - Part two
Society, Politics & Law

57 genders (and none for me?) - Part two

...change which allows users to pick from more gender options than 'male' and 'female'. In this concluding part she points to some of the problems. [A cartoon pigeon contemplates a collection of gender filing pigeonholes] So what are the problems with Facebook's new ways of capturing gender? Several people have asked whether there is a cynical aspect to the change, given...
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Why do call centre staff use your name all the time, Chris?
Money & Business

Why do call centre staff use your name all the time, Chris?

...Changing society – changing language At the height of their expansion, at the turn of the millennium, 38% of all new jobs created in Britain were in call centres. Improvements in global IT infrastructure, deregulation of trade and the reduced cost of data transfer means call centres have become a hallmark of contemporary society. The replacement of face-to-face...
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A sport transformed: Safety in motor-racing since 1969
Health, Sports & Psychology

A sport transformed: Safety in motor-racing since 1969

...changes to the sport...It is April 1969 and the forthcoming Belgian Grand Prix has been cancelled following a boycott of the race by the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association, an association made up of the best racing drivers in the World. Their boycott follows concerns that requests to install more crash barriers at the circuit in Spa have not been implemented and makes the...
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International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

International Relations

...change possible in international politics? Does it matter to international politics if states are democratic or not? And what is the importance of economic change, or gender relations to international politics? In the following seven films, some of the world's leading experts on international relations explore what determines how states and their agents behave in a...
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Signposts for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Signposts for Work

...changes to your own working life, whether as an employer or employee, self-employed or business owner, or currently without paid work. However, these challenges also present opportunities to reflect, reset priorities, and find new and meaningful ways forward. The changing workplace Even before the Coronavirus pandemic of 2020/21, workplaces were already undergoing...
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Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum

...changes in the political landscape during the past year and Scotland's future...[illustration of scotland] One year on from the September 18 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum and Scotland – and the UK – are rather different places when it comes to the political landscapes that characterise the countries of these islands. The 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum...
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Simple coding
Digital & Computing

Simple coding

...change them right here. Wherever ‘Run Python’ appears we recommend that you open the link in a new tab and work from there. Go ahead, click ‘Run’ (the ► icon) to execute the following program (I’ll explain it later). You should see a message showing the output of running the code. You can also change the code. Click with the mouse next to the 7 on the first...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs