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Artificial intelligence: implications for social work writing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Artificial intelligence: implications for social work writing

...data so there are also regulatory and legal issues to consider: where any data goes and how it is going to be used now or in the future are key concerns for people using social work services (Haider et al., 2026). Social work is also rooted in challenging inequality and prejudice. There is evidence, however, that current AI systems and tools can reinforce and perpetuate...
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An introduction to geology
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to geology

...analysis and the percentage of different elements can be worked out. But normally it is a combination of methods. There are more indirect routes that don’t look at the elements in the rocks themselves but measure them in the water of streams and rivers. The ‘concentration’ (amount per unit volume or mass) of metals that are found dissolved in stream and river water...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...data and historical examples to support economic arguments...Information technology: a new era?: 1 Technological advancement - Everything that can be invented has been invented. (The Commissioner of the United States Office of Patents, 1899, recommending that his office be abolished, quoted in The Economist, 2000, p. 5) There is nothing now to be foreseen which can...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
From the Sumerians to Shakespeare to Twain: why fart jokes never get old
History & The Arts

From the Sumerians to Shakespeare to Twain: why fart jokes never get old

...analysis – carefully describing its legal, social and scientific dimensions – before concluding that there are multiple species of fart, including “the sonorous and full-toned or rousing fart,” “the double fart,” “the soft fizzing fart,” “the wet fart” and “the sullen wind-bound fart.” The philosophy of fart jokes Clearly, as these examples show,...
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How does Coronation Street bring politics home?
Society, Politics & Law

How does Coronation Street bring politics home?

...analysis of working-class life in the North. The show adopts many of the themes that Hoggart identifies in working-class culture, including the emphasis on the strength of women and the ambivalent class position of pub landlords and others hovering at the boundaries of the petit-bourgeois (or what politicians now like to call ‘aspirational Britain’). After more than a...
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Why did millions march against Trump?
Society, Politics & Law

Why did millions march against Trump?

...analysis continues. In the coming month, we are launching a separate survey to better understand a group social movement scholars are sometimes less inclined to study: people who do not participate in marches on January 21 (there are exceptions to this of course). As social movement scholars know, mobilization is actually a rare occurrence when we consider the range of...
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How can scientists fight the tide of "fake news"?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can scientists fight the tide of "fake news"?

...analysis on how they had outperformed real news on Facebook. Fake news items such as these appeared on regular and social media channels and were swallowed up by millions of people in recent months. On the science front, one example of fake news includes articles downplaying the fact that cigarette smoking and second-hand smoke are bad for human health. Ivan Oransky and...
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Should Houston prepare for more Hurricanes like Harvey?
Nature & Environment

Should Houston prepare for more Hurricanes like Harvey?

...analysis it is hard to put exact numbers on this effect, but on a basic level, wetter skies mean more intense rain. Houston, we have a problem There are other factors that are making this storm worse than others in terms of its impact. Houston is the second-fastest growing city in the US, and the fourth most populous overall. Impervious surface change (1940-2017) in...
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