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Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye
Health, Sports & Psychology

Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye

...accounts in the media repeatedly reinforced, how important these formal and informal rituals are for how we grieve. The absence of these important aspects may have a significant impact on the health and wellbeing of the bereaved. We still don’t know how these ongoing restrictions will impact on the long-term support needs of individuals and communities. But academics at...
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Article 20 mins
Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition
Society, Politics & Law

Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition

...accounts of the barbarous nature of the slave trade on his wider travels around the Empire. By 1789 William Wilberforce had initiated an anti-slavery abolitionist campaign in Parliament, and while this in the long term proved decisive, the French Revolution of the same year and the slave rebellion in the French colony of Haiti initially poured cold water on this idea. Yet...
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Article 20 mins
Artificial intelligence
Digital & Computing

Artificial intelligence

...accounts for some of our abilities. So that, for instance, our memories are not perfect - we don't remember everything, and that explains some of the things that we are able to do. And when you produce a perfect system that does whatever you tell it to, and stores every piece of information you've ever got, you can't produce the same kind of behaviour". On the difference...
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Article 15 mins
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...account, and medical practitioners can use pharmaceutical drugs as part of their toolkit when treating someone with mental health problems. Scientific research in this field often looks at the structures and the physical processes going on within the brain. So this approach is often referred to as being based on a ‘bio-medical’ model of mental health...Making sense of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...accounts for around 70% of the current total mass-energy density of the Universe and may be characterised in terms of the cosmological constant, represented by the symbol normal cap lamda . This plays a key role in the evolution of the Universe, as you will see in Section 4 of this course. The main observational evidence for dark energy is the observed accelerating...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...accounts. The ability to control discourse can be a vital source of power. As Zareen Zaidi and colleagues (2021, p. 74) argue, not only government institutions exert power within society, it is also maintained through individuals – and in terms of racism this comes from ‘top down’ policies and ‘bottom up’ from individuals within these systems. Stephen Ball...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
On-screen graphic design: The early years of television
Science, Maths & Technology

On-screen graphic design: The early years of television

...accounts for 100’s of hours worth of television every week) was disregarded for such a long time – even when departments were finally set up they were considered experimental. Television is also is also a rapidly changing medium that is constantly benefiting from technological improvements. Although superficially beneficial to the graphic designer, they become...
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Article 15 mins
Developing a research question in International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Developing a research question in International Relations

...account for the behaviour of states in international relations? Descriptive Comparative Exploratory Evaluative Explanatory a. Descriptive b. Comparative c. Exploratory d. Evaluative e. Explanatory The correct answer is d. Answer This is an ‘evaluative’ question. It looks to evaluate the utility of an IR theory – in this case, whether neorealism can theoretically...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs